Crawling (the socially acceptable “real” way) Finally!

Eli is officially crawling now – on hands and knees, not just commando style. Last week Thursday (April 20th), Jon and I were sitting in the tv room and Eli was on the floor playing, when he got up on his hands and knees and crawled across the floor to me and stood up! Jon and I clapped and congratulated our little man, and he looked so proud!

The day before Grandma Amanda had been taking care of Elijah and had let him play with his diaper off for a bit. He didn’t care for the commando (literally!) crawling style then (rug burn in sensitive spots, ouch) and took to being on his knees and elbows until his diaper was back on. Maybe that inspired him to keep crawling in an elevated position – who knows! Either way, since that Thursday night Eli has been getting more and more confident on his hands and knees and been doing less and less of the army crawl. So far he’s pretty close in development as Jon was when he was little – Jon started crawling properly around 11 months, and Eli too! If he stays with Jon’s schedule that means he should be walking in about 3 more months. Watch out world, here comes Elijah!