Buddha

Well, my little man has started to crawl. He's been rolling around for a while, and the week before Christmas had just started to get up on his hands and knees and rock. The week in between Christmas and New Years, he started crawling. It's still not very pretty or coordinated. It's more a series of lunges, scoots, and army crawls to get to his desired goal, but it is definitely crawling. Now it's Game On!

What's funny is that when we praise Ellis and say "Good job, buddy. Nice crawl" Tessa gets on her hands and knees and starts crawling and sayd "Look at me. See mommy, see daddy." Ans we say, "Yes, good job Tessa. We don't dare want to leave you out."

Yesterday I was even more shocked. I had out Ellis on the floor in the den. He loves to crawl/roll over the fire place. We have those rubber edge/corner protectors on the brick and he like to chew it. But, when I walked back into the den he was on his KNEES! He had pulled himself up onto his knees while leaning on the hearth. He just looked so grown up. He must have some strong arms, because even before he could crawl, he would pull his body over obstacles using his arms. It was kind of funny to watch.

FYI - Buddha is one of Ellis' nicknames that I use. Tessa uses it sometimes also, but will also inform me that his name is NOT Buddha, he's Ellis. Mike like to call him Kat Daddy, which Ellis just loves. He laughs his little butt off whenever Mike calls him that.