He's Mobile . . . Sort of

We've written repeatedly about how desperately Nicholas wants to be mobile. Well, he now sort of is. I say sort of because I don't know if it counts when you move yourself unintentionally. He has always been able to scoot a little while lying on his back by kicking and has definitely moved around some in his crib. But he is now strong enough that one good push gets him 3-4 inches back.

He has been moving himself while on the changing table, getting close to the edge, but today when I leaned down for a few seconds to look through the drawer of pants for an appropriate pair he scooted himself so far and so quickly that when I stood up his head and entire upper body were hanging off the edge of the dresser. Yikes! Luckily he was completely unfazed, but I think he would have continued happily scooting until he actually fell off, at which point disaster.

The other time he has been scooting a lot is when we put him on his playmat. I was in the kitchen for a couple minutes the other day and heard him crying and went to see what was going on and he was pushing his head into the TV cabinet! Seriously, how do you babyproof against a baby ramming his head into things while scooting backwards?! Tonight we had a pillow against the TV cabinet and his inflatable cruise ship blocking the sharp edge of the futon. We moved him back onto the mat a few times, because he can only really move backwards, with a little side-to-side twist, which means eventually he ends up under the futon if we don't move him back.

From Nicholas - Month 4

If you look closely you can see one of Nicholas' socks at the bottom of this picture. That is where he kicked it off from the position where we set him down. And you can see how far away he got before we decided to move him back . . . again.