Round and Round We Go

Nealie woke up today from her afternoon nap with a shout. Just one, but clear enough to say, Get me NOW! I brought her directly into the living room where she immediately began exploring, crawling and climbing. I instructed Curtis to entertain her while I finished some homework. Nealie disagreed with my decision, which she made clear through flailing complaints at my feet. There was obviously nothing left for me to do but succumb. I abandoned my deficient homework and slid down onto the floor, alongside my newly grinning daughter.

After exercising her mommy mountain climbing techniques she soon found something more interesting nearby to play with: a crumpled piece of notebook paper. I watched as Nealie as she became engrossed in the piece of paper, no longer concerned about the whereabouts of her mother.

A few minutes later, she headed back towards me, but took a hard left around the coffee table and started crawling towards the entertainment center. This was followed by another hard left towards the couch, and then another and another... I watched in disbelief for a few moments as my daughter began, slowly but surely, circling the coffee table. She would pause when she was catercorner from me, peek under the coffee table, and giggle. When she would get to my side of the coffee table, I kept expecting for her to forget the actions that made her the dizziest 9-month old in town. Surprisingly, she would just continue around and around, without pause or consideration of anything around her. After about fifteen circulations, I decided to crawl around the table with her. This seemed to break the spell; she sat down and waited for me to finish my round, laughed and climbed up onto me.

The questions that follow this interesting escapade are: Does Nealie follow in her A.D.H.D. father's footsteps? Does she really have that much energy? Are we even going to be able to catch her when she starts running (because, really, isn't walking out of the question?)?

Either way, I feel blessed every day to experience something new with our amazing, little Nealie.