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Cruise Control

Yup! He’s in ‘cruise control’….and there’s NOTHING stopping him now!!!

It’s amazing, watching them go from sitting with no assistance to crawling to standing on their own and progressing to walking and aren’t they the most independent little things you could ever want??!! And watching their personalities emerge each day – now there’s the fun part!

So…now that they’ve gained this new found independence, you have to look at safety…..these little tykes will hold onto anything and cruise away! What we have to ensure is that the pieces they hold onto are sturdy pieces that will not topple over on them whilst they are pulling themselves up.  Do a ’spot’ check around the room, are there any objects in his pathway that he may trip over? After all they don’t quite yet understand the whole ’space’ thing, in their beautiful eyes nothing’s ever really in their way!

Our little guy also loves to climb….(as if the cruising thing wasn’t giving me a good workout already!) he simply wants to climb on everything in the house…I admit, it’s also cute watching him try So throughout the day what I’ll do is to set up a mini obstacle course, I’ll throw a few pillows down for him to crawl over, some empty boxes for him to crawl through and whatever else I can find around the room that I can improvise.

Now if only I can bottle the energy, innocence and enthusiasm my little tyke has!