How it all comes together

Watching a baby learn to crawl is an amazing process. Lily is learning how to move her body...how to get up on her hands and knees, how to wiggle her hips, how to put one hand in front of the other. She started by reaching for things while she was sitting up and when she realized that she couldn't reach all that she was interested in, she started leaning closer and closer towards those things. She ended up flopping on her belly and began to move her legs behind her. She started pushing herself backwards and then around in a circle. Bit by bit, she's getting closer to being able to crawl. I figure that she'll be crawling any day but I've thought that since December and while we are closer than we were before Christmas, it still seems like we are aways off. No matter, it's endless fascinating to watch her body develop and gain strength and besides, crawling babies are busy babies and I'm pretty content with my static little Lily.