Amelia has been pulling up for weeks now, and creeping for a good week or so, and is still very under-interested in crawling.  At school, I am told that she rolls where she wants to go, flipping from her belly to her back, over and over, until she gets where she wants to go.  Sometimes she does this while protesting and sometimes she does it silently and her teachers look up a few moments later and she’s laying 5 feet from where they left her.

This does not happen at home, needless to say.  I imagine we’re way too responsive to let her complain that long; moreover, her play area at home is much smaller – not so many things on the other side of the room to entice a baby.

What she does a LOT at home is creep.  Though she decided not to perform when I broke out the camera (she TOTALLY knows what a camera is, as do most first-borns I imagine), she frequently starts at the far side of “the pond” (exersaucer) and creeps all the way to the entertainment center and then all the way along the entertainment center until she hits the wall.  The wall has lots of interesting wires and things that babies like to grab for…

This video also has her making some of the awesome sounds she’s practicing lately: the OH! with the glottal stop at the beginning, and the tththththtp sound too.  She learned O and N in the same week, but not in any connection to each other.  Still, I wondered if it were a sign of Words To Come.