{"id":2666,"date":"2014-01-03T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2014-01-03T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:00:19","slug":"on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Move!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SONY<\/a>Well, Doodle is officially on the move. He is now fully capable of getting from here to there.\u00a0 And though he\u2019s still working out the finer details of getting around and moves at a snail\u2019s pace, he nonetheless is moving himself where he wants to go and I couldn\u2019t be more delighted!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent (what feels like) months waiting for him to \u201cfinally get it!\u201d\u00a0 In that time many people have told me \u201cyou don\u2019t want to encourage him to crawl, then he\u2019ll be into everything!\u201d\u00a0 Which makes me laugh that people think I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m in for (baby number 3, remember?!?!) but it also irritates me that people think we should stifle a child\u2019s abilities and desires for parental ease.\u00a0 I am more than aware of what a crawling baby means and how it will change my life.\u00a0 I know I will have to keep a closer eye on him and find ways to keep him contained where I want him to be and that we\u2019ll have to keep things tidier but I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the type of mommy that wants to promote my children\u2019s development, not slow it down for my own sake.\u00a0 When Honeybun was 9 months and on the cusp of walking, many (well-intentioned) people told me \u201cknock her legs out from under her\u201d and \u201cno one wants a baby who\u2019s already walking at 9 months!\u201d\u00a0 But I did.\u00a0 I wanted her to do what she was going to do whenever she was ready.\u00a0 I encouraged her to walk because it was a skill she was interested in and working hard at and I wanted to be a supporter and a part of her cheering crowd when she finally achieved it.\u00a0 And the first time she took steps unassisted, you better believe I scooped her up in my arms, screamed yay and gave her but biggest cuddle you could ever imagine.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean though that I\u2019m a pushy mommy.\u00a0 I never taught my \u201cbaby to read\u201d nor did I start my kids in soccer and piano as soon as they could walk.\u00a0 I don\u2019t sit around doing flash cards or run around taking them to every activity available to babies.\u00a0 I take my cues from them, I assist and support them in what their interests are and it\u2019s no problem if their interests change (I do however, expect them to continue with any activities I have already paid for until the portion we paid for is done).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always taken cues from my children and taken action to help them achieve whatever skill they were working on whenever it happened.\u00a0 I want my children to know that I support their interest and will help them achieve their goals.\u00a0 When Honeybun showed an interest in letters, I made and hung an alphabet in our kitchen (see\u00a0“Letter Learning”<\/a>).\u00a0 When Sugarplum wouldn\u2019t stop doing flips on the couch and climbing the walls (literally), I signed her up for gymnastics.\u00a0 When Doodle showed an interest in sitting and standing at only 6 weeks old, I started putting him in the Bumbo chair, propped up with pillows and a few weeks later in the exersaucer.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m excited that Doodle is finally moving around (especially after months of worry over why he wasn\u2019t rolling what I might have done to \u201cmess him up\u201d).\u00a0 I\u2019m glad he is doing something new and continuing to develop as he should be and mostly\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to a reduction in frustration and fussing.\u00a0 The past few weeks have been unbearable at times as Doodle has tried and tried to crawl and become overly frustrated.\u00a0 He has spent countless hours flailing on the floor screaming in frustration and I know as he masters this new skill, he will find joy in getting around and exploring his little world!<\/p>\n

(Despite all of our predictions, Doodle is our latest crawler. \u00a0He is a week shy of 8 months. \u00a0Honeybun was 7 1\/2 months and Sugarplum was just under 7!)<\/p>\n

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Well, Doodle is officially on the move. He is now fully capable of getting from here to there.\u00a0 And though he\u2019s still working out the finer details of getting around and moves at a snail\u2019s pace, he nonetheless is moving himself where he wants to go and I couldn\u2019t be more delighted! I\u2019ve spent (what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}