Finley the crawler

Amanda is in Durban at the moment, visiting family (read showing off Finley). Just before we left for Durban on August 20th Finley had started get the hang of starting to crawl, well, he could "step" forward like three steps and then sit on his bum, while moaning and complaining continuously.

After a few days in Durban (I think it is the warm air) he was really getting the hang of it (so much so that we could leave him on the floor with toys splayed around, and he would amuse himself). The realisation of the impact of a crawling child dawned on us when we were trying to put him down for a nap one time (when possible me and Mandy lie on either side of him while she feeds him to sleep, this is the result of his separation anxiety phase which he is currently moving through). As we were trying to get him to sleep he kept rolling over, pushing himself onto his hands and knees, and crawling to the edge of the bed.

Mandy described the situation quite nicely in an email she sent me last night:

BUT. It took me about 10 minutes to change his nappy tonight. Once I take his dirty nappy off, before I can put the new nappy on, he flips onto his tummy, gets onto hands and knees and crawls away laughing. He does it really quickly and I can see that changing nappies is never going to be the same again. He can also sit up from lying down on his back without rolling onto his tummy first. Which means putting him to sleep has become increasingly difficult. He just sits up and does what he wants to. His crawling speed has also accelerated. So if you can, please try and do some childproofing before we get home.

I am a bit scared.

Mandy also took Finley to uShaka Marine World and said "Then we went to the Aquarium and he was quite sleepy and was a little frightened by the fish at first, but soon warmed up to them. He especially like the huge sea turtles.". It is quite nice to hear he is warming up to stuff a lot quicker, our week in durban bombarded him with people, places, and plenty of new things, most of which he did not have an immediate appreciation for:

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