Joey…
…and now Caroline.
Caroline is a bit younger, though. {Caroline is 6 months, and Joey was 7 months.} And Joey was actually crawling, though backwards only.
When the boys rolled over the first time, it was sort of a fluke – they did it once, and then they didn’t do it again for several months. Caroline did it once, and then did it over and over and over again.
It’s her main mode of transportation these days. I put her down on the living room floor, and she entertains herself quite well. She can do the army crawl backwards, she can do a 360, and she can roll. With that, she gets just about anywhere.
She’s still pretty random about it, probably because when she sees things, she can’t go forward and get them so she has to be happy with whatever she can reach. But she is certainly interested in a lot of things. It’s a whole new world down there.
She can do hands and knees, but doesn’t know what to do with it. She can sit just fine on someone’s lap, but she still eventually falls over in the grocery cart so I don’t think she’s quite ready for sitting on our hard wood floors yet.
People talk about babies who will sit on a blanket and play for hours. I never had one of those babies. The boys all sat and crawled almost simultaneously. And now Caroline’s on the go, too.