Clay

After nearly two months of failed attempts at crawling Clayton finally began to crawl yesterday. He's been very mobile for some time now, but not crawling in the traditional way. He started out on his stomach, pushing so hard with his arms that he moved backwards instead of forward. This frustrated him to no end as he saw the object he was trying to get to moving further and further away. Since then he's mastered the art of moving from side to side, going from the crawl position to the sitting up position and vice versa, a bear crawl and of course rocking back and forth on his hands and knees. Somehow he seemed to be getting all over the place but he still wasn't crawling forward on his hands and knees, until yesterday that is. Evidently all he needed was proper motivation. He saw my tennis shoes on the floor and decided he wanted them bad enough that he was finally going to do it. Sam kept moving them further away to keep him crawling. I'm just thrilled that he did this before Sam left. I thought for sure that he would start crawling while Sam is in Alabama and it made me so sad to think that he might miss it.