She's crawling!

It's been months in the making, but today Madeline officially crawled for the first time. Actually, she did it so well that it makes me wonder if she's been practicing while no one's around.

This morning we were playing in the living room with her new phone. She was sitting on the floor and shifted gracefully into an all-fours position. I moved her toy about four feet away to encourage her to work for it, and instead of using her usual Army crawl, she just started putting hand in front of hand and crawled!

She's done it several more times today, interspersed with the tried-and-true Army crawl. No matter what method she uses, there's no doubt about the fact that she can get around by herself now.