When it rains...

Now that Little Mister is army-crawling and desperately trying to really-crawl, he is giving us little tastes along the way of what is to come. For example, tonight, in the span of one ten-minute crawling session, he showed me two new things he is trying out, now that he is getting brave with his arms:

1) On all fours, he lets go with one arm and kind of swings it out to get a little momentum. Doing this, he tucks his opposite leg under his body farther, so that he sits down on his hip, with his "stuck" hand remaining where it is. This may be a little hard to visualize, so I'll spell it out -- he can almost get into a sitting position by himself. If he can figure out how to scoot his "stuck" hand in towards his body, he would be there already.

2) On all fours, he can let go with one arm and reach up over his head to grab stationary objects, like couches and bouncy-seats. This means that, before too long, he will also be pulling himself up.

I feel like a big blog-slacker because I haven't gotten a video or some other photographic evidence of these things yet, or of his army-crawling -- I promise it will be here by the end of the week. To entertain you in the meantime, Dad helped to take pictures of *another* new skill he is getting good at -- feeding himself (please see below). If I load up the spoon and present it to him, he can take it from me and, by himself, guide its contents into his mouth and slurp happily away until the food has disappeared. It's actually not quite as messy as it sounds.