July 11, 2009

• He Crawled…

  That little faker finally crawled for real today.  He could do one or two steps before, but then he would flop down and whine and cry until we got him whatever we wanted.  He played Mama and Papa.  Today, I just refused to give in…and then up he went and crawled over to the object, crying the entire way.  I KNEW he could do it.  He kind of does a mix of classic crawling and crawling on all fours (hands and feet)….he skipped the army crawling part.

  So I guess now that he knows it works….he’ll whine/crawl over to something he can pull up on and then just cruise around.  I put him across the room and tried to get him to crawl to me.  Instead, he pulled up on a nearby sofa and cruised around the perimeter of the room until he reached me.  oh well.  At least I can check off crawling…..they never said he had to crawl well!!!

  So now the crawling, pulling up, cruising combo is a little bit of trouble since I can’t take my eye off of him at all.  I did for a minute today to put dishes in the sink and came back to find him holding onto our floor lamp, shaking the heck out of it.

  What to do if your footed jammies make it too slippery for cruising?  Tie the legs above your butt!!!

    

  Has anyone tried Flor tiles?  One of the mama’s in my playgroup had them in her house.  They’re sort of like the rubber ones, but they’re padded carpted tiles that stick onto the floor with non-toxic adhesive stickers.  And when one gets dirty, you can just remove that one tile, wash it in the washing machine and stick it back on.  It comes in different colors and patterns too.  We were thinking about getting that to replace our rubber ones because BB just rips them up and chew on them.  And the only way to wash them is to wipe them…which doesn’t seem clean enough for me.  The Flor tiles are kind of pricey though…they run about $7 per 19″x19″ tile.  But they did seem to stick well…I had a hard time prying a tile up.  And they’re so much softer and cushier.

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