Did that last post say he's crawling?!?!

Yes, it did. But really, what's more important? Crawling or a Tiger's game. Good to know we're on the same page.

May 27, Noah finally figured it out... only, at first, he didn't know he figured it out. He finally started making forward progress, aside from just lunging for things. He'd been doing that for awhile, sprawling out on the floor for any object which met his fancy (which 98% of the time was one of our cell phones). But Friday, he lunged... and lunged... and lunged... and lunged... and then, he was on the other side of the room! Poor Noah, though, apparently didn't remember where he started because he didn't quite realize he could make such advances.

For the next day, he continued to crawl, one lunge at a time, as long as we kept his goal (i.e. cell phone) JUST out of his reach. If we tried putting it on the floor on the other side of the room, he'd just cry, thinking he couldn't make it all the way. But if we led him, like with a carrot-on-a-string, he'd go as far as we'd let him.

That didn't last long. The video below is from May 30. He's basically mobile now. If he sees something he wants, he goes for it. He pulls himself to standing without thinking twice about it. He switches from crawling to sitting and back again like a pro (unless he's on a slippery floor... then he just ends up crawling backward instead of sitting again).




He's started taking steps, too, with our support. We don't often even have to coax him by making him lean really far one way until he picks up a foot. We just hold his hands, and if he's not where he wants to be, he'll slowly start stepping in that direction.

Time to install the baby gates.