Luke's Special Crawl

Luke is transitioning from crawling to walking.  Before I forget the cute things he did while crawling I figure I should probably write them down and even get a video.  When Luke first started crawling he wasn't very good.  He knew that he needed to move his arms and legs but he didn't understand that it was his hands and feet that needed to be on the floor and not his belly.  So when he would attempt to crawl he would be in a belly down skydiving position waving his arms and legs and not going anywhere.


As his crawling skills improve he does his special crawl less and less as he focuses on what he wants and how to get there.  Instead, he now does it only when he gets really excited.  If he is on his belly when I come home from work I am greeted with a big grin and Luke hits overdrive without going anywhere.

Most of me is looking forward to Luke walking.  Being able to put him down when at the store without his hands getting all dirty is going to be awesome.  However, I'll miss how slow he moved when first started crawling and being able to take our eyes off him as he stayed where we left him.  Another thing I'm not looking forward to is the return of baby gates.  We have them at the bottom and top of our stairs and for the last 9 months we haven't needed them as Alyce has mastered stairs and no longer plays on them.  Having to open and close them for the next 18 months is a drag.

Crawling Coming Soon

Over the past few days Luke has moved towards crawling.  He has been getting up on his hands and knees and trying to move.  By trying to move he has three different ways of making some progress.  The first way is when Luke pushes off on his knees and his arms collapse.  This yields forward progress of two inches.  With the second method Luke pushes off of his hands and slides his knees backwards.  Backward progress of about two inches (when on a slick floor).  The third and final mode of motervation has Luke on his hands and knees again but this time he just rocks back and forth.  Total progress zero inches.

If you take the three types of movement and put them together Luke is on the cusp of crawling.  I think that he will be crawling on his hands and knees by Christmas if not before.