Crawling

One of the things we learned as my daughter chose to adopt from Mexico, is that in that culture or at least that particular part of Mexico where Elia’s orphanage was, baby’s are never encouraged to crawl, but rather to walk.  Becky and Eric were discouraged from putting her on the floor and encouraging the crawling movements when they began to see them.  A few things come to mind:…The floors are cold and it was winter in an unheated orphanage, some of their homes also have dirt floors, that part of North America is home to such things as scorpions and tarantulas which also enjoy walking on the floor.  So anyway, Elia did learn to enjoy time in a walker.  Now that she has been home for a while though.  The floors are warm and carpeted.  There is great traction, and lots of things to get to, that you just can’t reach by sitting there, and she hasn’t learned to walk yet.  If she isn’t in her walker and she wants to move, what can she do?  She can crawl