A Whole New World Of Possibilities

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The last month has not been the easiest for Nick.  He had reached an in between point that made him frustrated.  He had gotten too old for many of his toys, but yet still seemed too young to move on to others.  He also wanted nothing more than to walk (more like run) around the house, but he was too cautious to try it on his own.  He was more than happy to walk around holding our hand, but other things have to get done (like making lunch!), and he’d always get really upset when we’d set him down.  Add into the equation that he was getting six (although I believe it’s going to be eight) new teeth, and you have a little guy that could get crazy fussy in the blink of an eye.

Then things slowly started to change.  Nick started walking, in fact he can take as many as fifteen steps in a row, but he’ll only walk from one person to another.  Then he figured out how to sit up on his own.  Oh my was that frustrating for us.  Once Nick figured out how to sit up he refused to lie down.  You’d put him in the crib and he’d pop right up. What was worse though was his sitting up when we went to change his diaper.  Like his wiggling all over wasn’t bad enough!  Not long after sitting up Nick figured out how to pull himself up.  Then he started cruising around his crib, and eventually the furniture.  Still that type of movement didn’t give Nick the type of freedom he craved.

Last Sunday though changed everything for Nick.  I was getting ready to take him out for a walk.  I was sitting on the side of the living room, putting on my shoes, and he was in the middle playing with Jason.  When I stood up Jason came over to say something to me.  It seemed that Nick wanted to join our family circle because I looked down and saw that Nick had crawled nearly all of the way to us.  I told Jason to look and then I stepped back to see if Nick would keep crawling, and he certainly did.  That was the end of my being able to leave Nick somewhere and expecting him to still be there when I got back.

For the past week Nick has been a crawling fool.  If he wants something now he goes to it.  One of his favorite things to do now is to have us open up his closet, and then he crawls in and starts playing with whatever toys he wants.  The transformation in him has been amazing. Now that he has the freedom to go anywhere he wants, and do what he wants, he is once again my very happy little boy.  He is now playing by himself again.  Except for looking at his books, he hasn’t sat down and kept himself occupied for months.  The last time he was able to be so focused on playing was when he still played in his Exersaucer.  For weeks I’ve looked at him while we walked around and I kept telling him that he would be so much happier if he would just do it on his own.  I didn’t expect him to start crawling instead, but being able to go places on his own has made him so much happier.  See, he should listen to mommy, she always knows.

I’m curious to see how this will effect his walking development.  He still likes to walk all over with us, but now that he is able to get where he wants to go I’m not so sure that he’ll have such a drive to walk on his own.  I know he’ll get there eventually though.  He was late to the crawling game, but we knew he’d get there when he was ready.  He’s very much the type of kid that does things in his own good time.  Right now I’m just enjoying the freedom of no longer dealing with a very unhappy and frustrated little guy.