Mountain Climber

Lately, even though Grace has yet to walk unassisted, she is climbing like a rock star. She will try and get up and onto anything low enough for her to lift a leg onto. For now this means the heights to which she ascends is quite limited - mostly to the stairs. While we were in Denver, Grandma and Grandpa Hesseltine worked with Grace climbing up and down the stairs in their home. In the time since, Grace has become a natural, as exemplified in the video.

Grace will also climb into (and unfortunately out of) the bath tub. She has also recently decided she likes to climb her car seat. This is fine, dandy, and cute as long as the car seat is in the house. As you can see in the photos below, Grace has a great time playing peek-a-boo from the bucket. Interestingly, this is the view Sarah had the other day when driving down the road. It took only milliseconds to realized Grace had been put into the car seat, but not strapped down. Does this make us horrible parents? Only if we let it happen again!