The Tornado

Julia went from being a passive, slow-army-crawling, never-makes-any-trouble baby to a wild, into-everything, crawls-everywhere-in-the-blink-of-an-eye, tornado baby! It all happened when she finally transitioned to crawling on her knees, and of course the day she figured out how to open cabinets and drawers.  

This is Julia when she was a good baby. See how innocent she looks?

Then she learned how to pull all the DVDs off the shelves

And climb into cabinets

And she figured out a new place she could poop in private

She found all the baby-safe toys we left for her under the sink

Yeah, we let our 10-month-old play with plastic bags. Don't you?

What's that? Actually playing with her own toys! It happens every once in a while.

Hello!

Open, close, open, close...it never gets old

And I'm getting really nervous about what Greg is teaching her while I'm at work. THE TRUMPET? Seriously???!!!

She even goes wild in her crib when we're not watching

Notice how she has to stand on everything, like the dustpan.

And she loves the stairs, and is good at going up AND down them.

I wonder what is in this cabinet....

Or this cabinet

Making friends with the cans

More cabinets

And more cabinets...

And drawers...

Smoking a syringe...good thing I took all of the cigars out of that drawer!

She crawled right into this box

And she insists on putting the elephant's tail in her mouth and crawling around the house. I don't know why, but it's adorable.

So why are we encouraging her to learn how to walk when she's already a tornado? Now THAT'S a good question.