September 08, 2003
To Infinity and Beyond
Well, he isn’t crawling yet, but he’s getting awfully darn close. He has now developed the “army crawl” where he will belly crawl across the living room floor likety split, but like he’s going under barbed wire or something. Its quite humorous when he combines it with his “inchworm” move. The “inchworm move” consists of him being on his hands and knees and launching himself forward onto his belling into one big lunge, getting back up on his knees, and repeating - over and over again.
In any case, the kid can move. And he likes to go after anything he is clearly NOT supposed to have. Remote control? Check. Light cord? Check. DVDs? Register covers? Stray lint? Check. Check. Check.
He hasn’t ventured out of the living room yet, but I know that the day will be soon upon us. One small step for baby, one giant leap toward gates and more babyproofing items.
We took him for his 5 month pics on Saturday and we got a good first picture, which really is all you can ask for at this age. It eventually gets to the point where you know your child is deteriorating fast and desperately needs food and/or a nap and you are just like “For the love of God woman - I don’t CARE if he smiles, just take the stupid picture and let’s high tail it out of here before we have a real mess on our hands!”. This usually happens T minus one minute before the full-fledged crying begins. And then you are juggling a screaming child while trying to pay for your pictures while everyone from the waiting room looks at you like you are bad parents.