Mobility Achieved!

Well, the day has finally arrived (yesterday). Ella has learned to propel herself in the forward direction under her own power. This means (to her parents) a few things, including: much less free time (more time directly supervising the munchkin), less freedom to leave things piled on the floor (or see them either be consumed completely or gnawed and drooled on), more work to be completed quickly on the project house (a new actual floor in the living room and dining room would be useful) and just in general more FUN!

We're actually pretty excited that Ella has made this advancement in her development - it means she's growing up as she should. Granted, this crawling is relatively slow and somewhat short-distance as she does the Army belly crawl rather than the up on all fours crawling on hands and knees. I have a feeling that won't be far away.

This post has taken a much longer time than usual to get written. I continue to be required to go and get Ella from places she shouldn't be (right behind the door chewing on her high chair seat, pulling on the garbage can, etc.) Sorry there are no photos to document this exciting achievement, you just have to take my word for it. And I don't think a photo would really do justice to the actual movement she makes. It would definitely require a video (which I still need to do - this is very new) and I am definitely not that technologically-savvy to be able to upload/download (whatever it is) a video. I'm not even sure how to put the videos from the video camera on the computer. That falls into Steve's category.

Ella calls.