A Quick Ascent

Quinn's metamorphosis if taking shape so fast, it's hard to keep up on what all has happened in a matter of days.

While I have been busy being domestic -- sewing all sorts of sundries including my first quilt, Quinn has been busy getting ready to rule the world. Seriously, she virtually already runs this house (albeit with a soft and often sticky fist).

In the past week she has sprouted a tooth, and as of today a second one is starting to pop through! It didn't seem like she'd have teeth anytime soon by reading her demeanor, but that too has taken shape in fits of fussiness as she expresses the discomforts of growing up.

Here I am impressed that I too could make a rather ugly quilt (which, technically isn't entirely complete, but nonetheless complete in its ugliness), and not only does she bring ivory to her gemlike face... Today, she had to show off just a bit more.

Watching her out of the corner of my eye while I read the paper and she scrambled about the living room, I couldn't believe it as I saw her lift her leg and (no, not pee like the dog, she doesn't copy them THAT much)... She climbed onto a stair. And then another. And then again! Like it was nothing. So amazing.

Just yesterday, she wasn't even trying to lift a leg, she was just heaving her torso onto the stair and trying to will her legs up as well. Today, she looked like she had done it a hundred times before.

So cool, and yet, so not cool. More barriers to come to the Bleiker House... Someday, not too long from now, my parents might have the freedom to roam their own house again sans swimming pool and other baby boobytraps. We shall see.


Love from the hurdling girls,
The So-Sew-ing Mom and Her Lil Mountain Goat