May 30 2002
Cruising for a Bruisin'
Life has not been the same since Sam started crawling. Now, when I briefly leave the room in which he?s playing, it?s very likely that I?ll hear a ?slap slap shuffle shuffle? right behind me as he crawls across the dining room floor to find out where I?ve gone. Once he finds me, he grabs hold of my leg and won?t let go. It?s endearing and frustrating at the same time. I?m touched that my little boy loves me so, but I?m also terrified that I?m going to step on him.
At just about the same time he mastered crawling, he discovered he could pull himself upright on our furniture. He?s even started ?cruising? from chair to table to chair and along the length of the couch. I have a feeling it?s not going to be too much longer before he?s walking.
With his increased mobility, Sam?s getting into more scrapes than ever before (often enough to make Robert, the one-time most frequent patient at his local emergency room, exclaim, that?s my boy!). Even the ladies at daycare are surprised by how much ?trouble? he gets into. One day, when Robert arrived to pick up Sam, one of the ladies was filing that month?s incident reports. She laughingly told him that all of them were Sam?s! Luckily, none of his injuries have been very serious, although some of them looked nasty enough. Just this weekend, Sam slipped and knocked his forehead on a hardwood floor. He developed an ugly bruise and bump. My poor boy looked like he had lost a prize fight (again).
I expected that he would get into a few scrapes once he started moving around and that Robert and I would have to race around after him extracting him from one predicament or another. I hadn?t anticipated one of the positive effects of his newfound mobility: an increased ability to interact with others. A fun example of this took place this past weekend when we were over at his cousins? home. As he crawled down the hallway, the two toddlers crawled circles around him. All three giggled hysterically. It was so cute!
