It’s True!

courtesy of LIFE magazine

Baby Jessup is crawling!  We got the call last night.  I say we, because Matt and I were commuting home on route 220N when the call came in that  Jessup had officially started to crawl.  We knew the time was quick approaching.  He has been rolling around things and walking with hands attached to the couch for a few weeks now.  He’d learned how to pull himself up to a crouching position, and he was rocking back and forth, but every time he tried to move that front arm forward, down he’d go.  I told BJ, “When he does crawl, and i mean THE MOMENT when he first crawls, i want you to call me or text me THAT moment and tell me that it happened.”  BJ is used to me speaking in such desperate terms.  After all, he was raised in our home, has been acquainted with my passion for life and has on more than one occassion been embarrassed by my enthusiasm for the things that thrill me.  He knew I was serious.

So how, you ask, did it happen?  I’d be glad to share (wink, wink).

It so happens that just before the call came in on my phone, Bob had called to speak to baby Jess.  Knowing how much Jessup loves the cell phone (actually, the camera in the cell phone, I suspect–he’s a ham), daddy moved it just out of his reach, hoping he would scoot his way over to it.  Sure enough, Jessup low-crawled to the phone, slick as could be.  Lumpa (our pet name for Bob, as grandpa), was the very first to hear his delighted squeals, when Jessup crawled for the first time.  I’m so jealous!

Since I don’t have any real pictures of Jessup crawling yet, I thought I’d share this vintage photograph from Life Magazine when they hosted a baby crawling competition.  So cute!

Today, we are happy grandparents, Bob and I.  We have the handsomest grandson in the universe, it seems, and we feel totally blessed to see him growing and learning and crawling on schedule.  God is good, all the time!