Making strides

Madeleine is SO determined to figure out how to crawl, and she is making some real headway, although she doesn't seem to realize that - she spends the majority of her efforts howling in frustration at the injustice of being stationary. Today she was actually able to get up on all fours:




although from there she took things in an interesting direction, pushing up onto her legs as if in a bear walk:



and then lunging her upper body forward.



As you can see, all the exercise completely wiped her out - though this nap lasted about two seconds thanks to the sound of Julia clattering away at her kitchen set. Thankfully a quick move to Madeleine's crib proved successful and she is sleeping off her post-workout exhaustion!