Sonia reached 37 weeks during our Christmas travels, a leap week on the Wonder Weeks calendar. Her development has been following that guide nearly to the day since she was born, and this leap was no exception. It is just unbelievable how much progress she made in this one crazy week!
The first stop in our travels was Cincinnati. After a long day flying, we set Sonia on the floor to stretch out, and within minutes she was trying to push herself up to sitting for the first time. A couple minutes later she succeeded, with her grandparents and I looking on. We let out such a cheer and started clapping for her, I think it scared her 🙂
We had a great time with the rest of our time in Cincinnati. Sonia opened a lot of presents, saw a lot of extended family, and got a big kick out of the holiday train displays at the Krohn Conservatory and the Cincinnati History Museum.
Not surprisingly, Sonia did not continue sleeping through the night, but her regression was nowhere near as bad as Hawaii. Unfortuantely, she also started to show some stranger danger with all the new people.
On Christmas Day, we traveled from Cincinnati to Charlotte. By that time, Sonia had already decided that she’d rather walk than crawl, and her clinginess was getting worse. She spent hours and hours trying to stand against the back of the sofa. If I’d put her down to play on the floor, she would crawl over to me and try to stand up. She would complain loudly until I picked her up and held her by her hands to work on stepping, at which point she would start grinning uncontrollably. It was a bit tiresome at times, especially since she didn’t even want to go to Daddy as much, but well worth it to see her so proud of herself!
Aside from trying to walk, we had a great time visiting family, playing with new toys, and learning to wave “Hi” and “bye bye”
I guess we’d better start baby-proofing, because this little girl is about to get on the move!
So glad we all got see her at Christmas! What a beautiful baby girl!