Crawl, Y’all!

Becky made her crawling debut today!  Only a few hours before, I had told my Uncle Bruce that one ambulatory child was enough to keep me busy for a while – Becky must have decided that I could handle one more!  I am very happy for her sake, since she’s been frustrated by her inability to follow her sister into the remote regions of the living room.  I’m glad she’ll no longer have to flop and flail in humiliation as her sister crawls circles around her.  She will, however, need to catch up to her sister’s speed.  When Susie saw Becky’s inaugural crawl toward my lap, Susie hurriedly tossed away her toy and raced from the other side of the room in an apparent attempt to beat her to me.  They ended up finishing neck-and-neck (or rather, bald head-and-bald head).  We gave Becky a big round of applause, and she responded by beaming proudly.  Susie answered with her infamous growl.  It could have been a growl of dismay that we weren’t clapping for her, but I’d rather assume it was a growl of joy that now she has a crawling companion.   

I unfortunately didn’t get Becky’s first crawl on video.  I took the following video yesterday, prior to her new development.  You can see here that she was quite close to crawling; she was already doing the army-crawl where she would drag herself along by scooching her elbows forward.  In the background, you’ll hear Sesame Street on TV.  But don’t be fooled – if you hear a gutteral, clearing-your-throat growl, it’s not Big Bird or Elmo or any other puppet.  It’s just our little muppet, Susie!