I can’t say I was not prepared for this. I’ve been talking about it for months, but yet when it happens, I feel like a lifetime’s not enough for me to ever get prepared for this.
Baby Jayne has become a tireless walking machine – A not-so-steady one nonetheless.
If we’re at home, all she wants to do is to walk here and there, touching everything that comes into her paths, exploring every interesting thing that appears within her sight. As with most kids, gadgets of any sort intrigued her the most. She loves the handphone, laptop, PSP, DS Lite. Anything remotely electronic-looking is good.
And that means a whole lot of trouble for me. I spend my days following behind her, wrenching things out of her hands for fear that she would drop it accidentally (Come on, those are really tiny hands!), while chanting & nagging incessantly about this and that being dirty, or this and that being dangerous and “cannot touch!” Quite frankly, I was getting sick of all my nagging.
But didn’t I already know all these were going to happen? I suppose I was deceiving myself and delaying the realisation of truth.
The situation kinda gets more bleak when we are outside. Because she is not so steady yet, she sometimes falls to the ground and she gets all her palms and bum dirty and before I had time to clean her palms, she was sucking on her fingers (ewwww i know..) and scrambling off to continue her walking . Sigh, it was getting out of hand.
To console myself though, the starting-to-walk-and-still-not-so-steady phase is utterly and irresistibly cute. She wobbles along, and takes each step meticulously by lifting up each foot dutifully. Every successful step is another step towards brisk walking, then running, then jumping!
Maybe I should start training Joey to hold her sister’s hand and walk while we are outside. Sisters are for walking side-by-side & hand-in-hand, isn’t it? :) Then maybe I can get back to holding my hubby’s hand and pretend we’re back to pak-toring days!
