Yes, two weeks without a post...I know, I know. But really the baby does keep me busy. When he is awake, he is moving. When he is moving, he is leaving a path of destruction in his wake. As I wrote before, he pulls up on everything, cruises, carries things around and pulls himself along. It was as if, all at once, we needed everything babyproofed.I had largely figured he had gotten so efficient at what he was doing that he might not be much interested in crawling and might skip this milestone. To be honest, I was very slightly anxious, because some experts feel it is important that children learn how to crawl as a foundation for learning physical coordination and some even believe pre-literacy skills. (The basic idea is for this is that crawling helps children learn to coordinate left/right movement, so they have a future foundation for being able to scan left to right in reading. As I write this, of course, that sounds silly and I guess that is why not everyone agrees. Point is, that it is a skill my baby wasn't learning.) On the other hand, Mr. Baby has been doing everything in his own time: rolling, sitting, moving, teeth. I assume he will hit all of the right milestones at the right time for him.
Well, just after hitting the ten month mark (sigh), Zeke started hands and knees crawling. However, he would only crawl when dressed in nothing but his diaper. No clothes, crawling. Clothes -- BAM! -- army crawling. I resigned myself to him forever cleaning the hardwoods with his cute little clothes.
But, of course, just when I get comfortable with something, it changes. Yesterday he decided he wants to crawl full-time, so that is what he does now! Maybe it was his wanting to be faster in chasing the pets or that he got to watch other babies crawling this week at playgroup and Little Gym. Maybe it was all the time he spends trying to go up the stairs. Maybe he was just ready. Here are some photos of him moving around yesterday. (Make sure to look at the last one...such a look of determination!)
3 comments:
Lovely photos - he's such a cute baby!! But just wait until he insists on going up the stairs multiple times in a row... take it from me, it gets VERY old quickly!!
Actually, he really does want to go up multiple times! It's as if the stairs are a homing beacon for him. If you set him down on the first floor of the house anywhere, he immediately breaks for the stairs!
Look at the doggie helping spot! So cute!
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