Crawling....

The above photo brought to you courtesy of "pink eye germ camera"! As I was taking the photo yesterday and brought my eye up to the lens I brought my face back in a shudder of disgust! We never ever sanitized the camera. Mike and I have been taking pictures left right and center this week. No wonder he came down with it 2 days ago. And this isn't the usual digital hold-at-arms-length to see the viewfinder....this is the big mother 8 lb SLR camera that you actually have to put your pinkeye on. At any rate, there is one place that the germs are no doubt.

To get back to the point, Rose is crawling. Not crawl all over the house crawling, but she can move around all over the place. Two little scoots forward, onto the tummy, reach reach, back onto all fours, downward dog, into a siting position, then onto all fours in the other direction. She can get all over the family room easily. She may not be able to get from A to B, but she can certainly move around. And I am surprised that she can go from crawling to sitting with the greatest of ease, because that took Paige forever to master...and she could crawl all over the house well before she could do that. Because of Rose's locomotion she accidentally stumbles across new things...remotes, the tv cabinet, the couch, and Paige's toys (I have to be careful to put the small ones out of reach!). She can't move so fast that I can't scoot off to the bathroom before securing the area and removing the hazards, so that is nice. The above picture shows that she is beginning to pull herself up. She put her one hand on that bottom shelf and was playing with the buttons on the PVR...I probably missed that photo as I was carefully sanitizing the camera. And this morning she was in Paige's room when she happened across Paige's armchair. I saw her with both hands on the seat in the downward dog position. Her greater ease of motion definitely makes her naps shorter and her willingness to explore longer.