Not a particularly busy week this time. Sam’s only got one new trick for the week, but it’s a big one: she’s starting to pull up. For non-parents this may evoke images of Sam blasting her lats on the chinup bar while a drill sergeant yells at her, but everyone else will know what I’m talking about. We tried desperately to snap a picture of Sam while she was actually standing up on both feet, but she refused to cooperate, always falling back on her padded ass by the time our camera completed its ten-minute startup.
Since falling down on her rump doesn’t seem to hurt, we thought we had finished our baby proofing duties short of filling the whole house eight inches deep with styrofoam packing material. But, alas, we had our first “boo boo” last night. We had given Sam free reign of the dining room, watching her with one eye while she made her way over to the china cabinet (we just call it that; we don’t actually have any Chinese people in it). I hadn’t put locks on the lower drawers since they aren’t filled with poisoned thumbtacks like most other things in our house. As soon as Sam opened one of the drawers, I thought “Hrm, she could pinch her fingers if she clo–” WHAM! Drawer closed on fingers and oh the screaming. The screaming. Then Sam started to scream. I scooped her up, did the owie dance, and sang the alphabet song three times. It’s the only song I know other than AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” which I’ve been forbidden to perform. But don’t worry. Sam’s fine and will still be able to count to ten without taking off her shoes.
Here’s the pictures for the week:
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You can see in some of those pictures that Sam still isn’t playing games with Dad like some kids, but I was glad to see her developing a healthy interest in geekery this week. She’s still new at video games, though, and whenever she tries to do Triangle, Circle, Down, she ends up doing Circle, Circle, Circle, Cram Controller In Mouth. But she’s learning.
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