It's A Learning Process

Although M's original mad excitement about rolling over has abated - when she first figured out the back to front roll, she refused to stay on her back at all - she is still exploring its uses as a form of transportation.  In fact, I think she's figured out that it is a form of transportation.  Today, she saw something she wanted in the distance, and quite deliberately rolled to it.

She began in the middle of her quilt (we've set up a baby floor arena in our dining room).  Notice the diaper bag in the lower left corner of the picture.

She ended up in across the room, a distance of feet.  Probably four feet, though possibly five, and when you're a VERY SMALL* person whose only means of locomotion is rolling or scootching, that's quite a distance.

She also managed to overcome the obstacle of the discarded onesie.  Well, overcome in that she picked it up and took it with her.

Also, sadly, when she arrived at her destination, she realized that she had not reckoned with the walls, and was rather annoyed, though she did seem to like kicking at the whole structure until the crossmembers fell and she twined her little legs through them.

Also, notice the diaper bag in the lower right corner of this picture.  It gives you an idea of scale.


*Compared to full-size people.  Compared to people her own age, she's a galumphing great person.