Bum Swing-Shuffle

I have this song going through my head right now, “come on baby, do the locomotion!” And it’s all because Juliette is, well, locomoting.

No, she’s still not crawling and still having the same issues trying to get from the sitting position to the crawling position. But what she has discovered is that she can move around indirectly by leaning either left or right and getting herself almost onto her belly, then sitting herself back up.

This means she can’t approach things directly. Instead, it’s kind of like watching the Knight in a chess game move around – back to the left 1/2 metre, same back left 1/2 metre (so she’s now about 3/4 metre behind and to the side of where she wants to go, facing away). Then she does another left then right lean-and-sit manoever which brings her more or less where she wants to be. A strong dive/pounce throwing herself forward on her hands usually gets what she wants.

Of course she heads directly to where she knows she’s not supposed to go… such as to the TV where she can grab the DVD cases off the shelf. Or to underneath her swinging chair, which she grabs the supports of and tries to stand up – which usually results in her either banging her head on the pole or tumbling face-first to the mat when she slips. (yes, I’m just Becoming-A-Dad and becoming an inadequate one at that).

I can hardly wait until she starts crawling. NOT!