Update on Crawling

June 12, 2010

Update on Crawling

B-Boy is getting ever closer to crawling. Neb and I have been working with him, getting him on his knees, etc.

At first, he would just slump on the floor in a fit of giggles… he thought Neb was playing a game. Then I decided to try something different. Usually after he eats, he likes to stand on the floor between my legs with his arms over my legs for support. I decided to try letting him sit on his knees instead. It worked pretty good, and B-Boy got to feel those muscles getting used. After that, we could get him up on all fours, although one of us has to hold his legs in, as he keeps wanting to flail them out like a frog.

This week, we started putting him on all fours more… and then Neb would move his hands/arms in a crawling motion while I moved his legs. It’s a good thing no one was here to record that… cuz we must have looked REALLY funny.  At first, B-Boy would tenatively move his hand… but now, a week later, he is just trucking away moving his hands forward. Boom, goes the right… Bam goes the left…

His legs have not caught up yet… but he is making good progress with his arms. Last night he even balanced on one arm so he could climb on a large board book with the other. It’s just amazing to see how far he has come.

Which reminds me of a funny story… I was talking to his teachers yesterday about where B-Boy is with crawling. We were discussing how to motivate him to get going, so to speak… they were saying to put things he wants out of reach (which is a long way away when you have arms as long as B-Boy). I was telling them what a challenge that is because he is so logical. Too logical. When he wants something at home, he is usually on the living room floor on top of a blanket. He has figured out that he doesn’t have to go get what he wants… he can make it come to him. How? He simply pulls on the blanket until what he wants makes it within his reach.
I know, that is amusing, a chuckle pehaps, but not necessarily funny. Right? Well, that was not the funny part.

His teacher started laughing and said, “Oh my gosh, you aren’t kidding! He did that yesterday. One of the little baby girls, K-baby (who is 4 months old), was laying on a blanket next to B-Boy. He obviously wanted her, because the next thing we knew, he pulled on the blanket – and pulled her right to him.”

I could not stop laughing… I could just see it all happening. The blanket pull, K-baby saying “Wheeeee” and B-Boy saying “Hey pretty girl, how you doin’?”

Heh heh. He is Neb’s son after all.

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