I was right!

Last Saturday (the 7th) I posted saying that Brooke was trying to figure out how to crawl and that I thought by this Saturday she would be. I was right! She was crawling short distances by Thursday and by Saturday was crawling the whole length of a room! She's a little tornado already, getting in to everything she can. LOL. Notice the 2 baby gates in the above pictures - the one on the right is blocking the stairs and the other is blocking the kitchen. We just put those up yesterday. She's also already trying to get to things on the shelves on the entertainment center and we've had to do a bit of rearranging. If there is a cord (like for instance, Ryan's Gameboy charger) around to be found, she will find it...and try to chew on it. Yikes! This little girl is definitely going to keep us on our toes, I can tell already!

Last night we were playing a game of darts in the dining room (yes, we have a dart board...it's fun!) and we took the gate at the stairs down to give Brooke more room so she could play on the floor near us so we could keep an eye on her. She figured out how to climb up on the first step.

That was the first time she ever stood up at something (besides holding on to someone's hands and pulling herself up), so I'm sure it won't be long before she's standing up at anything she can. I'm now worried she's going to figure out how to walk soon since she learned how to crawl so quickly. I am SO not ready for that. LOL. Ryan didn't walk until he was 25 months old. I know she won't take that long, but I'll be totally fine if she waits a few more months before walking.

You'll also notice in the picture of her on the stairs that she got a boo boo yesterday. Ryan was playing bowling on the Wii and Brooke sat up right in front of him right as he swung the remote : (. She had an instant goose egg. This was the FIRST time he has played where she wasn't contained in either her Hop'n'Pop or activity chair...and look what happened. I feel terrible : (. From now on, we'll be extra careful that she is nowhere around, and safely contained, when he is playing.