Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Crawler!

Yes, it's true. I'm typing it out now to have the correct timing for posterity's sake.

PARKER IS CRAWLING!

Literally crawling toward the camera in this picture.

The exclamation point is one of excitement, as in, "My sweet baby is advancing in mobility at an appropriate speed," but also one of, "OMG--he's crawling. My baby is getting super big and a trip to Wal-Mart is in order to buy hundreds of dollars worth of baby safety stuff." Wow--time has flown!

The teeth, or "toofers."

It started off with a mini-crawl that consisted of moving one knee forward and then lunging with "the head" toward whatever object or person he was trying to get to. He's been doing that for a couple of weeks now. Over the weekend, he went into full-force crawling. Like...hand and knee on the right then hand and knee on the left. He's not going lightning speed yet and still a little wobbly, but he's going quick enough. Ryan was out of town from Sunday until today and could not believe the difference in just a couple of days. I'm sure by the weekend, he'll be able to participate in baby crawling marathons, if they exist, and win.


Let the baby-proofing begin!