Thursday, September 3, 2009

Jackson is crawling!

As you surely have surmised from earlier posts, Jackson is a big boy. So he has not done too much in the crawling department, and we suspect he might also have low muscle tone, which means he just wasn't strong enough to haul around those tree trunk thighs. He was doing commando crawling over the past few weeks, but not able to get that tummy off the floor. All of that changed the afternoon of September 2nd. Here's the the play-by-play, inspired by Kevin as he completes his fantasy football draft next to me while I type:

2 pm - Jennie gets call from nanny that Jackson just crawled 4 steps
2:15 pm - Jennie arrives home to see for herself, doubtful
2:17 pm - Jennie and Gigi are cheering a bewildered Jackson for crawling about 10 feet, who doesn't get what all the fuss is about. Gigi is praising God. Jennie is doing her own endzone dance, which involves a lot of kissing Jackson, who is performing a combination of hugging and squirming to get away and crawl some more.
5:30 pm - Kevin arrives home and witnesses the kid crawl all the way across the room - touchdown!

By popular demand, here's the instant replay. You can see the interference from Bodhi in the beginning, who clearly wanted a piece of the action and some credit for being a good cheerleader, or at least for helping inspire our little MVP.

Score: Jackson: 1, Parents' free time hereafter: 0. But we'll take it!

3 comments:

Kelly said...

Way to go lil man!!! I'm so proud. Time to REALLY baby proof now guys. You have had it good for 13 months...now he'll be into everything! But it will be so great, because he's mobile!!!

Elizabeth said...

And he's off and running! So I love the fact that the goal was the phone. These kids know the real thing when they see it. We're using the TV remote with Will :)

Shelley said...

Yeah Jax!!! Your post had me in tears with the play-by -play...these are the moments we live for. I'm proud of Jax and wish Team Low could be there to cheer him on too, we miss you all!