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Personality differences are amazing among siblings.
My oldest daughter, from the time she could get around on her own (crawling, then cruising, then walking) has been this graceful and dainty child. (Except...don't have her sing...it hurts to hear it, even though I tell her it's wonderful. Eh, so I lie...she'll realize one day that the dogs howling outside when she sings is not mere coincidence...I'm not telling her...)
Even as a baby, she stacked things, organized them and sort of just flounced through things. Rarely ever got into things she wasn't supposed to....
Fast forward to my youngest daughter, as she nears ten months:
She's a wrecking ball...She'll crawl as fast as she can to ANYTHING that is stacked up neatly, blocks, books, toys) and whack them down. If I'm sitting on the floor with her, she'll turn around and plow into me full-force, all the while laughing as if it was the funniest thing ever done...It hurts! If she's on my lap she plays this game that I think is called "Smash Mommy's Spleen".
Oh, and she is so bad! (Not in the actual sense if bad, but quite impish...)
Rather than toys, she tries to get her hands on anything else...magazines, phones, my books!!, remote controls....and I swear to you, she hides them in her hand or under her bum so I can't see what she has. If I catch her and go to get it from her, she crawls as fast as she can (and I mean FAST) away from me, with this look on her face of panic and irritation. How dare I have the audacity to take something away from her!
She'll be walking soon, as she is currently using the furniture to make her way across the room to find her new trouble-making schemes.
Walking?!?
Be afraid...very, very afraid.....
My oldest daughter, from the time she could get around on her own (crawling, then cruising, then walking) has been this graceful and dainty child. (Except...don't have her sing...it hurts to hear it, even though I tell her it's wonderful. Eh, so I lie...she'll realize one day that the dogs howling outside when she sings is not mere coincidence...I'm not telling her...)
Even as a baby, she stacked things, organized them and sort of just flounced through things. Rarely ever got into things she wasn't supposed to....
Fast forward to my youngest daughter, as she nears ten months:
She's a wrecking ball...She'll crawl as fast as she can to ANYTHING that is stacked up neatly, blocks, books, toys) and whack them down. If I'm sitting on the floor with her, she'll turn around and plow into me full-force, all the while laughing as if it was the funniest thing ever done...It hurts! If she's on my lap she plays this game that I think is called "Smash Mommy's Spleen".
Oh, and she is so bad! (Not in the actual sense if bad, but quite impish...)
Rather than toys, she tries to get her hands on anything else...magazines, phones, my books!!, remote controls....and I swear to you, she hides them in her hand or under her bum so I can't see what she has. If I catch her and go to get it from her, she crawls as fast as she can (and I mean FAST) away from me, with this look on her face of panic and irritation. How dare I have the audacity to take something away from her!
She'll be walking soon, as she is currently using the furniture to make her way across the room to find her new trouble-making schemes.
Walking?!?
Be afraid...very, very afraid.....
As for the rambunctious behavior, try training her that when she hurts you while you hold/touch her, you will put her down or move away from her (and repeat "NO! That hurts me!" with a stern face and tone, every time).
I know it sounds like a lot of work, but better to be prepared when she's ready to take the next step in the mischief department! And you know what they say... "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". It's worth it if it'll help you relax a bit!
Good luck -- I've been there twice already! :)
And as for telling her 'no', oh, she knows that word quite well.
And she does NOT like it one bit. I think it gives her more incentive to hide things that she gets a hold of.
She breaks into a devilish grin as well when the "Smashing of Mommy's Spleen" commences. She knows when I say no....because she does stop, and then reaches out her hand to pat my head. She pats my head so angelically...and then grabs a fistful of hair and yanks.
She's a dang bully.
It literally took her 1.2 seconds, before I could even exhale, to grab the toilet roll and get it into the bath with her. That was a fun mess.
I need a vacation.
Sophie (21months) now likes to come up to me, pat or rub my leg, then.............CHOMP
According to my mom, my sister used to do the same thing. When Sophie did this the first time, it was as if the world was in slow motion and I had an inkling in my mind that something bad was going to happen. She is also the daredevil, the higher the point she can climb to and then jump from the better!