Scooter

Michelle is getting more mobile. She's still not crawling yet, but getting pretty close. It was months after she came to live at NLCH until she could stay sitting up without someone holding her. Then, she could do that, but with the constant threat of a hard head-flop onto the floor. Now the head-flops are very rare occurrences, and she can sit by herself for as long as she wants to, so she's working on being able to get places.

Among her long list of nicknames is now "Scooter" because of her successful determination to no longer be limited to one spot where she can play. We used to be able to set her in the middle of our small living room carpet, knowing that she would play right there and not be able to get anywhere else. A few days ago, she successfully scooted off the edge of the carpet for the first time: we saw her laying superman-style on her belly reaching under the couch for a lost cheerio. Today she scooted quite a way off of the carpet onto the tile, so I took a little bit of video so that everyone could see her method of scooting. (So far, it's still always in reverse.) In the video below, she's trying to reach under the carpet for a card that she pushed under there. The more she reaches, the more she scoots herself backward.

The picture above could be my favorite that we've taken of her. She scooted to Kara's mirror and played with it for a long time. As she played with it, she figured out that she could see me in it, and the result was one cute picture.

We leave Friday morning. I got a bit sad in church this morning as I thought about actually having to say goodbye to this little girl.