Monday, July 26, 2010

Crossing the threshold

Lily has never been a particularly brave baby. Rather, she is quite calculated and methodical, preferring to be completely comfortable with a task before venturing onto something new. We first noticed this when she was learning to crawl and we see it again now as she gets closer to walking. She slowly figures out each details of the skill that she is attempting to acquire and then boom, she's got it! Her reserved nature has made her an easy child to parent but recently, she seems to be coming out of her shell and she's starting to keep us on our toes. She never used to venture around the house much and she would often just sit in the open doorway, watching the world go by. However, I left her sitting near the front door last week and when I came up from doing a load of laundry downstairs, she had made her way outside and into the front yard. All this from a girl who had never even crossed over the threshold onto the porch, never mind down four stairs and onto the grass!

Before

After

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