Since the beach, he's been just rocketing through these things: first to get up on his toes, in a plank, then downward dog, then get his knees under him, then rock back and forth to find his balance, then falling forward, then falling forward in a controlled manner repetatively to sort of worm his way around, and finally, yesterday, real, honest-to-goodness crawling! I was working out to Insanity, I think stretching, when I felt a little hand grab my ankle. Colby had crawled all the way over to me from his play mat! For the rest of the workout, Robert had to hold him, because we kept putting him back on the play mat, and he kept crawling back over to me, so I was afraid I'd step on him! It was AMAZING to watch! Especially thinking back to where he started, and now looking at what he can do. He still gets lazy and flops onto his belly, doing the worm thing again. But he definitely can do the hand-knee-hand-knee progression across the carpet! He also really likes to crawl up into the coffee table. Lord knows why - he's going to hit his head hard at some point...Katy's not so pleased with this development, as neither she nor her toys are safe from the curious grabby hands of my 6 month old!
And let's not forget that the day before yesterday he actually pushed himself to a sitting position and stayed there, without falling over! We had been able to prop him up in a sitting position since visiting Alaska, and he was able to stay that way anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. Then we could prop him up to play with his sound and light toy and he could stay there for even longer - this was only a week ago. Now he can pull/push himself up from a crawling position and sit and grab at things! So cool!
