Crawling

Liam started crawling a few weeks ago. I had been getting excited about it a few weeks beforehand as he started to greatly improve his rolling and sitting skills, but a lot of people said that I should hope that he takes a long time to start crawling as he will be much harder to look after. And yes, Soph and I have had to rearrange our bookshelves (books we care about have to be level 3 or higher), the coffee table shelf (the tray of Liam's toys had to be removed as he kept hitting himself in the head with it, "stepping on a rake" style), and we have to be careful not to leave anything sharp or valuable on the coffee table or side tables. But it is completely worth it as it has made the three of us so happy!

For the first week or so he loved to follow us whenever we walked out of the room. After that he finally realised that he could go wherever he wanted and he was off! His favourite discoveries so far are banging on our DVD case, and pulling books out of our family room shelves. He's happier in general now, as he can entertain himself much more easily, and he can come searching for Soph or myself if he wants some attention.

Koshka isn't quite so happy with the new arrangement, as Liam as managed to sneak up on her and grab her tail a couple of times. She's not the most alert of cats! She's extremely good with him though, and so far hasn't had any reaction to the torture inflicted on her by Liam besides running away.

Anyway, I'm loving the crawling stage so much, bring on the walking!