moving and grooving

the name of the game recently has been movement. olive wants to move so much. she does what she can, and what she can't frustrates her. 

she has learned that propelling herself forward, oftentimes landing flat on her belly, and reaching at her full capacity gives her some extra distance to reach what she wants.

go arms, work for me!

about mid march olive just started rolling from her back to her belly. unheard of before, she avoided being on her belly like the plague. 

she just started rolling to her belly and pushing up.

once she figured it out she did it like 10 times in a row. she was so excited. but she also had red arms and elbows from moving so feverishly.

belly....

to back....

to belly. wow, i must be a big girl!

here is olive's other new thing. looks like a preemptive strike to crawling.

it is mainly rocking forward, putting her weight on her hands, letting her legs slip back, and streeetcccching as far as she can.

it gets the job done for now. at least while she is on the floor.

and of course she still likes standing.

but wishes on every shining star she had the know-how and balance to walk.

come on feet, get moving.

the other day she did something amazing. olive rolled onto her belly and started pushing herself backwards around the room. not on her knees but flat. just pushing backwards.

all around the room she went. like she had been waiting on it forever. she checked out her crib....

under the rocker (don't know why, must be daniel's child), and all the way around to her bookshelf where she stopped and pulled off a book. it was unbelievable. she has not done it much since then. she must have just wanted to prove it to herself for the time being.

and olive is cruising. she will walk all the way around this music table.

check out the sly face on this one!

she will walk from object to object as long as she has something to hold onto.

and if she doesn't have something to hold onto she will hold out her hand to ask for help. you give her your hands and she just keeps going. she weebles and wobbles and... well, sometimes falls down. but she gets back up and that is what is important.