Go figure! Julia has been looking like she wanted to crawl for a few weeks now and Courtney and I have been anxiously awaiting that moment. It finally happened tonight and I was the only one who saw it! Tonight was another "Daddy night" and I must admit, I'm getting pretty darn good at this thing.
Now don't get me wrong, this was not a full fledged haul tail across the floor crawl, but it was a big step beyond the belly drag that she's been doing for a couple weeks now.
I placed Julia on the floor in front of Mia, thinking that Mia would motivate her to move. Instead, they both stood there on all fours in a stare down for about two minutes until Mia became bored and walked away to rub her face on the corner of a cabinet.
Julia then turned to me as I was standing over her and that is when she discovered my shoe lace. It didn't take long playing with it to figure out how to untie it. As that lace lie there on the floor with Julia fixated on it, I thought...well, Mia likes to chase shoe laces...
So I began to drag the lace just out of Julia's reach and it happened! She lifted up and took two crawl strides, caught the shoe lace and settled in to play with it for a while. So I moved it again...and again...and again. This continued on for about five minutes and Julia had traveled about ten feet across the kitchen floor.
I wonder if Baby's R Us carries shoe laces. They should...it's a great developmental tool!
-Andy
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You are in trouble now! The simple life of putting Julia in one place and being able to go do something, knowing that she won't move is all over.
Wait till she starts opening cabinet doors and drawers. They do love to play with pots and pans.
It's a shame they grow up so quickly.
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