Cruising / Standing / Climbing / Teddy Bear / Game / Shy

In the last few days, all the sudden, Ashley pulls herself up by the TV stand or by the sofa, and is able to move her feet sideway one at the time. It's almost like walking with support (AKA cruising). She is also able to switch from one supporting subject to another and continues her "cruising" until she reaches her destination. She's getting very close to be walking.

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Yesterday, Ashley pulled herself up from the coffee table, grabbed some toy with one hand, and started to play with it. For a few seconds, she was completely standing by herself without any support. It looks very sturdy too.

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Ashley loves to climb when you are holding her. It just looks like she wants to climb over your shoulder. The other day, she was able to climb herself up to her rocker chair. Everything is happening so fast.

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Ashley has this little towel bear that we always gave her when she goes to sleep since she was born. She loves that tiny little bear, holds it when she goes to sleep; plays with it when she wakes up and carries it with her when we pick her up from her crib. I put a pink Teddy Bear in her crib a while back and I think she plays with it when she wakes up in her crib as well. Yesterday I took her to play with her little friend, Cerisa, and there was a purple Teddy Bear. When Ashley saw the Teddy Bear, she grabbed it and gave it a big hug, almost with her head leaning on top the Teddy Bear, and then smiled. This was the first time I saw her doing that and it was so cute.

This morning, I gave her another Teddy Bear, she lighted up her eyes, grabbed it and gave it a big hug as well and then giggled. It was so cute and sweet. It looks like she's starting showing her girly personality.

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Ashley is becoming very aware of her surrounding and it seems she knows exactly what's going on. This morning, she took a pen that was hanging on my bag, so I said, "No Ashley, you can't play with that. Let's put it back." Right after I put back the pen, but she immediately crawled over, grabbed the pen again, looked at me, and made a couple "hehe" sound as if she was saying, "hehe, I goooot it again!"

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Ashely has the stranger anxiety sometimes, but every once a while, when she meets a stranger or even a familiar face, she loves to pretend to be shy. She would look at you, giggles, shakes her head and turns her heads away from you and smile, waits a couple seconds, turns back, giggles more, shakes her heads again and turns her head away. She would repeat this process several of times and seems to have a lot of fun with it. I sometimes wonder if she's pretending to be shy or if she was just playing a peek-a-boo game. What else it is, she's so cute and fun!