Prelude To A Crawl

Xander is an active boy. He started rolling over pretty early. In fact, while he was still in day care, the folks there told us that he was rolling over onto his stomach faster than kids that were months older than him. That was in full display on the day of the daycare Halloween parade, when Xander, or rather Darth Xander (he dressed up as Darth Vader for his first Halloween) was on the play mat with four other infants. They were all placed on their backs. But while the other four remained relatively motionless, on their backs, Xander quickly rolled over onto his stomach. Mom and dad took this as a good sign. Soon thereafter, he started what mom and dad call "Supermans," where he be on his stomach, but lift his hands and feet in the air like he was Superman. Good times.

Fast forward a month or so, and now Xander was sitting up without support. Then he started to be able to scooch himself forward on his bum, and rotate himself in place on his bum, and then he started pulling himself onto things from a sitting position. Last week, however, was big. Xander started scooching backwards on the carpet. He would lean forward from a seated position, and push himself backwards. Last Thursday, he pushed himself a good 10-15 feet in as many seconds before getting his legs wedged around one of the poles to his play mat. Had he been older, a move like that would have deeply hurt him for several minutes, but luckily he is still an infant and was okay. However, that doesn't mean he wasn't royally pissed about having his progress stopped.

Does all of this mean he is on the verge of crawling? Well, not necessarily. Our pediatrician told us that some babies skip crawling and move you to straight to walking. Which would be fine. But Xander likes being close to the ground, so crawling may very well be in his future, and he is seemingly sowing new seeds towards that goal each and every day.