CRAWLING! (The way the baby books say!)

For several weeks now, Nedy's been "crawling" around in a manner that...well, that requires me to put "crawling" in quotes. It's an interesting method dubbed the "lame skateboarder" by our neighbor. You've seen it before or something like it--tummy on the ground, arms grabbing in unison and pulling the body forward while the legs flail about in all different directions. Funny at first, but then you read the baby books and find out that all of these brain connections and crap stem from proper crawling, well, the first-time Mom in me wanted her to crawl the "baby book" way. My little obsession with Nedy crawling (without quotes) was supported by Nedy's Physical Therapist who gave us all sorts of ways to work with Ned during playtime in a way that she didn't realize was actually work. (For the few weeks before, we'd taken a very "it's PT time" approach to working with her and she...didn't respond as we would have hoped. She's a tad stubborn. Just a tad.)

Anyway, our new approach employed since PT on Tuesday has worked very well and she's now doing all sorts of crouching and bending and twisting that she had so much difficulty with before. And she began crawling (without quotes!) with Dan lightly holding her legs in position from behind with no complaining. After watching me crawl in front of her a few times, she is now off and crawling--baby book crawling!--without any help. Every once in a while she reverts to her old "lame skateboarder" habit, but we say "tummy up!" and she gets right back into position. She's getting faster and faster, even on the slippery hardwood. I love watching her confidence build.

YAY for PT.

And YAY!!! for Nedy, the Baby Book Crawler. :)