Crawling OR He Has a Mind of His Own

Ben has begun demonstrating his independence! He started crawling last week, a few days shy of his 8-month birthday. Although he's been up in the crawl position for 2 months, he never quite got the hang of forward motion. Early last week, he started crawling, but with his belly still on the ground. He looks like he's swimming. He moves his arms and legs in the right sequence, just not in the typical crawl position. And, he moves fast and has an interest in going places independently... the bathroom to play with his bathtub, to follow me to let the dog out, his favorite un-babyproofed location (the phone jack in his room), to play with our feet when we're standing near by.

Here's a shaky video for your viewing pleasure:



And another video where I'm hoping he'll demonstrate his newfound crawling, but does a lot of spinning on his stomach.