Angel's a crawling away.

Please, can someone tell me how to turn back the clock? My baby’s no longer a baby! !!!! Just this weekend, Angel started crawling! Really crawling. For the longest time, she couldn’t really crawl, just moving by dragging her feet in a half lotus, half kneeling kinda position. It was weird, but it worked for her! (Bibou didn’t really crawl too, she did this funny movement in a sitting position…she would shuffle on her bum!) She would, from a sitting position, reach out in front of her and pull herself forward, with one knee bent and dragging the other behind her. But now, she’s figured out how to crawl and she LOVES it. For now, though, she’s only able to do it for a few steps at a time, and needs to return to her sitting position to ‘repose’. She also does this funny ‘shaking of her bum’ thingy, like she’s trying to start her engine, or gearing herself up to move forward. But it wouldn’t be long, I’m sure that she’s gonna be crawling really quickly. It’s uncanny how similar Bibou and Angel are! Like Bibou, Angel didn’t / couldn’t crawl until ‘late’; I think most babies start to crawl between 6 – 10 months, but both for them weren’t really interested in crawling until later, both also preferred to stand and both starting cruising around the same time as they started crawling. Yup, Angel has also started to cruise and has also, this week, taken her first step while cruising. Yippee. The downside is of course, we’ve got to watch her every single minute now, as she goes QUICK! And she’s a real curious one, she just wants to find out about everything, pick it up and BANG on it. She loves banging. Bang bang on the table. Oh and THROWING. Yes, she loves to throw things, her utmost favorite thing to do is pick something up, and throw it away or down (especially when she’s on the changing table and then look at it). A recent trick we've taught her and that she's picked up, is doing 'high five' with us. Now, whenever we say 'high give', she'd stick her hand out, palms out. So cute. Oh and recently we noticed that she’s been ‘helping’ us while we are dressing her! She would help by holding out her arm, always first the right arm and then the left arm, helping to insert into the sleeves. And at night, while having her bottle, she will hold the bottle on her own (Bibou didn’t). We knew that she was one very opinionated baby (god forbid we try to force her to do something she doesn’t want to do), I think she’s also gonna be one very independent girl. We’ll see. Needless to say, my baby’s fast growing up.

Like her sister, Angel is also quite the dare devil. The weather was finally ‘nice’ enough last weekend for us to get to the park. The girls had a great time on the slide. I was just so pleased to see Bibou so protective of her sister and so wanting to be with her all the time and wanting to slide down with her. She’d say, “I got her / you”, hugging her tight while sliding down. Angel would close her eyes coming down the slide, but would still give a great giggle. She can and will go down on her own too; and it’s just hilarious watching her! She’d sit on top of the slide, and scoot, scoot closer to the edge until she slides down. I’m glad that one of the videos came out! You can watch the video below. Bibou never ceases to amaze me with her agility. She showed me how she can climb up the rope (I doubt I can do it!). She was most proud to show me.

Enjoy this update of photos and videos. oh btw, yes, I sneaked in an old photo of Bibou.... you can always tell which baby is Bibou - she's the one with more hair :)!

Here she is crawling!!

Here's a video of her standing by the coffee table and taking a few tiny steps. She's starting to cruise!

i LOVE this video of her scooting and then sliding down the slide by herself.

Here's a video of the both of them coming down the slide :

Here's Bibou the 'ham'. She's sooooo agile, able to climb stuff that even boys older than her can't do!