Furniture! [Video]

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This past month (9 months so far!) we started using more pieces of our cute RIE wooden furniture for kids, now that Mara is more steady on her feet.

Large Climbing Structure

This is Mara's first time trying to use the large wooden climbing structure and ramp. She just went to it and started climbing with confidence, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world.


Little Chair Stool

We love the little stools that came with the baby table, we've used them before as mini tables on their own by placing various toys on top. Mara would love to crawl between them to pick up each toy and place it on the carpet. She would play this game for long periods of time.

This particular video was from a few weeks ago, one morning when Greg was letting me sleep in. He chose to feed Mara some spaghetti and rice (what, you don't eat that for breakfast?!) and brought a stool out as a sitting device for the first time.


Disclaimer: The RIE philosophy says that it's best to let the kids climb onto the stools on their own, they should discover how. I think what happened here was that the chair was conveniently placed behind Mara when she was standing, and Greg told her that it's there and why; at some point she got tired of standing and sat down. It's probably not too odd because she often would sit on our laps which are almost the same height.


Mara Discovers the Wheel

Warning, the sound of this footage may be reminiscent of Star Wars.


I guess it's not too early to start Tire Flipping workouts.

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