Guess who can “officially” crawl now?? Today, Mary Clare was sitting in the middle of my kitchen playing as I finished up a few chores. She decided she wanted a closer look in the dishwasher, so she scooted onto her hands and knees and crawled right over to it, a good four feet away, without even stopping or hesitating! Of course, I dropped to my hands and knees and clapped and cheered, then cried. She stopped, pushed herself back onto her bottom, and just sat there staring at me like I had lost my mind. I typically don’t get that excited over clean dishes, I guess.<\/p>\n
For several weeks she has been able to move around pretty well just by sitting up, flattening herself, sitting back up, flattening herself, etc. over and over until she gets to where she wants to go. (She just couldn’t get that belly off of the ground.) I was afraid that she was headed on the same path as big sister and want to walk before crawling. (Which, thank goodness McCanless finally crawled shortly before she walked…barely.) They both love to be up and on the go. Crawling seemed too slow for both of them.<\/p>\n
Have I mentioned Mel calls her my hood ornament? It’s amazing that she has even learned to crawl as much as I hold her. It began that way because it was easier to deal with McCanless and hold Mary Clare as an infant, then it was a safety issue<\/em> keeping her away from McCanless at times (after the sausage link episode), then that was the only way she would sleep. Now I carry her around with me because she cries for me to hold her….24-7. (Should have seen that one coming.) She is definitely a mommy’s girl, which secretly makes me smile. I figure one day her legs will drag the ground and she will have to walk, right?<\/p>\n I am so proud of my baby girl. It’s all just happening way too fast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guess who can “officially” crawl now?? Today, Mary Clare was sitting in the middle of my kitchen playing as I finished up a few chores. She decided she wanted a closer look in the dishwasher, so she scooted onto her hands and knees and crawled right over to it, a good four feet away, without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}