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Friday, December 10, 2010

Our baby is crawling!

Yes, it is true...Silas is crawling! He has been close for awhile, but he really started over Thanksgiving while my mother was visiting. Since then, he is always moving! 

I wanted to post about this earlier, when it first happened, but was waiting for a good picture. Unfortunately, it is difficult to get a picture or video of him because he always stops crawling when we are trying to document it. Typical!

His crawl isn't a stereotypical crawl...it's almost more of an army crawl. He uses his forearms and pulls himself forward. We call it the caterpillar crawl because he sticks his butt in the air and uses his arms to pull himself forward--in the same way a caterpillar would. Whatever you might call it, it is definitely cute!

With the crawling around, he is also crawling up. It sounds weird, but he is trying to climb on things even though he can't stand, yet. One of us will hold him, and as we do, he will jump up and down on us and then try to climb all over us. We have a feeling that standing/walking will be coming soon!

Here is our happy little crawler!