My Little Crab

Curran is now officially crawling. It ain't pretty, but it gets her from point A to point B. All babies have different crawling styles when they are learning. Little Miss C has decided that she likes to crawl like a crab. She keeps her left leg in the normal crawling position, but she keeps her right leg bent so it can propel her along. It's pretty funny. And cute. At least to her mama. I have a video but it was taking forever {like hours} to upload, so I gave up.

Here is a picture of her little crab leg.

She is also getting really good at pulling up. I was standing in her room folding laundry while she was playing on the floor, and she crawled over to me and used my pants' legs to pull herself up, and she reached her arms up towards me. It was so friggin cute that I thought my heart was going to explode.

We also use her baby doll as bait to get her to practice pulling up. She loves it and will do anything to get it.

Please disregard the rash she has all over her. Her skin is crazy sensitive and she will have an awful rash one minute and then it's gone the next.

An update from WaterBabies class: this morning we had to make them go all the way under the water for the first time. The teacher carefully explained how we were to do it, and she said that the Red Cross has strict guidelines about the process. And you can only "dunk" babies up to 3 times a day, and we used all our times during class. So there go our afternoon plans. J/k...Anyway, we were to sit them on the side of the pool, let them hold onto our thumbs, and then let them "drop" in the water and pull them right back up {we didn't let go of them, of course}. The teacher said you don't want to gradually let them go under because they need to feel the rush of water on their face and learn that that means they need to hold their breath {in case they ever fall in}. She said "Make sure you keep a smile on your face, even if you're screaming on the inside." I seriously had to hold back the tears at the thought of making C go under. I was so anxious about it. But she ended up doing great, and unlike most of the other babies, didn't even shed a tear. She may not be the best kicker in the class, but she sure is laid back in that water. Of course we forgot the camera today, so we don't have any pictures of the dunking. But it's probably just was well because I might have PTSD by looking at them.