Sunday, October 03, 2004

Moving day

William is officially mobile. He's figured out how to move in any direction. The last couple of weeks he's been getting steadily better at pulling his legs up underneath him as he supports himself with his hands. He then slowly rocks forward and back a couple times, and softly lunges forward, pushing off his hands and leaving them back and to his sides. Sometimes he still shifts backwards, but he's really getting the hang of it. He's even picked up on the ability to bring something closer to him this way.

If he's lying on his stomach and reaches for something that's out of reach, he methodically gets up on his hands, gently jerks his legs forward and softly lands on his chest, and he reaches out again to try to grab whatever's in front of him. If he can't reach it yet, he slowly gets back up on his hands and knees again and repeats the process enough times until he can grab onto it with his tiny fingers and quickly bring it to his mouth and chew on it.

No comments:

Post a Comment