Well, it seems our little Nathan is well on his way to becoming a toddling toddler. The last two days he’s started taking more stable and sure footed steps.

I just about died when I watched him, very deliberately and all on his own, let go of the couch, get himself steady on his feet without holding on to anything, reach out his arms, and take 3 or 4 steps over to his music table. He’ll take a bunch of steps between Gary and I now without falling into us at the end like he was doing the last couple weeks, and he walks really well for a long way if we’re just holding one of his hands. His balance is getting really good now too. We noticed earlier in the week that he was standing without holding on to anything a lot more often and he’s even swinging his arms around when he’s standing now!

Eventually we will get new videos up here, so you’ll be able to see him toddling around.

Nathan showed off some more crawling moves tonight! He still keeps one leg tucked under him and has one leg kind of straight out behind him. It was so exciting to see him moving around so much, and I can’t believe how quickly he went from being fairly immobile to fully mobile. He didnt even give us time to baby-proof. Oh boy, we have some shopping to do, don’t we? Things are about to get fun.

I can’t wait to watch Nathan get better at this though. Going to work tomorrow is going to be extra hard, since I’d really like to stay home with Nathan to watch him practice.

Okay, it’s now a day later and I am pleased to report he’s crawling. He doesn’t have the typical hands-and-knees crawling form down but he is definitely crawling. It is more of a crab crawl with one leg in the normal crawl position and the other pulled up under him and his foot on the floor. The overall point is that starting last night, when Nathan wanted to go somewhere or get something, he went and he got. As a consequence he banged his head on the entertainment center trying to pull up on it. I guess it’s time for baby proofing.

Wow, now that Nathan has figured out how to sit himself up, he’s really moving. Not crawling, but he finds ways to get around. Most often he goes from all fours to sitting up, then rotates around, back to all fours and then sits again. This somehow moves him all over the place. He’s also figuring out how to move his legs forward when he’s on all fours, but he hasn’t gotten the hand movements down at all yet. He wants to pull up more than ever so he gets very motivated to move forward to furniture he can pull up on.

We’ve seen him do some crawl like forward motions without sitting himself up, but only once or twice.

Think he’ll be crawling soon?! Stay tuned!