crawling!

Our boy is crawling!  Yes, it's been a few weeks in the making and some might say he's a little behind the curve, but I've said it before and I'll say it again: I have not been rushing Deacon into anything related to mobility, knowing that once he got the hang of it, it would be GAME ON.

Thankfully, he's still learning and exploring so he's not "gone in 2 seconds" once he starts, but he gets to where he wants to go in due time and he's just fine with that for now.  He is so cute crawling around here, pulling up on things, looking around from his new 2.5 foot perspective.  :)

I love to watch him.

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As you can see, he's still perfecting it, but he's much improved even in the short time between when we took this video a week ago and now.  This video is a good depiction of his love affair with his pacifier, but now he'll crawl to both me and Jeff and to basically anywhere that grabs his attention (i.e., the kitchen, specifically the back door/curtains or the trash can *sigh*, the entertainment center with all the buttons to push *siiigh*, the coffee table where there are so many magazines and a flower vase to get into *siiiiiiigh*).

Our house is SO.NOT.childproof.

But I did put in the outlet covers a couple of weeks ago and I'm just playing the "move it before he can break it or hurt himself with it" game right now.  A cross between putting all MY stuff up/away for him -- something I would like to refrain from in certain capacities -- and having all of MY stuff messed up by my 10.5 month old, also something I'd like to avoid.  :\  I'm hoping to find some middle ground in there.

I hear all you mommies laughing at me.  Go ahead.  You all had to figure out what your happy medium was and so do I.  Here's to finding it before everything is destroyed or my son pokes his eye out!

[btw, he started wearing shoes this week -- SO adorable.Just like his shorts.]   [mobility = fun little forbidden places to find,like Daddy's computer desk]    

mobility 101

No, Deacon is not crawling yet and that's cool with me.  However, he is definitely getting closer and closer to figuring it all out.

He's been standing for a long, long time now -- he'll stand ALL.DAY.LONG.  Earlier this month we started standing him up at the coffee table, ottoman, edge of the couch, etc., and he likes that.  They are just his height and he'll stand there without support forever.

He will actually take a few (very slow) steps if he's standing up, you're holding his hands and he wants to move over to where you are.  That's with support, though.  Without anyone's help, just in the last few weeks or so, he has been perfecting his pilates moves.  :)  He does a mean "plank":

It's so neat to watch him -- how he rolls onto his tummy, gets his feet under him and pushes up.  Then he hangs out there for a minute, looking around.  You can almost see the wheels turning in his head..."now how do I get from here to there?"

The next thing he started doing was putting his right knee back down on the floor, kind of underneath his body, but he keeps his left leg straight so he ends up just back on his tummy again.  And he scoots or rolls to wherever he needs to go.

Just recently, because he now puts that right knee in and down on the floor, he can turn himself to a sitting position.  So he can now sit himself up from his tummy.  That was really exciting when Jeff and I saw him do that the other night for the first time. 

*sigh* He's getting to be such a big boy...