Today Ava Reached the Summit

It may not have been Everest, but you reached new heights today. 

Peak performance.

Towards the middle of the afternoon I received a text from your mom with an image of you standing against the living room coffee table reaching for the remote.The text read "Now we're in for it. Did this by herself while I tried to get on the comp." 

And with that we've officially entered the "climbing" stage of your life. You want to climb everything, us, the table, sofa, couch, whatever you can get a grip on. 

It has come back to haunt you though. After taking your eight month photos - a few days late - we were looking to see if we took anything worthwhile and you crashed into the coffee table trying to pull yourself up and see what we were doing.

You've fallen and hurt yourself before, but this was a little different, from where I sat I didn't see you hit but I did see the coffee table shake. A mini earthquake if you will. After the shock wore off you began to cry. It was the longest most intense cry to date of any of your accidents. It took a few minutes but eventually all was well. 

Keep climbing, I'll never discourage you from reaching for new heights.