Tytus is officially crawling now! He's been scooting around for several weeks (mainly backward), and he's been perfecting his skills in pulling up without any help. Last Wednesday he took his first two crawls forward at home and then did it again at Ashley and Kelly's apartment before Overflow. Then when Uncle Byron and Aunt Michelle came to visit he traveled much further to reach one of his favorite toys. Now that he can crawl it's fun to put him in the room where I'm working, and he can check things out on his own. He's still figuring out that he can crawl into different rooms in the house and follow noises/voices on his own. I've taken him around the house by putting a toy out in front of him and having him follow it, and it's so interesting to see him stop and take notice of things from a whole new perspective. One thing that we don't ever take notice of are the air conditioner vents near the floor. They're really loud when the air is running, and Tytus will crawl right up to them to look at them and attempt to pull up on one of the rungs to get a better look. Eventually he'll find that it's nearly impossible and move on to something more interesting.....like Mia's food bowls. Yuck! Because they're pink and plastic and look like a toy he might play with, we're in the process of relocating them for a while.
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| Oh ya know.....Uncle Byron teaching Tytus some new tricks |
Crawling has definitely strengthened some new muscles which has allowed Tytus to become much more adventurous in all kinds of ways. Almost every time I put him down for a nap or bedtime he's sitting up before I can even get the blanket over him. I'll normally leave the room and give him some time to explore his bed, but eventually he'll be stuck or frustrated and need some assistance laying back down to go to sleep.
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| While he should be sleeping..... |
Some of his other favorite things to do are pulling up and cruising around his wooden activity cube (thanks Aunt Karen!), crawling to his bookshelf to pull out his favorite books, and pulling up on the little white step stool in his room.
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| He likes to get a taste of what he's pulling up on. Yum! |
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| About to take off around the cube. |
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| His favorite book! He loves lifting up the flaps and hearing "peekaboo!" |
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| Reading a few books before nap time. |
I'll normally give him some play time by himself in his room and set a timer to let him know I'll be back when it goes off. It's a little egg timer from Aunt Amanda's baby shower, so you can hear it ticking and it has a very distinct ring to let him know the time is up. He loves trying to get the timer! One day I peeked in on him playing and saw that he had knocked the timer off of the white step stool and it was just on the other side. He was standing up trying to decide how he would get to it. Rather than cruising around or crawling to get it, he decided that it would be best to reach
over the step stool. He was grunting and flailing with all his might and yet his arm was just not long enough to reach it. It was so hard not to laugh or try to help him, but he eventually found a way to scoot forward after much reevaluating. The sweetness of success!
We went out to the deck today and it took him a while to get used to crawling on the rough surface. He would lean forward, then sit back down, lean forward, then sit back down. He just wasn't sure if he was up for it. Then he realized that he could get over to the chairs and pull himself up to have a better look around. So he went for it! Oh, and it was worth it. He got a kick out of watching Mia run around the yard, cars go by, and all the while he could take himself where he wanted to go.
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| Cruising around the back deck. |
