Swing Self

As Ellie makes her way through toddler-hood, there seem to be few occasions for marking "firsts". First tooth, first word, first steps, first solid food, and so on are all memorably in the past. It's harder to capture the wonder of "first six word sentence" and things like that. (Feel free to suggest good toddler firsts to keep an eye out for!)

But we had a good first this week after a year of being dependent on Mummy and Daddy to swing — Ellie swung herself for the first time! Here's the video. I dare you not to swing with her. Now if only we could figure out how to teach her the back-and-forth way!