By the 4th of November (for new comers to this blog, dates are included on all of Anna photo and video posts, as they are automatically exported to her own site, and rather than spend a lot of time altering the timestamp of each post, I have included the date within the text, so visitors to that site can picture how Anna is changing over time a little more accurately) we had decided that the large sofa cushions placed on the floor as a basic border for Anna to stay within were pretty much useless now. So after a thorough clean by Irina of all the floors, Anna was now officially allowed to crawl around most of the flat. Given her new found enjoyment of moving forwards, and experimenting with standing up and walking short distances, I think we made the right choice at the right time.
Anna Tests Just How Far She Is Allowed
December 21st, 2009 4:24 pm
Chris, a top tip. Now Anna is mobile you will have to watch your keyboard.
I was working on a data processing script in Holland a few years back, Annabel (my second child) was stumbling around and starting to immitate our actions et al.
Anyway, long story short she managed to wipe a weeks work in about 3 nanoseconds (never figuered out how she did it), lost both the scripts I was working on and the backups (server backups saved the day but this was from the previos nights work).
So, watch those pinkies!! They love keyboards 🙂
December 22nd, 2009 2:21 am
We’ve taken the same approach with keyboards as with remote controls so far. When we said “NO!”, she just ended up trying to play with them when she thought we weren’t looking. If something important is on TV, I take a battery out of the remote control (all RCs were properly cleaned/degunked before we let Anna play), and if anything important is up on screen, work is saved, minimized, and I open up a notepad instance for her to hammer away at 🙂