It only took him 10 months 3 weeks and 5 days to do it, but he’s finally mobile.

He has been pulling himself up on every and anything for the past 2 months but now, he is on the move. Mind you he still doesn’t like it. I think he’d prefer to walk. Get gets in a downward dog facing position and tries to push himself up. He also squats and tries to push himself up that way.

So we had to finally get gates. I know I won’t get any sympathy from mom’s who had babies that have crawled early, and I’m not asking for any, but I’m kind of at a loss. We have not baby proofed at all. No wait, I lie… we put those plastic things in the outlet’s.

Now we decided we need to contain him. Maybe that was the first mistake. We bought a gated yard thing. Which makes me feel like he’s in a pig pen. I’m sure he feels the same way, cause he pulls himself up on it and cries instead of playing within it. I have tried sitting in there with him and playing with his toys but he just wants to climb on top of me. I think i’ll unfold it and put it against the electronic stuff. There are just so many wires from all of the “toys” we have that it’s just not safe to let him roam.  Once the basement is done, things will be much better, but the basement won’t be done until June. So back to square one.

He is also going after anything that is NOT his toy. This is driving me absolutely bonkers because we have mountains of toys.

But YAY (please detect the sarcasm) he’s crawling. But look, in the picture the kids are HAPPY to be there! I bet they took that photo within the first 30 seconds of those kids being in there to get a happy look in their face: