Yes, we are still painfully watching Hayden try to crawl. Both Matt and I have tried demonstrating how easy it is to get on all fours and crawl around a room, but Hayden just hasn't quite figured it out. We show him how to coordinate his arm and leg movements, we encourage him when he makes 1 centimeter of forward progress, and we pick him up when he has had ENOUGH. Yet still, after weeks and weeks of trying, there is still no crawling in a forward manner-lots of backward progress, but nothing forward. Now I know I should be thankful. Most of my mommy friends with crawling babies look exhausted from chasing their babies all over the place. But the truth is that you want your baby to be advanced (as we say in the Grob family)-you want your baby to crawl at 4 months, so that you can nonchalantly say to your mommy friends, "Oh, my baby started crawling at 4 months, is that early?" It's not that you want to brag or anything, it's just that by having superior offspring, you appear to be a superior parent. And I WANT to be a superior parent. Of course, all of you reading this will say, "Oh you are a superior parent, Amy," but that isn't fair because most of you are my family and you have to say that even if you think I am doing a sucky job.
Regardless of how long it is going to take Hayden to learn to crawl, we practice every day, everywhere. Hayen takes any opportunity he can to flip over onto his tummy and make an attempt. Doesn't matter if he is on the changing table, in his swing, or drinking a bottle in your lap, when he is ready to give it a go, he goes for it. As parents, Matt and I do everything we can think of to get Hayden to crawl to us, but truthfully, he is only interested in Sage, Aston and Alba. As soon as he sees any of them, his eyes light up, he goes into hysterical fits of laughter and tries so hard to crawl over to them (usually resulting in backwards movements). Poor animals-they have no idea what is in store for them in the next few weeks!