She's Been Here Before

I swear this damn girl has been here before. The things she does and the way she moves around is like a combination of Chucky and the brain gremlin from Gremlins 2. While washing dishes in the kitchen this morning I made sure that I peeked over the bar periodically to keep an eye on her. I picked up a plate, washed it, rinsed it off and placed it in the dishwasher to dry. That took maybe 30 seconds. I looked up at her and she was on the floor near the DVD shelf pulling out DVDs. That's fine. It'll be more work for me later but for now it's keeping her quiet. I washed another plate, rinsed, put it in the dishwasher and then looked back to see what she was doing. My Xbox is standing up beside the entertainment center. She crawled over from the DVD shelf and made her way to the Xbox and was trying to pull it over.

That didn't bother me because I wised up a long time ago and carefully placed it between the entertainment center and the DVD shelf so that no matter how hard she pushed/pulled left or right...it couldn't fall over. I went back to washing dishes. I washed another plate. That's 30 seconds in Earth time. I don't know how much time that is in alien/gremlin baby time because when I looked up, my daughter was standing up holding on to the entertainment center about six feet away from where I'd just seen her.

She's only six months. She can't stand up on her own, but she's figured out how to pull herself up. I had no clue how the hell she did what she did so I had to recreate the scene. I put her back on all fours and in front of the DVD shelf and I waited. It took ten minutes for her to do it again, but I didn't care. I had to know. Remember, my living room layout is as follows...DVD shelf--one inch of space--XBOX--one inch of space--TV Stand/Entertainment Center.Here's what she did:

Using the bottom shelf on the DVD stand, she pulled herself up onto her knees. She couldn't reach the shelf above that one so she held on to the bottom shelf and "walked on her knees" four feet to the right until she got to the inch of space. She then pulled the Xbox closer to her and then used that to pull herself a little bit higher. She then lunged forward (dangerous as hell I might add since my TV stand is made of glass) and grabbed the middle shelf on the TV stand that was slightly higher than the Xbox and pulled herself up into a full standing position. From there, she walked the four foot length of the TV stand until she got near the subwoofer which is where I came in.

Now why was she doing this? As I write this I notice that there is a pack of Peanut Butter M&M's on top of the subwoofer. I believe the red wrapper caught her attention and she wanted to know what it was.

It starts with getting a pack of M&Ms. In no time she'll be plotting casino robberies a la Oceans Eleven.