jasper is mobile!!!!
this is AMAZING, and i need some grace.
it was bad enough when they started rolling off the changing table. but MOVING?
its not like he’s racing, he’s more propping himself up, then pushing back. he can slide from our front door to our dining room. WHY DON"T I HAVE CARPETS INSTEAD OF WOOD FLOORING?
but more alarmingly, he is just starting to prop himself up, scoot his chubby knees under his crinkly bottom, rock back and forth, shove one hand forward and lurch in that direction, landing on his now reddened chin.
being jasper, he is very confused about this movement. for every wrinkle in his forehead, there is a question.
i don’t understand, why am i level with the chair when just a minute ago i wasn’t?
i am so confused, why does my chin hurt?
i don’t understand, why do i keep doing this?
sela is watching with great interest and i caught her today tucking her knees under her bottom and propping up. i turned her over, turtle like. and to ensure there would be no more of this reckless activity, popped her thumb in her mouth.
carys, bless her, is just starting to roll. no desire to crawl there.
one part of me is screaming with horror, yet the stronger half is absolutely delighted. what proof that their physical abilities are on track!
yet…these are my preemies! they are allowed to be delayed! supposed to, even. i seriously thought that when it came to crawling, walking, running, for once, their being on the age adjusted scale would work in my favour. but no!
my little jasper, who code blue-d in my arms, is moving! jasper weighed 2lbs 2oz when he was born! and now he is making the first crawling movements! he has no hair, but he is starting to crawl! i am not a crying person, but i did get a little lumpy throated, blinking in a sandstorm eyed when i saw his confused, earnest little face, and lurching little body. oh jasper, my little almost mobile man.
whether i am thinking about the distance between door to the table or from the saran wrap covered incubator to the floor:
you’ve come a long way, baby.
