Friday, July 15, 2011

It's official...she's CRAWLING!!!

For weeks now P has been getting more and more mobile.  It first started with her rolling from one end of the room to the other, then it was scooting backwards on her tummy.  This slowly progressed to getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth.  Over the course of the last two weeks she has mastered crawling backwards but has shown little interest in crawling forwards.  She will usually get up on all fours, take one step forward, and then either sit back down on her bottom or lunge forward for whatever toy she wants, and in the process, collapse onto her tummy....that is until today!!!  This afternoon while she and I were playing on the floor she finally crawled forward and didn't collapse onto her tummy.  She saw a toy that she wanted and she went after it.  I was so excited because after weeks of saying"I'm going to be surprised if she isn't crawling in the next few days" I had come to accept that this child of mine was just going to crawl backwards wherever she wanted to go.  It was such perfect timing that she would decide to show off her new skill today because Matt and I were both here to see it.  I keep saying that I need to baby-proof our house, but now that she is really crawling I guess I need to be doing it sooner than later!

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