Crawling, cruising, and climbing! Jack is in to it all! It seems to have happened in the blink of an eye. One minute I was holding this helpless baby boy in my arms and the next I am watching him move all over the house independently. Where did my baby go?
I am amazed at how quickly he can move (both physically and mentally, we have one short attention span here!). He has definitely mastered the whole crawling thing and has begun cruising around the living room holding on to the sofa, his toys, our legs, you name it! He wants to be on the go constantly.
Climbing recently started too. I think he is abnormally strong for his age and size. He can pull himself up on anything! We have a side table in the living room that has a bottom shelf. I have all of his books on the shelf so that they are at an easy level for him to grab and "read". The other day, I watched as he pulled himself up on the shelf and proceeded to crawl from one end to the other! He has also crawled under the bottom shelf and gotten stuck (spacial relations aren't his strong suit at this point)!
These days he goes full throttle from the time he wakes up until the time he goes back down (for naps or for bed at night). Keeping up with him is most definitely a full time job. He is in to absolutely everything, he loves to explore, and he is an expert taste tester of anything he can get his tiny little hands on. The baby gates have come out, breakables have been put away, and furniture keeps disappearing (every time he bumps his head on something I take it away...Dave says that he's going to come home from work one day and all we will have in the living room will be pillows!). I am still finding things around the house to "baby proof"...he keeps me on my toes!
