Crawling fun

Crawling has opened up a whole new world for Lynny, especially in the tub. She loves going from one end of the tub to the other, chasing her rubber duck. Whenever she manages to get to it, she'll reach out and it'll bob along to some other place in the tub. And off she goes to get it. It's so fun to watch. But the result is that most of the time all I see of her is this:

But when she does occasionally catch up to the duck she loves to stand up and show me. The other day she was doing just that when she dropped the duck just out of reach. She looked so upset and gave me the cutest "Mommy...help?" look. I'm so glad I had the camera.

She's also quite fascinated by the fireplace at the moment. We really need to get something to put in front of it until she's finally decided it's not longer captivating. As for now, though, she pulls herself up on the log stand and plays in the dust until one of us realizes where she is.

I've also started nannying a another little baby a couple days a week to help make ends meet. Her name is Jenna and she just turned three months old. Whenever Jenna comes over Lynny has a hard time deciding if she's going to be jealous her Mommy is holding another baby, or excited that there's another little person in the house. She's actually very gentle with Jenna, which surprised me seeing how her favorite thing to do right now is pinch peoples' faces. She loves to sit and watch Jenna in her bouncer seat or carseat. But she's having hard time with accepting that Jenna's binky is not Lynny's toy. She's always trying to steal it! I thought maybe pulling an old one out of the baby stuff would settle the problem, but now Lynny just wants both!

Here's a video of Lynny crawling. I realize that many of you don't really care, but this is more for Gramma Lynn than for anyone else. This video is almost two weeks old, so imagine her crawling with a little more speed and coordination.

And I'm posting this video just because it makes me laugh. I don't know why I think it's so funny when Lynny sticks her tongue in-and-out like she does in this video. But it seriously cracks me up.

Spaghetti, Mobility, and the Toy Box

Lynny had her first experience with spaghetti. I think she's a fan. What would you say?

She's also found her own toy box. Up until this week I would pull a few of her toys out at a time for her to play with, but this week she found where the toys have been coming from. She managed to pull the box out and empty it, one toy at a time. Now as soon as she wakes up in the morning she wants to go directly to the bookshelf to pull her toys out.
And she is officially mobile. Lynny finally figured out crawling last night. (She started cruising on furniture a while ago, but crawling was proving to be a little more tricky.) In her crawling adventures, Lynny found the CD/DVD rack. Oh boy, she thought that was fun.