Moving and sitting still

It's happened. I've been looking forward to it and dreading it all at the same time. They can move - in a direction, with a purpose. It's not so much that they can crawl. They've invented their own sort of inch worm way to get around. It basically involves laying on their bellies and folding themselves in half then pushing a little with their feet. For Jack it's actually kind of frustrating because its the same basic move he uses to turn over onto his back. about every third time he actually does turn over and then gets really mad. it takes him about 30 minutes to move about a foot and a half. Charlie is a little more efficient as he has figured out to bend one arm way back behind him (thus preventing that pesky roll over). He can move about 6 feet in 30 minutes. Last night he moved across the floor to get to his links on the playmat. After 30 minutes they are exhausted and so over it.

also, they can both sit up by themselves for about 10 minutes at a time now. Charlie has been doing this for a couple of weeks and can really "recover" when he gets off balance. Jack has been a little behind him and would only sit for a few seconds at a time until the last couple of days. Now he has caught up (as usually happens) and will probably figure out how to get in that position before Charlie does. That's what happens most of the time. Charlie practices and tries for weeks to do something and Jack shows almost no interest. Then one day Jack just does it and poor Charlie doesn't master it for a little while longer.