Saturday, September 18, 2010

Living (crawling) doll

At about 8.00 am this morning, Thumper worked out how to crawl on her hands-and-knees, you know, traditional-style.


She started crawling commando-style back in May, at 8 months of age, which is very cute to watch but makes clothes very hard to wash (although does a good job of dusting the floors).

She's pretty slow and clunky-looking when she crawls on hands-and-knees - it looks just like one of those battery-powered crawling dolls; so she reverts back to commando-style when she wants to move somewhere fast. But I'm sure she will master it in no time and then it will be fun for one (Thumper) and all (BallFiend) as they play a higher-paced game of crawl-chasey around the house.

It probably also means that Thumper is not that far off walking, maybe only a month away - as much as I hope not! This prediction is based on a very scientific study with a sample size of one: BallFiend spent months commando-crawling, then after about four weeks of learning to crawl on hands-and-knees, he progressed to standing and walking.

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