Crawling at 14.5 months

I'm sure it's been so long that most of our regular readership have given up hope, and I am now just talking to myself, but so much has happened in the last 4 weeks!

First there was the business of PACKING, and then the craziness of MOVING, followed by the labor of UNPACKING (as well as the assembling of furniture and the running of errands in conjunction with the caring of a toddler). Also the more that happens, the harder it is decide what to start talking about.

In addition to the changes in our lives due to our relocation into our first home, there have also been some major changes in Ruby! The most exciting of this past week is that Ruby, at the tender age of 14.5 months, began to crawl!

The Long-Awaited First Crawl:



At first, Ruby's crawling constituted of maybe 1-2 feet of forward motion. However, over the past couple of days, she has really taken off! Now Ruby FOLLOWS me around the house! While this may be 7-month-old news to most of my fellow mommies with 14-month-old babies, it is a completely novel concept to me and quite a sight to see Ruby in a crawling position. Although for most parents there is a sense of dread when their babies become mobile enough to get into everything in the house, we have been waiting for Ruby to crawl for so long that we are practically encouraging her to get into things! We'll see what happens when the novelty wears off.

Updates to come on the move and new house!