Skipping Steps

Noah has decided that he'd rather skip crawling and go straight to walking. Every chance he gets he pulls himself up to standing and cruises. Some would say that by skipping the crawling stage Noah will miss some vital motor skill development. Matt and I think that Noah's case is different. He seriously army crawls and does get up on his knees to occasionally do the traditional crawl. He just doesn't want to take the time to work on it when he can be working on walking instead. Today I helped him get his belly off the floor a couple of times and he crawled masterfully...it just takes so much energy to get that big belly off the floor. That said, we are encouraging him to continue crawling, but we aren't knocking him over every time he tries to walk either (although I seriously contemplated it Elisa!)

Looking so much like a little boy and not as much like a baby...mixed feelings to say the least.

Yes, the fact that large tupperware containers of Noah's clothes have become part of our furniture lately does give him more things to pull up on. He'll be so sad if I put them away...

So sweet! This is actually the first step of Noah using Matt to pull up to standing.