Jaci Dawn

The Crawl

I took 52 photos of the boys between yesterday and today. I don’t know when I have done that before.

If you aren’t into watching the entire slide show, here’s the brief: Istarted with Zephan’s 2nd Birthday cake (in which he began singing his new favorite song, “Happy Birthday too too”). That was last night, two nights after his birthday. He’s two and has no clue.

Tonight, I decided to see if I could capture Javan and The Crawl on film. Times like these, I wish my camera had video capability. It doesn’t and what I ended up with was way funnier anyway.

The flash kept distracting Javan, but not enough to keep him from creeping forward in his strange little Mark Spitz breast-stroke across the hardwood floors. (Michael Phelps, if you’re too young to remember Mark Spitz).

He made it as far as the indoor greenhouse which is doing duty as a pantry/storage unit at the moment.

He proceeded to pull out my enamel-ware canning pot.

Zephan hurried across the room to tell his little brother, “No-no-no-no.”

“Oh hey… A hat!”

He proceeded to go through the canner, pulling out every item from the strainer (no alien is ever going to read Zephan’s mind, that’s for sure) to the pestle (we were afraid he’d use it as a bat, but Don showed him how it works in the strainer). We quietly removed the canning tongs 7 the pestle as soon as Zephan was distracted by something else, but we couldn’t get that strainer away from him.

Not that we really tried to.

I did capture The Crawl to some minor degree. It’s just funnier to watch in person as Javan does the breast-stroke across the hardwood floor.

His mother is really in trouble once he gets this crawling thing down. He already makes really good time on his belly. He’s eye-balling something else under the tea tray!

Life is good (stealing the tag line from my friend, Jodi)!