My First Tooth, Sitting Up On My Own, and Starting to Crawl

So much has happened since the last post on 7/14. First, Claire's first tooth has come through. I really do not have any pictures of it yet. It is just through her gums and has come in a bit more over the last week or so. When you stick your finger in her mouth to feel for more teeth and she chomps down on your finger with the tooth she does have......it hurts. That little tooth is sharp!

Second, Claire is sitting up on her own. She started about a week ago but always fell backwards and hit her head hard. Sara has been working with her for the past week and just about four days ago she has gotten the hang of it. She is doing great at it and has started to sit up on her own when she is rolling around playing.

Last, Claire has really started crawling! Last night I was banging some toys of hers together and she crawled toward them and kept crawling as I moved them. Well of course Sara and I were ecstatic so we set her up to do it again and got the camera out. There is video below of her crawling toward her toys. She did not do it as well as she did the first time but she does pretty darn good. This morning as we were eating breakfast she is really moving around pretty good. She we roll a few times, get up and crawl five steps and then fall down and roll again. It is unbelievable how fast she gets from one place to another now.