Sitting Up!

Annelise is learning how to do baby crunches to get to a sitting up position!

Daddy started out doing this with her by having her grasp onto his thumbs while he'd wrap his hands around hers. Then he'd ever-so-lightly pull her up, and lift her head up slightly off her inclined bouncy seat. At first, we couldn't pull her up very much at all, because her head would stay flopped back against the seat. But then one day, she brought her head along with her body! After that, daddy just kept practicing with her until just a couple days ago, I tried it with her when she was laying on our bed after a nap. I was able to pull her all the way up to a sitting position! And she stayed there without any neck support to hold her head! I didn't actually know that Daddy hadn't brought her all the way up to a fully seated position, but apparently this was the first time she did it! We still have to hold her torso to keep her from just falling right over. But she keeps getting more steady with her neck and body every day. Building that muscle!

We've been practicing doing this with her whenever she's got the energy to expend. She really likes being up in a seated position all by herself because she can see things so much better.  It'll be interesting to see how she figures out how to get up all by herself!