"Jump! JUMP!!"

I walk in to get Julia this morning and she is standing up in her crib smiling at me. She then yells "Jump! JUMP! Jump!!" as she is holding on the the side of her crib and jumping. I guess a crib mattress makes a great trampoline. LOL

I actually am happy to see this! I have been trying to get Julia to jump for quite some time now. She understand she needs to bend her knees and and then quickly straighten them, but she never gets her feet off the ground. She might get up to her tip toes, but never off the ground. This is really something she should be doing already by this age. I am not worried and try not to focus on the milestones she should be hitting. She as always lagged behind in gross motor skills (crawled late, walked late, etc..). I never worried because she has always been ahead in fine motor skills and WAY ahead in her verbal skills (she was saying sentences before her first birthday). I just figured, ahead in one area meant a lag in another area.

So I stopped even thinking about it. But I was still excited this morning to see her jumping in her bed. Partly because it is a gross motor skill she had yet to learn, but mostly because she was so happy and excited to be doing it. She thought it was so neat to be jumping on her bed! I am sure one day soon I will be yelling at her to stop jumping on her bed!!LOL