The Modified Butt Scoot

That's right... that's what we're calling Ben's first foray into forward momentum crawling - the "Modified Butt Scoot!"  On exactly his 8 month birthday (March 16th), Ben started crawling forward.  It wasn't your standard crawl though.   Pictures don't quite do it justice and you really just need to see it to understand...  but basically Ben reaches forward with his hands and pulls one knee up and drags the other leg and then slides his butt forward. 

He'll continue these motions repeatedly and it results in a forward crawl for sure.   It's quite an effective method of getting around when used in conjunction with some of his other methods of mobility.  Sometimes he'll do some half rolls to one side or the other to turn.  When used all together, it's actually quite comical to watch him get around. 

It kind of looks like Ben is eyeing up something off to the side there.  Ben can butt scoot all around the house now. He's getting fast enough to even chase after Lybbie (who now realizes that its best just to run away - but I don't know how much longer Lybbie will be able to out run him.)  

Its definitely time to baby-proof the house now! 

He can pretty much get to anything he wants...    Like playing with his police car.

Or going after his Elmo balloon...

Ben just loves Elmo & balloons.  Put them together and Oh My!

Ben's Dad Note: I'm leaving on a week long business trip in a few hours to fly to Shanghai China!  In an effort to combat the effects of a 12 hour time difference (ugh), I'm staying up all night tonight before the long flight so I can hopefully sleep on the airplane.   So to pass the time and keep awake, I've been writing a bunch of blog entries to be automatically posted next week while I'm away.  So stay tuned, about every other day starting on Monday, you'll be seeing a new post on this site.   I know I'm certainly going to miss my little boy over the next week...  But at least I can see his pictures on his blog no matter where I am.