We were just starting to wonder if she was going to walk / talk / crawl first. I had a chat with one of our baby-group leaders 2 days ago about how to encourage her to crawl because she was struggling to coordinate arms and legs.
She would put one hand in front of the other as though crawling but she forgot to move her knees so would faceplant over and over again.
Because she's such an obstinate little thing, the usual "exercises", where you move their arms and legs in time to music/rhymes, wouldn't work. She simply refuses to cooperate and pulls away. The advice was to put her at the bottom of the stairs and encourage her to climb the stairs!
I was a little reluctant to poke that lion so I gave it a couple of days. I waved her arms about and kicked her legs a little.
The very next day I took the dog for a walk and when I returned, I was greeted by a very happy emma and (I may be imagining it) a smug looking Emilia.
Emma says "Watch this, watch this" and went to the other side of the room with Emilia's dummy in her mouth. She kneeled down and Emilia looked, grinned and crawled over to Emma, happily chattering all the way. She was so pleased with herself.
So now she can crawl and pull himself up to kneeling on stuff, she is everywhere! I've found out that the living room is not baby-proof. There are cables not-so-well hidden and she is obsessed with the sky box. She has found the on/off button and the randomly skip through channels button. The days of watching TV during the day are over, I guess. In fact I think my job has suddenly got much harder...
