rolling over - 6.25.12

until now, emery has been playing on a fairly narrow activity mat and when she would roll up on her right side, she'd run into the pole that holds the hanging toys. so last tuesday, i pulled out a bigger mat (we have three mats, i'd only opened one of them) so she'd have more room to try rolling. on wednesday, i pushed her to her side, where she'd been rolling on her own, and she rolled herself over! but for the next few days, she tried to do the whole roll herself and would only get about 3/4 of the way over and flop back. today, i was making my breakfast while she played on her mat (i can see her from the kitchen) and after a few minutes when i looked over at her, she was on her tummy - to her left! so i helped back on her back and watched her try again to the left and this time she got all the way over fairly easily! she rolled several more times during the day. i think we still need to work on rolling to the right. and we definitely need to work on how to get tummy to back - once she's on her tummy she doesn't know what to do! she can only hold her head and chest up for so long before she gets tired and face-plants. and lately she's been trying to pull her knees up under her and that just causes her to face-plant even more. wow, this girl is getting so big!

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