She’d been practicing a lot, but mainly doing the wiggle, followed by a sit and roll. But as of February 25 she is officially a crawler. We were all just sitting around in the morning and Deenesh called me over and sure enough - she was suddenly no longer a just-sitting-baby but a crawling-baby.
And Asher, who usually is quite happy to grab stuff out of her hand and abscond, has become her biggest defender. Every time Deenesh or I take something to try to entice her to crawl, he instantly rescues it and brings it back to her.
(Yes, yes. He totally knocks her down. But look! She's crawling!)
A side note – I find it fascinating the extent to which something as ubiquitous as a baby learning to crawl can feel so exciting and wondrous. It’s so true of parenting in general – all those little moments, be they Kiera learning to crawl or Asher rushing into the room to share the new found knowledge “Did you know that dragonflies are born underwater!” – they all feel like amazing revelations at the same time that we know they are so completely commonplace.
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