Rookie Dad: She's in the Army

The Youngling is amazingly well-tempered. She will sit for 30 minutes at a time in the living room on the floor playing with what I affectionately call toy mountain. She doesn't care if anyone is around but she has her own special way of letting you know that she is either bored, hungry, tired, in need of a new diaper or is just curious what is happening in the other corners of the house. She army crawls to where she thinks you might be. But if you're not there, she'll put herself in a precarious situation.

Those situations have included almost climbing in to the refrigerator because I make my lunch for the day with the refrigerator door wide open. I'll chalk that one up to The Youngling being curious about my wasting of electricity.

She has also closed herself in her bedroom because one of her latest hobbies is opening and closing doors. Yes, she actually closed her bedroom door and proceeded to stay sitting against the back side of it. After a minute of being patient and slight pushing, The Youngling took the hint and crawled away ever so slowly from the door. Yep, just over ten months in and she's already trying to keep us old geezers out of her bedroom.