Proud Mummy moment!

I created this blog so I could come on and write about things going on in mine and baby bug's life at the moment. So I can share this with others, get advice from other parents and also so we can look back in years to come and remember our thoughts and feelings at the time and perhaps even let baby bug read it himself one day! So with that in mind and now that I have blogged about how he got here, I have decided to fast forward 9 months to where we are now with my posts from now.

So that brings me to today, when we had a seriously proud Mummy moment!!! My baby boy crawled! After weeks and weeks of just rolling himself across the room and then slowly progressing to commando shuffling then vaguely rocking on his knees. In the week that we returned to our tots group that we attend after baby bug having a bout of illness and found that pretty much all of the babies born around the same time as him are crawling and pulling themselves up on things and some even walking around the furniture. I honestly thought my baby bug was never going to go, and I'm not proud but will admit I was even a bit jealous! I'm sure all Mums have felt this way at some point, compared their child to other children. We don't like to admit it and we know we shouldn't do it but lets face it we have all done it at some point in our child's life I'm sure. That "why is your baby doing that and mine isn't?" moment - or on the flip side that "Ooh MY baby can do this" moment. Everyone reassures you, "all babies are different, some babies never crawl, oh he will get there" I will admit all of the above was going through my mind lately.

Until tonight.... when I stripped my baby boy for his bath and left him sat in nothing but his nappy on his bedroom floor, I went to check the bath and came back to find him crawling towards me. Not reaching his arms out and whinging, not rolling, not shuffling himself on his elbows and dragging his legs behind. Proper crawling! After that initial "OMG hes actually crawling!!" moment I remembered my husband was still at work and missing it so I went and grabbed my phone, and started to film, by which point he was at my feet so I had missed getting most of it on video, so I put him back to the exact spot I left him in, sitting on the floor, phone at the ready and prayed he would do it again, and sure enough he did!! Babbling away, looking very proud of himself my super clever baby crawled out of his bedroom to meet me at his door and I got it all on video for one VERY proud Daddy to watch (over and over again) when he got in from work. Then came the phone call to the grandparents and the Facebook updates so they could see the video and I could share my super proud Mummy moment with the world! He is now sound asleep in his bed but I am still reeling with excitement!!! He's been trying SO hard for ages and hes finally done it! Soo proud!