crawling progress

Last thursday Linus crawled for the first time in earnest (toward an iPhone on a hardwood floor). The following video from yesterday shows his mastery, after only 72 hours, of diverse terrain (cheap IKEA rug) and of identifying Apple products toward which to crawl (MacBook on the floor).

And just now he chased me around as I swept the kitchen floor along a sigmoid path.

he crawls!

I was at the library yesterday when LF, on a hardwood floor downtown, crawled several feet to get Kate's iPhone. I don't know the details; M should write a post about them. But we're calling it for the afternoon of July 23, 2009.

This morning (and yesterday evening) everyone was trying to make him crawl again: placing objects just out of his reach, enticing him with spinning tops, et cetera. No repeat performance yet. It's possible he forgot what he did to locomote so effectively. Here's what he does instead: lean forward, smack his hands on the floor, start moving one hand in front of the other, drag his hindquarters forward, get frustrated, sit back up.

recent fun involving drinkware

we're not sure why he does this.

grilling season is on

we are admittedly a little late to the game, but: we got a grill. thanks, mom and dad!

games, etc.

With the abatement of such distractions as ear infections and roseola comes a resurgence in such personality-building activities as games, eating and crawling practice. Mama can no longer drink a glass of water without a rogue hand being thrust down into the glass even before she can take it away from her mouth. Linus also enjoys throwing things with great enthusiasm and waiting for spectators to participate in the fun, rinse, repeat. Alas, we do not have a picture of this. Experimenting with foods has also resumed, today's subjects being a couple blueberries and a raspberry. The jury is still out. And finally, he has mastered the backwards crawl and picking himself up from a belly position to sitting. More to follow.

strawberry picking

16 quarts, ~3 hours.