learning to crawl

you can't imagine how utterly complex crawling is until you watch a baby learning how, just as molly is doing right now. she's almost got it, she's right on the verge. just a few more little tweaks, a bit of fine tuning, and we'll be chasing her around the house, baby-proofing like crazy! and in the end, we are pretty sure it's not all of our encouraging words or excited clapping (which actually just makes molly stop what she's doing and clap along with us), but harley the pooch who is the impetus for molly learning to crawl. she loves harley so and wants nothing more than to be near her. so we set up the mat in the living room, position the dog, and know that at any moment she'll stop face planting and move forward. just an inch at first, but then the sky's the limit! very exciting times lay ahead...(though i'm not sure that's how harley would describe them)

and because it is father's day, here are some super cute pictures of molly with her dad...and her brand new sippy cup from IKEA. the sippy cup is meant for someone slightly older than miss moo, but she adores it and with the warmer weather it helps keeps her cool what with all the spilling of water down the front of her. in this series of shots, she ends up lunging for the camera, which is the norm right now. she lunges for everything. the dog, zero's glasses, her toys...


send good crawling thoughts our way!!