Running and Crawling

Jayda is not really a big fan of races we decided. She has run in little kid races before, and is always excited ahead of time, and afterwards, but when it is time to run- she seems to hate it. We have participated in the Red October Run for the last few years with Anna running a 5k last year and the year before. This year we decided to let Jayda run the kids 1 mile fun run and see what she thought of it. There were 5-6 other kids from our neighborhood running in it so we thought she would just have fun running down the street. We knew she wouldn't run the full mile of course, but we didn't know that she wouldn't want to run at all. When they yelled "on your mark, get set, go!"....she just started whining and wanted Anna to hold her. I think the crowd of people may have been overwhelming to her, so we let her wait for the end of the pack. She then wanted me to hold her, and I told her she had to catch me first. I then ran backwards and about 10 feet ahead of her while she tried to chase me and catch me. It is the only thing that worked to get her to run, but of course it didn't last very long. I then picked her up for a bit, and then she got to ride with Addison on the stroller. After the race she was very happy and excited to show off her red ribbon. She even asked Anna today if she wanted to run a race with her. Funny how kids are sometimes.






So it's official- Addison is now crawling. She has been pushing backwards for sometime now, but could never quite figure out how to move forward. Suddenly it clicked for her on Saturday and she crawled forward a few feet while we just happened to be watching. She seem to quickly catch on to it and now she can pretty much move where she wants. She crawled all the way across our apartment today to see the vacuum on the other side of the room. Exciting to have her crawl, but also it makes us have to "crawl proof" our house again. Jayda is a good helper and now watches to make sure Addison doesn't get into too much trouble. She ran all the way across the room when Addison was still 15 feet away and made sure that the door to the basement was closed even though Addison wasn't moving. It is fun to watch Addison's little hands and legs shuffle across the floor while she is exploring a new world.