Crawling!

In the past two days, Sylvia has started to crawl. It's fantastic - I can put her on the floor, she'll crawl to a book, and then she'll sit, lie, and roll, all while investigating and then chewing on the book. This can go on and on while I happily write emails sitting near her on the floor. What's interesting to me is how much different this new crawling experience is than with Andy. With Andy, I was relieved that he could finally go where he wanted so desperately to go -- it meant that we did not have to be constantly moving him (and I mean CONSTANTLY) to satisfy his requirement of movement and investigation. But of course, with crawling came the ability to go straight to the most dangerous thing in the room, like electrical cords. In fact, for the first two years of his life, at least, Andy would locate and make a beeline for the most dangerous thing in any room within 2 seconds of entering it. Sylvia (well, so far) does nothing like that. She moves directly toward the toy that I've intentionally placed on the rug for her enjoyment, and does exactly what a baby is supposed to do with it - investigate and chew! Those who do not have boys will probably not understand my point here.... I couldn't seem to capture her crawling - every time I got the camera out she stopped to watch me and I eventually gave up. But here's one of her trying!