Elise has wheels. Her crawling skills have improved and she’s added the effortless move from crawling to sitting and back again. She can tear through the house and end up–who knows where?

I pulled out the little walker cart to give her something to climb on and she’s enjoying that. We also played a little game of “stand and hold onto the couch” which she thought was fun, but not as fun a crawling. The funniest (for me in a mean mom way) part is when she wants me and cries as she crawls to where I am. It looks like she’s lost in the desert…looking for an oasis.

The downside is she is no longer content to sit in the stroller (or car seat or on the changing table) and just look about. She wants out/down and into whatever she can get her paws on. We’re leaving for our “all girls road trip” at the end of the week and I’m nervous about having her in the car for as many hours as we’ll need to be. I’m sure she’s not going to be happy. I plan on leaving early and hopefully all the girls will sleep for the first big push. Then we’ll take it easy and stop early enough in the day to get her and her sisters some needed exercise.

We’ll make it through. I will say, it’s much more interesting around her with our little scooter.