Last week I brought Camper with me to piano lessons. My students had been asking to meet him, and although I knew he’d be a huge distraction, I brought him and La La along to help so that I’d actually be able to teach. Speedracer had his lesson first so that he could play with the baby, and while I was teaching Ballerina I looked over to see Camper CRAWL. For the first time. It was fast and furious, and in the direction of a basketball toy that Speedracer brought out to show him. He then spend half an hour laughing harder than I’ve ever heard him laugh as Speedracer popped the teeny basketball into the air trying to get it into the teeny basket.
The next few days were rather difficult. Camper had felt the freedom but couldn’t quite get it together again. He was overthinking it. He fussed a LOT, wanted us to help but wanted to get around on his own. Poor baby. He finally got it together at church while John and I were teaching our primary lesson. One minute I was trying to get him to eat some banana and the next he was crawling under the table towards Daddy. The last few days have been quite interesting, full of actually using the baby gates we purchased a couple of months ago, moving things that could fall on him and watching him get rug burn on his baby knees as he explores the living room. Today he crawled over to the corner in the living room by the door and just gabbed away happily, looking at me every couple of minutes as if trying to say, “Look at me! I’m in a new corner!”
I can’t believe he’s finally crawling. I don’t know if he’s super late, but he was definitely later than the other babies we know. I wasn’t worried, actually I just enjoyed the freedom of plunking him down on the floor and going to make his noodles without fear of him falling down a staircase or getting himself trapped under the couch. No more. He even crawls around in his crib, which is completely novel to me. I love going in and seeing what part of the crib he’s decided to curl up in before falling asleep.
It’s a whole new phase. Welcome to crawling.
