I've realized recently that Maggie is really starting to be able to do stuff and I really need to start being more alert. For example, I normally try to make sure she doesn't grab the faucet handle when I'm giving her a bath (in the kitchen sink) so she doesn't turn the water to hot and burn herself, but today she managed to evade me and turn the water off twice. She also pulled out the tap to drink some water and spent half the bath trying to climb out of the tub, so of course there was water everywhere by the time we were done. She also can't stay still when getting her diaper changed anymore so I've had to use those straps that come with the changing pad finally and buckle her down so she doesn't roll off the changing table or make a big mess.
So even though she doesn't do a real crawl, she does get around. I realized this the other day when I left her on the floor in her room to go take a shower, thinking that this was still completely safe as she wouldn't go anywhere. But by the time I came back she was about 10 feet from where I left her, in front of the sliding closet mirror door, and on her way out the room. Speaking of which, every time she sees herself in the mirror she gets really excited and just has to go towards her reflection. Anyway, so it does seem that the combination of scooting, rotating, and rolling is more effective than I had given it credit for.
Also, she just wants to get her hands on everything these days. Here she is trying to get to the cell phone as I'm trying to take a video of her:
But it's not just fun things like balloons and cell phones and toys anymore these days. It's dirty napkins and slippers and metal forks and mugs full of liquids and all sorts of other inappropriate things. Today she made her way to a big metal weight (a taichi ball, similar to a bowling ball except that it weighs 40 lbs) that Marlon works out with and gave it a slobbery lick before I stopped her.
Well I'm still not running these days. I realized today that it's the middle of June now which means it's been 6 weeks since I've been able to run regularly, which makes me so mad at myself, because if I hadn't tried to jump back into it in so quickly in order to try to run that half marathon, I could be much further ahead by now. Argh. It's been about 1.5 weeks since my last run, and the improvement has just been very, very slow. But on the bright side I can now use the elliptical without any pain so that's a step. Also, I read a magazine on Crossfit Endurance the other day and thought that I would try out the toned-down beginner plan that was included with the article. The first workout was 3 sets of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 20 sit-ups, which seemed easy enough as long as I did assisted pull-ups, since I can't even do one of those. So I tried it on Monday...and realized that I totally overestimated how many sit-ups I can actually do. In fact, I couldn't even make it through the second set! :/
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