Do The Locomotion

I would like to introduce my not-quite-11-month-old son to a clone of his sister at that same age so they could trade secrets about how to move across a room without yet knowing how to crawl.

Back in the day, Lucy used a scissor-kick scoot technique to get where she wanted to go. She didn’t officially crawl until she was nearly a year old and I have a feeling that her little brother Isaac is going to be similarly sedentary.

Isaac’s not-yet-crawling move is to leave his feet planted while hopping his bottom up and down, scootching along in little increments until he’s suddenly on the other side of the room. The distance traveled per scootch is pretty miniscule so you never actually see him accomplishing anything with the move, until suddenly, somehow, he’s no longer playing right next to you anymore.

Friends of ours who have children right around the age of my kids always seem to have little miracle babies. They eat solid food faster–we’re talking vegetables, even– they talk in cute little phrases, and they almost always are crawling months before my children. I’m fine with that–every kid figures it out eventually and the longer they take, the lazier I can be before having to spend the next few years following them around the house.