Guess who's crawling...

Well, it's official. Until today, Gunnar was only dragging himself along the floor, but today, he finally saw something totally worth crawling for - a china cabinet full of sparkly, fragile things. We went to a party for a co-worker of Daddy's who just graduated from police academy, and the hostess of the party had a giant china cabinet, which Gunnar saw and went for immediately. He's also started pulling himself to stand using whatever is nearby - thankfully I'm usually the hand-hold so we haven't had any accidents yet. Guess we'll be getting rid of our razor-sharp coffee table now. I've noticed in the past few days with Gunnar's increased mobility that I no longer have time to do normal things like go to the bathroom, eat, get water, etc. I seem to spend my entire day trying to contain Gunnar, and even though we thought we baby-proofed our house, I now see some major issues like lamp cords and the cable box (Gunnar likes to manually change the channels). All of this moving has really worn him out though, and by 5:30 every day (and after 2 long naps) Gunnar starts getting cranky and rubbing his eyes. Maybe being able to crawl will help him sleep longer at night?!

We have a new and improved camera, but our lovely computer won't let me download the software, so I don't have any new photos today, but will hopefully get the problem fixed ASAP. I HAVE to post a photo of Gunnar's new facial expression (we think he learned it from watching Arnold the dog) where he wrinkles up his nose and sort of snort-breathes. It's too cute. Here's a photo of Arnold to simulate the face. It's an old picture, in which I'm 9 months pregnant and Arnold is perched on the ottoman.
Off to bed now, maybe I'll be able to post new photos tomorrow!