Wednesday, April 27, 2011

On the move!

Hello friends! At long last, sweet Stella is crawling. I may try to put a video of her second crawl on YouTube, but I need to figure out how to truncate it before I do it. We missed the first crawl on video, but did get to share it in person with Nate's aunt and uncle at their house in Houston. She had a captive audience!

She crawled for the first time on Saturday, and by Monday morning she was basically proficient. She is on the go, people! It seems like she waited to crawl until she knew she could master it. This is definitely Nate's child...if you are going to do something, might as well be awesome at it. ;)

I am just loving this new phase! It captivates me to get to know her in this new way. I finally get to see what really interests her (colors, textures, objects) instead of what interests her among the limited options I lay out in front of her. Plus, is there anything sweeter in this world than a baby crawling over of their own will and reaching out to you? Talk about melting my heart!

She likes to follow the dogs, and I think she's pretty proud of herself when she catches them. One of the first crawling shenanigans was yesterday when she followed Saul into the laundry room and then dumped out his bucket of water.

Here she is with her partner in crime.





Let the crawling games begin!