First Crawl!

I am a little late in sharing this. Ellis has been crawling for almost two weeks now and now is so efficient at it that Mama is having a hard time keeping up. I managed to grab the camera for her first official crawl, however. In this video she's wobbly and easily distracted, but I can assure you all that she now reaches her targets with the proficiency of a heat-seeking missile.

Ellis had been scooting across the floor on her belly for many months and we thought she might skip crawling because she learned to stand up and take steps around the furniture pretty quickly. Her physical therapist educated us on why crawling is so important and gave me exercises and activities to do with her to encourage that. It worked! After a short time, she learned how much fun it can be and how easy it is to get away from me.

Ellis has also enjoyed visits recently from pretty Miss B, a BFF in the making, little Miss L, who was very concerned that Ellis was missing her froggy pacifier, and the hilarious E&T, who are endlessly entertaining. We love company!