Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Oh I am so behind with the blogging


Super-Cute Bunny
Originally uploaded by Temmerling.
Here is a lovely picture of Julia on Easter for you to look at while I talk about locomotion.

Julia doesn't roll over. The doctor says she is completely capable of rolling over, she just doesn't want to. We think she may have rolled over a few times when we were out of the room, but as far as doing it in front of witnesses...

However, she IS mobile. She scoots. On her butt. It is as if the sheer force of her desire for a toy brings her closer to it with no visible effort expanded on her part. One moment she is 3 feet away from something, the next moment she is right next to it, shoving it in her mouth. It is amazing.

Occasionally, while stretching for something, she will fall on her face on the floor. This precipitates screaming, not because she's hurt, but because she's now on her stomach, the one place she hates to be. Normally the screaming is of such a degree and pitch that the mommies can't help but go and pick her up and place her where she wants to be. But last night we decided that frustration was good for her soul, and we let her cry.

And she picked herself back up. She got her legs underneath her, hung out in the crawling position for a few minutes and then pushed herself back into a sitting position! We are so proud of her!

She'll be crawling any day now. All without ever rolling over.

Posted by Trista @ 12:28 PM