Maryanne has officially become proficient at "army crawling." I love how her little legs straighten out and she drags them across the floor toward her goal (in the video it's a little chocolate bar ... I'm getting her trained young to love chocolate). It reminds me of the elementary back stroke: when you straighten out your legs and arms you kind of "shoot" through the water. We're working on the "real" crawling, but there's still plenty of time ... no need to make her faster!
Today I was sifting through all the clothing and pulling out clothes that were stained and torn, as well as clothing the children had outgrown. There was a huge pile of clothing to sort through, and an ever growing pile of clothes to donate. At one point, I pulled out a pink t-shirt and asked, "Whose is this?" Someone said it was Maryanne's, which couldn't have been true because it was a size 8. It wasn't her color anyway ... So I tossed it in the donate pile. (In hind sight, I now think my mom gave it to Maryanne for Christmas, and she said that she wasn't sure what size to get for Maryanne. Whoops on my part.) That's when Adam exclaimed that he wanted a pink shirt. Other children chimed in with, "It is his color." (Referring to his Dressing Your Truth type.) Adam bolted toward the donate pile and seized the shirt, promptly pulling it over his head and the collared shirt he had on. (Later he removed the collared shirt, after much cajoling from ...
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I kind of like when kids crawl that way at first. It's gotta take more effort.