Conrad has been working on his crawling coordination for some time now. His first signs of crawling were more than a month ago when he was trying to paddle/swim across the carpet. He wasn't very successful in getting anywhere with that technique so he moved on to pushing his chest off the floor and trying to get on all fours.For the last several weeks, he has been getting on all fours and rocking back and forth. One of three things usually happens: 1) he tries to crawl but only his arms are coordinated, the back legs are not in sync with the arms yet so he belly flops, 2) he decides to sit back up at an angle and does this repeatedly to get where he wants to go or 3) he straightens his back legs and has his butt in the air before going to his side to sit down.
At daycare today, he apparently performed this third technique but looked underneath his belly at his back legs... he also saw his face in the mirror and started making faces at himself or what he thinks is a "friend in the mirror." We appreciate the notes his teachers write to us each day about his daily happenings and cute moments from each day.
Last night, he finally got most of his coordination together (see his pics for proof!). Barry kept moving his favorite toy of the moment (the edge piece off of our kitchen mat) to motivate Conrad to crawl. All the parts are not moving smoothly yet so he would stop to rest/reset and then pick it up again for a few more steps.
I guess this means we need to get ready to install some baby gates around the house!
2 comments:
Yay Conrad!!! Way to go, go, go!
Isn't each new thing so much fun! Now you get to worry about keeping your floor SPOTLESS so he doesn't stick all the small little things you usually can't see in his mouth!
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