Swimming Across the Living Room
Dec. 12th, 2009 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebMy sister called me last week to say her baby has started crawling. I got to observe this behavior this week, and actually she is swimming.
Here's how to swim across the living room. First roll over onto your belly. Then start kicking as hard as you can. You might wonder why your toes kind of hurt, or you might not notice. The kicking by itself may not seem to get you much of anywhere, but at least it will keep your legs above the surface. (Or maybe that's just with regular water swimming.)
Then prop yourself up on at least one elbow and use that elbow to pull your body forward. Once you become efficient (several days later), you can use one elbow, then the other and repeat.
This is totally hilarious. I wish I had a video.
Baby lesson of the day - The other day my niece was fussing and I couldn't figure out why for a while. Finally, I told Mom to hold out her fingers so my niece could use them to pull herself into a sitting or standing position. No more fussing. My niece likes to spend hours each day practicing sitting and standing up. Babies learn all kinds of hard things and no one ever comes up to them and says things like, "You've been trying to stand up by yourself for weeks now. Why don't you just give up? Hasn't it ever occurred to you that maybe you're not the type of person who stands?" (Fortunately, even if someone did say that, it wouldn't have any effect.)
Here's how to swim across the living room. First roll over onto your belly. Then start kicking as hard as you can. You might wonder why your toes kind of hurt, or you might not notice. The kicking by itself may not seem to get you much of anywhere, but at least it will keep your legs above the surface. (Or maybe that's just with regular water swimming.)
Then prop yourself up on at least one elbow and use that elbow to pull your body forward. Once you become efficient (several days later), you can use one elbow, then the other and repeat.
This is totally hilarious. I wish I had a video.
Baby lesson of the day - The other day my niece was fussing and I couldn't figure out why for a while. Finally, I told Mom to hold out her fingers so my niece could use them to pull herself into a sitting or standing position. No more fussing. My niece likes to spend hours each day practicing sitting and standing up. Babies learn all kinds of hard things and no one ever comes up to them and says things like, "You've been trying to stand up by yourself for weeks now. Why don't you just give up? Hasn't it ever occurred to you that maybe you're not the type of person who stands?" (Fortunately, even if someone did say that, it wouldn't have any effect.)