It’s official. Life as we *currently* know it is over. Friday morning, June 26, Elise became a crawler.

I’m thinking her “lazy baby” status is much like Maia’s. She just doesn’t do things until she can do them. She doesn’t spend much time in the pre-stages, I guess is what I’m saying. Friday morning after changing her diaper I was watching her get up on her knees one moment and the next she had taken three little steps forward on hands and knees.

Today, just over a week later, she came scooting out of the playroom (looking for lunch I think) slap-slaping her little hands across the floor with knees not far behind. She can go several feet now and it will only get, um, better? from this point on.

Now I have to hurry up on a better baby-proof of the house. Elsie is a very mouthy child. After her crawl across the living room floor I managed to pull a cat-hair wad (ick) and a rubber door stopper out of her mouth. Sigh. So this is what “normal” babies are like.