Houston we have a crawler!

The question that we have been asked a lot lately is "is Ethan crawling yet?" and most the time the answer would go something like this "not all the way he rolls or scoots backwards he can turn 360 but not  forward."  The day he turned 9 months old we thought it would happen.  Before he would never use his arms and that was his main problem but that day he started picking them up and moving forward.  He would get maybe a hand and a knee moved before he would collapse on the floor.  The next day Jenny and the girls came over to go play at Old Settlers park near our house.  We had lots of fun as the girls raced Tucker played on the play structure and swung.  Ethan even went down the slide with the help of Aunt Jenny and Matt.  So after a full day at the park on the ride home he started to dose off.  Normally we wouldn't care but we were so close to home sometimes he just gets that five minutes of sleep and then refuses to nap.  You should have seen Matt and I singing and making funny noises just to keep him awake.  He had the funniest delirious laugh as he tried to fight sleep all the while pathetically trying to laugh at us.  Of course we hit every red light home but we made it without him fully falling asleep.  As soon as we walked in the door he was asleep on Matt's shoulder so we put him down for a much needed nap.

When he woke up later he was in a great mood and wanting to play with his toys.  He has a huge area on our rug in the living room to play on since we don't have much furniture in it yet.  Matt and I were sitting on the couch and made the comment "oh look how cute he is crawling to Tucker!" followed by "OMG he is crawling."  Sure enough our little man decided that he was going to crawl and just like that he did.  The funny thing was the thing that was driving him to get to Tuck was not Tuck himself but a bone he was chewing on.  Go figure he has all these cool toys and a bone is what gets him up and going.  We caught it on video afterwards so everyone can see.  We had to use my phone as bait because obviously we don't want him playing with Tuckers yucky bone.  It was a great victory and he looked at us clueless as to what he had exactly done that was cause for such a commotion!

Sliding with Auntie Jenny

Everyone slide!

This is not the video I talked about earlier in the blog.. it was too big and wouldn't download so this is Ethan crawling before bed!  He was going for my keys :) well he took a slight detour for his A's hat.