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Boom.  Boom.  Boom.

That's the sound of Lily hitting milestones.  And it seems about that fast too.  She made her first forward crawling motion last Monday (2/16) and became a proficient crawler on Saturday (2/21).  The sitting-still stage was so nice while it lasted.  Now nothing is safe, as her sisters are quickly finding out.  She can gobble up a homework paper faster than you can say my baby sister ate my homework. I need to vacuum about every other day because Lily puts everything in her mouth and I'm just not comfortable with her eating leftovers she finds under the dining room table.  During the (literally) one minute that I walked away from her today she knocked over the (thankfully empty) kitchen trash can and was trying to chew on the garbage bag. 

She's also started to babble more -- d's and m's.  I'm so much more aware of the developmental markers with Lily.  With Ellen and Hayley I just took their development for granted.  With Eden I watched her so closely to see when she reached long awaited milestones.  I still do.  Just last week she took her shirt off by herself.  If she was typical for her age I would have reprimanded her because it was not an appropriate situation to remove one's shirt.  But I was just so thrilled to watch her do it I let her go.  Never again will I take typical development for granted.