Today Aubrey and Claire both took their first tentative crawls! Well, Claire wasn't so tentative. She looks like a little grasshopper - pushed up on her hands and does a full push up (on toes, not knees), then starts revving her legs up and off she goes! She moves her knees back and forth a few times like little pistons before she actually is able to push off of them and it looks like she hops forward towards the toy in her sights (picture a car jerking forward when the clutch is released while in gear).
Aubrey, on the other hand, is more of an inch worm. She sees the toy she wants, and reach-reach-reaches out for it. Stretches her entire body from fingertips to toenails. And when she realizes that she can't reach it that way, she keeps both hands straight out, lifts her little bum up in the air, pulls her knees under her, and slowly pushes off from her toes - inching forward until she can grasp the toy.
I thought babies were supposed to sit up before they crawled... but our girls aren't sitting alone yet. Claire has been really fussy lately; I had been thinking she was about to do something new. She has also been saying "g-g-go" and it wasn't until today that I though - maybe she really meant GO! My life is about to get a little more hectic! Watch out house - the girls are on the loose!
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