Crawling!

Lucy just barely started crawling this past weekend, a few days after she turned eleven months old! Sam noticed her crawling first, and he excitedly called me and J over to see. Lucy still doesn't like to use crawling as her main means of transportation (she prefers to walk with help at any given moment), but she will crawl if she wants to get (or get into!) something.

Last night, Lucy and I were in Sam's room while he was getting ready for bed. Sam kept scooting his books on the floor out of Lucy's reach, but she kept crawling over to get at them. She finally went all the way over to Sam's bookshelf so she could systematically remove all of the books onto the floor, one by one. Sam said (in a slightly joking but slightly exasperated tone), "Oh no! Why did we ever teach her how to crawl?!?"

And so it begins! We are now entering a new phase of keeping things out of Lucy's little mobile grasp.