Forgive the cliched title, but it’s happened. The thing every parent wants to happen and every parent that has already had it happen tells you that you don’t want it to happen. You know, locomotion… and I’m not talking that bad 80’s song by Kylie Minogue.
Yes, Hayes has started to move. And in the most curious of ways. He’s rolling. He’s doing the log roll across large spans until he hits something hard and unmoving. Then he tries to roll the other way. And worst of all, he’s doing it quickly.
Now we can’t even sit him on the ground without him launching to his stomach and rolling off to the fit-in-his-mouth du jour.
Yup, it’s begun. Once he figures out how to sit back up from there, we’re screwed.
ieatcrayonz says:
August 15th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
Go Hayes! Sitting up from the stomach launch? Give it a few weeks.
adamg says:
August 15th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Aw! Be careful with him on beds now. When our daughter started rolling, I put her down on our (fairly high) bed for a moment. She started rolling toward the other edge and I had to jump to grab her as she fell. And then she looked at me with a huge “let’s do that AGAIN!” grin as I held her a couple of inches off the floor as I tried to recover …
Not-For-Profit-Dad says:
August 15th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
Now watch in amazement as he identifies the most dangerous item in the room, the one item that in a thousand years you wouldn’t want him to touch — it can be an electrical outlet, the precariously balanced glass-top table or the keys to your car. Watch in amazement as he makes a bee-line for said item. It’s like there’s a chip in their head that just tells them. Friggin’ amazing.
Cameron says:
August 16th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
hhahahah… pwnt…
At this point in Lucas’ life the cats got this “OMFG IT MOVES AS WELL?!!?” look on their faces…