Madeleine's Evolution of Crawling!

Madeleine learned how to crawl rather quickly, if we do say so ourselves!  Below are lots of videos chronicling Maddie's crawling progression.

Here is a video from May 29th at Playtime at the Wicker Park Fieldhouse.  This shows an exercise we regularly did with Maddie during tummy time (long before this video).  We would hold her feet down a bit, or hold behind her feet, and let her push forward.  She caught on rather quickly and it was one of our favorite things to do.  Before Maddie would just slide with her tummy on the ground. In this video, you can see her getting up on her hands and knees rather well and tries to push forward on her knees.

June 25 - Maddie is on her belly and tries to go forward, but ends up going backwards instead. She's not yet on her hands and knees, and hasn't learned how to sit up on her own just yet.

July 8 - The first full day back from the Tulsa trip, where she pushed herself up to sitting a lot and scooted backwards a lot.  You can see her going from hands & knees, to sitting up right, back to hands & knees (and belly) with ease.  She's going forward just a tiny bit but still ends up backwards, but mainly stays in the same place.

July 11, 7:45am - She's so close! She crawls forward 1-2 tiny steps before sitting back up. She even shows you how she can raise her arms over her head.

July 11, 5:00pm - By that evening, she had gotten it!  She crawls about 1.5 ft before reaching for her ball!

July 12 - Maddie wanted to play with some cables hanging in the corner of the room and kept turning to play with them. We decided to move her far from them to see how far she could crawl (if she even could crawl that far) to get them. She surprised us by crawling the entire way!  

August 2 - Since then Maddie has been a crawling machine!  She crawls the easiest when she is on the carpet and is a bit slower and clumsier on the hardwood floor.  When it is bathtime, she will even crawl from her bedroom, into the hallway, make a left and crawl into the bathroom!  I will try to capture a video of it soon.  Here's a video from earlier today of her crawling from the dining room all the way to the kitchen. We started out in the living room but she got side tracked in the dining room.