We’ve mentioned several times that Leilani has been “crawling” by pulling and pushing herself forward on her stomach. She got fairly good at it, and except for certains surfaces she got relatively quick at it. I was even afraid she wouldn’t learn to crawl on her hands and knees if she learns to walk soon, as she’s showing signs of doing.
But two days ago, on Saturday, she did the first real crawling that I’ve seen. We had fed her and put her on the floor to play while we were eating. She practiced being on hands and knees, and instead of falling on her stomach as usual, she moved the arms and knees in the right order to move forward. It was only a few “steps” but defintiely regular baby crawling. Showing the usual quick progression of babies, my wife witnessed her go half-way across a room earlier today, and I saw it too for myself this afternoon.
Actually, just minutes before the crawling, we looked over at her on the floor and saw her sitting. We stared at each other for a second and realized we’d both been at the table, so she must’ve gone from belly-crawling to sitting by herself. That was kind of a surprise because I’d never seen her practice that or do a similar motion. Her friend Ian is really good at it, going forward and back to sitting repeatedly, and maybe she learned from watching him. She did it again on Sunday when I was filming her, so I’ll try to get the evidence posted here.
Update: Here’s the video: