Hey, What's This Stuff?

Well, it finally happened . . . Emily has discovered the shelves! We knew that this day was coming, we just didn't know when.

Up until last week, she had been crawling around, only concerned with trying to get the things that were left on the floor, like our shoes, her diaper bag, her toys, the odd newspaper now and again, etc. She was perfectly happy scoping out the carpet for every little microscopic spec of something, anything, that she's not supposed to be playing with, but we somehow miss and don't notice. I've nicknamed her the "human vacuum" because she always manages to find the smallest little pieces of fuzz and paper that you never realized existed.

Then she began pulling herself up on the couch. She started playing with whatever was in arms reach, like my magazines, today's mail, or Daddy's comics from the Sunday paper. We had to watch what we would put on the ottoman and the end tables, because she would eventually make her way over there to check those things out to see what she could get her hands on.

All of this time has gone by. She has crawled past our shelves countless times on her way to her room, or to go near the front door to attack my shoes (she loves Mommy's shoes!). She has never noticed they were there . . . or at least she had never noticed that there is stuff on those shelves. Those shelves are filled with fun stuff . . . books, maps, DVDs . . . Woo-Hoo, DVDs!!! Then finally, last week one day, she discovered that there is fun stuff on those shelves. She had a field day with our DVDs!! They are big fun, let me tell you.

Here is some photographic evidence of all the fun that she was having with those exciting DVDs.

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