Jane! Stop this crazy thing called Zoe! You heard right, Bumper is now officially crawling. Once she figured out the order of movement, and she was able to go eight rotations before rest, it was official. As if sitting up didn�??t come fast enough (insert heavy sarcasm) now she is motoring across the house! She is my little explorer now. First she braved the threshold of her door, which goes from carpet to tile in the hallway. She paused initially to contemplate the change in texture by giving a few good open handed slaps to the tile. Now she pops over to the tile like nobody�??s business. It is exciting and scary. I told my buddy KJ at work that she was crawling now and he asked if I had child proofed the house yet. I told him not yet and another friend at work, Chris, commented �?? yeah, its only your daughter�??s life.�?� Thanks. That is on the first order of business, believe me.

I�??m scared. I�??m very scared. I sit quietly in her room watching one of my favorite shows �??How its Made” on the Discovery Channel after placing her on her little play mat. I�??m not halfway through the forging of steel balls that will be the backbone of the ball bearings they are making when I look up to see nothing but Zoe�??s torso in the door way, heading north. Just torso, legs and feet, then just legs and feet, then just toes, and then she�??s gone. Stealth is my main problem. I have a few ideas. One is to tie jingle bells to her feet, but I�??m sure my dumb ass will tune them out of the dogs will think she�??s a big pink play toy. Bad Idea. Wait, I have another. You know, keeping the tile floor clean and dog hair free can be tough with 3 dogs in the house. I am going to call Carter�??s (baby clothes) and Swiffer (floor cleaning tools) and have them develop an outfit for crawling babies that cleans as they crawl. She�??ll be like a little Roomba (unattended robot floor cleaner), She�??ll be my Zoe-oomba!

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