Spidey Baby, Spidey Baby, Does Whatever ...

Whoooooooah! Rain is almost mobile, run! Save yourselves!

She's an accident waiting to happen; do you want to be the one present when it does?

Examples:
1. The dry cleaners put our clothes on the hook in my car's backseat. I thought nothing of it until I heard plastic crumpling. Rain had reached over and tried to suffocate herself.

2. I let her stand and hold the edge of our padded coffee table where I was working. I turned around for a second. When I looked back, she was chewing on my laptop cable.

3. I forget how long Rain's arms are now. My apologies to if I've visited your home recently.

4. "Are you having fun with Mama's plastic hangers, Rainbow? Aren't they fun to bang together? Oh--no, don't put the hook in your mouth--oh, see? Don't cry, honey, Mommy's sorry ..."

5. I forget how long Rain's legs are now. I've underestimated the clearance it takes to get her through a doorway when I'm carrying her on her side.

6. It's wonderful to create a hunger for books in your child. It's undesirable for her to actually have a hunger for books.

I'm too embarrassed to go on, but let's just say poor Rain has had the wind knocked out of her on more than one occasion (forgive me!). Today, she got up on all fours (today's photo). Beware, beware ...