I’ve come to the conclusion that Zara is always going to puzzle me, she has been at the “almost walking” stage for ages now, she will take 4-5 steps quite happily when she isn’t thinking about it but if she stops to think then she seems to bottle it and prefer the safer option of crawling. Probably completely normal and in a way I’m glad she has a cautious element to her.

She does however have a reckless obsession with climbing, why bother walking forwards when you can aim for the skies is apparently her current motto. Leave anything anywhere which can enable her to get a little bit higher and she will find it, stand on it. She has even learnt to stack objects in an effort to get higher! This evening she even attempted to climb out of the bath by standing on some of her toys.

The other evening she was happily climbing on and off her bounce and spin zebra and I took my eyes off her for 5 seconds, I look up and this is what I see…

I could get a job in the circus!

She was really enjoying it aswell, of course being a super cautious mum, rather than rushing to remove her from imminent danger, I instead reached for the camera. It must be the horsewoman in me that makes me so proud of her interest in being in (or in this case on) the saddle :) I’m already wondering how long it will be before I can get her on a pony and let the real fun begin! Maybe in a few years she’ll be joining mummy in her love of horses :) I guess the proper walking is just around the corner.

Maybe she wants to be just like mummy