Harp's new tricks

Harper has some new tricks up her sleeve...

Like drinking from a straw cup.  She actually does get a little water up the straw, but not a lot.  She mostly likes playing with it.

And Harper can now push herself up into a sitting position when she's on her stomach. {So we went ahead and lowered her crib last weekend.  Now my mom can sleep at night again.}  However, she seems to forget that she can do this.  She's done it once a day since she first did it last Thursday.  On Saturday, she sat up behind the curtain in the living room...

 Peekaboo!!

And she LOVES to stand up at the ottoman or the windowsill in the living room.  {She also LOVES to scratch up our ottoman with her nails.  The weathered look is "in" though, right?}

I think she is really close to crawling.  I got the video camera out three times yesterday thinking she was about to, but she just rocked on her knees and then sat back on her bottom.  Part of me is ready for her to start crawling because she'll be more independent, but the other part of me is not ready to start chasing after her!