fine whine

A couple weeks ago Natalya finally began crawling forward. I'd been looking forward to that development for some time, and she has since had more practice and can now get wherever she wants reasonably quickly, as long as it's on the floor.

Well, until yesterday. Yesterday she successfully crawled up a staircase. It's only three steps, but it was three big steps for a baby.

She breathes really heavily when she's trying hard to do something. I've also seen her stick out her tongue when concentrating on something (something I'm told I do as well) but that's probably a dangerous thing to do while climbing stairs*.

I'm of divided mind, though. While it's cool that she managed to do this, this means now her chances of hurting herself in the house just increased considerably.

* Especially in light of the two sharp teeth in her bottom jaw.