Forward motion

I am happy to update that Connor has indeed crawled: we witnessed the event Sunday morning. There have been a couple of times over the past few days where he seemed to have moved further than usual while we were distracted watching Jamie ping-pong around the room. But then we actually saw him crawl forward a couple of feet. I think here, as in so many cases, motivation was key.

Connor has a fuzzy blanket with which he likes to sleep. It is a small, square, giraffe-print plush blanket with a giraffe head and it can be rubbed vigourously along Connor's cheek to encourage him to sleep. We call this his "woobie," a reference to the movie Mr. Mom. Jamie, of course, has his beloved "orange woobie," a random orange T-shirt, which is very, very, very dear to him and Connor now has his giraffe woobie and he is very attached to it indeed. So anyway, it was in a quest for giraffe woobie that Connor finally worked out the mechanics of crawling. Actually, though, what he does now is move forward to a point where he thinks he is in range and then flops on his belly and reaches for the desired object. In this first case, however, he miscalculated slightly and when he flopped, the woobie remained about an 1/8th of an inch away from his little fingers. Good to be able to crawl, but good also to have people to help you out sometimes.