I have been looking forward to writing this post for a long long time. Something big I mean huge happened in our house last Saturday, October 27. Some of you may or may not know the importance of crawling for brain development. It has been our primary goal for several months now. Liam has been scooting on his belly for quite some time. But he tends to pull himself with his arms and let his legs just kind of drag behind. So we have been doing assisted crawling and cross patterning with him every day. Sometimes this means just having him on his belly and with two people moving his arms and legs in a cross pattern. Sometimes we do that and have him moving forward on the floor to get to a goal. We also have him on hands and knees with two people helping him crawl that way. Or doing sit and stand exercises to help strengthen his legs as well as tactile stimulation and deep pressure massage on his limbs. Pedro and I could not have done all this without the enormous help of Liam's grandpa next door.
So last Saturday, at almost 16 months right before bed, LIAM STARTED TO CRAWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excuse my excessive use of apostrophe marks but this is such good news and we just can't explain how excited we are!!!!
Cause for major celebrating. I've included a picture of Lupe playing the kazoo and the guitar for her brother.
Oh yeah, he also got two new teeth the same day and in addition to crawling figured that he may as well learn how to pull himself up to standing.
And did I mention that he can scroll through flashcards on the iPad?
I mean this week has just been a developmental explosion!
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