Crawling!

Somehow my little baby boy is already 8 months old! It's a little sad because I miss the days where he actually wanted to sit in my lap to be held, but it's also a ton of fun. His new skills include the 'pincher grasp' and army crawling. Now that he can pick them up he loves Puffs and Cheerios and shovels them in to his mouth like they're going out of style. Here he is helping me choose what to have alongside his Cheerios this morning:

To demonstrate Aiden's crawling skills all you need is the proper motivation. This can come from a variety of sources including anything that you would really rather he not touch (cell phones, TV remotes, sunglasses etc.), a food item of yours that you have carelessly set next to you on the floor, anything with the potential to maim or kill him (outlets, power cords, heavy things that can tip over on him like the vacuum) and of course, any animal that is brave or stupid enough to be caught napping on the floor. Here's Aiden the moment before he has spotted something particularly interesting that he wants to check out.

And here he is the moment after he's spotted such an item:Go Aiden Go! :-)