The definition of crawling continued...

On Monday night Matt & I noticed how much progress Anna had made toward crawling. We both thought that actual crawling would be coming very soon. We even placed a little bet. If Anna crawls before she goes to bed on Friday, I win and anytime after that Matt wins. So of course this bet involved Matt & I creating a strict definition of what it means to crawl: on your hands and knees, moving one hand than the other hand in a row along with the corresponding legs (and yes, Aunt Mary, this means you never crawled). The other rule was that we both had to see it. Now, on both Tuesday and Wednesday I saw Anna do this, but of course that doesn't count for our bet. So we'll see if she can pull out her true crawling moves for Dad by Friday.

Although she has not perfected true crawling, Anna is mobile! Her preferred method of locomotion is using the 1980's breakdancing move, the Worm:

In case you are curious, the object of Anna's desire is the packaging for some new toys I got her. She does actually like the toys too (some balls that make little noises), but she did like the packaging more. Today, now that moving is a little easier for Anna than yesterday and Tuesday, she will move to get a number of objects, but yesterday there was a short list of desirables worth the effort. One of them was the tag hanging off the end of her car seat (you can see it in the movie above). A second was the tray to her Bebepod chair. Yesterday she was worming across the room to get these two items (and only these two items). It's funny to see what strikes her fancy :)