Crawling, Teething and Pulling Up!

Ella has completely amazed us (again!) over the past week with her sudden strength and coordination to get around the house. She started to crawl (army style), had a tooth puncture through the gums and is pulling up from a sitting to standing position! My two new favorites are seeing her come home from daycare filthy (apparently she now mops their floors with her pants while she crawls) and watching her play independently while we get ready for work. When the silence sets in you know she's either filling her diaper or perfecting her new talents (in the case of this morning, it was both). After leaving her to play on her bedroom floor for a couple of minutes this morning while I fixed my hair, I returned to find her standing against her toy box, reaching in and grabbing each toy, one by one, and plopping them on the floor. I think I captured the guilty, yet proud, look on her face. What do you think?

P.S. we have a great video of Ella crawling, however the file size is too large for upload. Once we reformat, we will attempt uploading again.