Olivia's mobile!

As the post suggests, Olivia is crawling! Now it's official. Unlike Robin, Olivia's progression to crawling has been much more gradual (and not fueled by a motivation to chew on a dog toy).


It started with Olivia being able to do sort of a backwards shuffle, pushing herself back with her hands in the crawling position. Very frustrating. I can understand. There is where I want to go, and the more I try, the farther away I get.

Then, she learned to push herself from the crawl position to the sit position, which was a little more encouraging for her in pushing her in the right direction.

After that, she almost learned to crawl, but she kept her left leg crossed in front of her and could never quite make it more than she could reach. Of course every once in a while, on a smooth enough floor, she'd say nuts to it and use her arms to drag her bottom across the floor like a cute little orangutan. She still does this when the mood is right for a little palm-walking.


Today I think was the best I can make a line in the sand and say yes, she is crawling. Towards dog food. I guess it's time to get the gates up again.