Shira Crawls!

Shira is trying SOOO hard to crawl.

We hadn't really thought about her movement or lack thereof, until we had her 9 month appointment and I realized we should check out the Dr. Sears book to see what the developmental milestones are for this age range. Ahh, the poor forgotten second child.

Anyway, we realized that we should maybe encourage Shira to crawl, since this is around the right time, and neither she nor we had made any effort. Within two weeks she went from not even trying to move out of a seated position to constantly being on her hands and knees. She just didn't want to make the effort without us paying attention ;)

So now she slithers all over the floor, spins herself around, gets on all fours and back to the seated position, goes backwards, but the actually crawling forward seems to be just a couple of days off.

Update:
I wrote this post a few days ago and hadn't had the opportunity to post it yet. As of yesterday, Shira is crawling! She doesn't go very far yet, just a couple steps, then she gets on her tummy to rest, but so far she is moving even further today, than yesterday. I imagine she will be zooming around the entire house in just a couple of weeks.