Two steps back

I caught Emelyn’s cold over the weekend. So yesterday I spent the day at home. I’m actually pleased about the whole thing, now, because Emelyn managed her first crawl yesterday, and I was around for it.

As you’d imagine, Azure and I began hoopin’ and hollerin’ in the heat of the moment. She crawled! She crawled! Having since watched the instant-replay footage on our videocamera, I’ll now grudgingly admit it wasn’t the most spectacular display of infant mobility ever seen. Let’s just say that Emelyn’s short program was decidedly cautious, forgoing the triple-axel jump and the lutz for the time being. Still, she did propel herself a good 16-18 inches from her starting position, clearly using both her arms and her legs. You couldn’t exactly categorize her motions as a roll, pivot, or push. So I’d call it a crawl. (Tiny detail: she can only do this going backwards. But that counts, right? Kind of?)