JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Elisabeth learned to crawl yesterday! Hurray! Our children tend to crawl “late”, as pediatricians count. Our first child Abigail started crawling right before her first birthday. Michaela, number two, probably our most mobile and kinesthetic child so far, started crawling at nine months, not that early.

At ten months, Baby Elisabeth didn’t seem too interested in mobility. She could push herself backwards, even get into a sitting position backwards, but she could not cruise or crawl. For weeks, even months, she had been able to get into the crawling position, but then she would fall flat to the floor after she moved her arms. It seemed her hips needed to catch up somehow. I shouldn’t be distressed. After all, the late crawling genes probably came from me: my mother says I never crawled, and I didn’t walk until fifteen months of age. But I confess I was getting concerned.

Friday night Ted prayed a blessing for Elisabeth, that she would learn to crawl, and I sensed something in my spirit resonating with his words. That day I also started putting Elisabeth in disposable diapers (more on that later…), to see if perhaps the bulk of the cloth diaper and cover were hindering her movement.

And on Saturday, she started to crawl! Slow and timid at first, Elisabeth crawled towards toys. Forbidden fruit such as the telephone motivates her most! At the beginning she looked like she was taking her legs along for the ride: they didn’t seem to have a wide range of motion, just being pulled along. It was cute.

Here begins my weblog and I feel like a baby beginning to crawl, taking my legs along for the ride, learning, slowly…here I go…..