The Combat Crawl

Sam is now crawling. Well, I should say that he is covering ground. What he is doing looks more like, as his teacher Zoe says, a soldier crawl. You know the one. Where the soldiers try to crawl under really low barriers and keep their heads down. Needless to say Sam is not particularly quiet, but he is surprisingly fast. It is so hard to get used to his mobility. Ben never crawled. He just walked and not until he was about 17 months old. And that worked for us. We would put him down and then leave the room. And then when we finally came back (sometimes hours later--kidding, I'm KIDDING) and he would be in exactly the same place. Not so with Sam. He can cover twenty feet in no time. And he's only ten months old. Doesn't he know how things work around here? We do not encourage mobility in these parts. In fact, when Ben started walking we would periodically stick out our feet in his path. Just to slow him down a little. Again, I'm KIDDING. Sam is going to need a serious attitude adjustment in order to be a member of this family. We are a truly lazy bunch here. Upstarts and energetics need not apply.