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Grace isn't traditionally mobile yet.  She's still a bit too small to crawl, let alone walk, but that doesn't keep her from moving around.  I've already covered how she likes to wiggle around when she's being held, and as cool as her trust falls are, they're not her only peculiar ability.

My little girl is a habitual spinner.  Whenever she lies down, whether awake or asleep, she shifts and shimmys around, which isn't all that strange on its own.  What's bizzare is her spin pattern.

First, in a massive departure from her Zoolander/Magnum days, she only turns to her left.  Stranger (and invalidating the title of this article), she only spins 90 degrees, no more no less.  Last, and strangest still, she only shifts herself if she's lying longways in the proper position inside her crib, pack and play or playset in order to reorient herself sideways across the narrowest part of the surface.

Almost totally sleep-spun.

I don't know whether it was because she found comfort in having her hands and feet touching something or just an instinct for Feng Shui, but she's been doing this since her waning days in the bassinet.  The first time led to a scare when Carrie and I woke up in the morning to see Grace missing in the video monitor.  Panic set in and we lept out of bed, finding our shifty little baby curled up along the bottom of her bed, just out of view of the camera.

I assume it's just a stage and once she gets more control over her body she'll be more comfortable lying normally.  If it's not, I think I have a solution.  I'm going to get her a perfectly square bed, so that there's no narrow way to lay.