Almost There!

Maddox is almost there! The very day we returned from our trip to Montana, Jeff set Maddox down and he went up on all fours in the bear crawl position! Since then, he has taken to several crawling positions in the effort to figure out just how to move his tank of a body!

While the first picture has nothing to do with crawling, it was just so cute that I had to throw it in! Here we are trying to teach him how to get up on his hands and knees with some support.
More teaching and Maddox up on his own!
And then down for the count. All tuckered out.
And he is up again and playing with toys now! He also can go from sitting to crawling, as you can see from his right leg that is stuck under him. We are still working on getting that leg moving a bit, but he is great at pushing himself backwards. Note that he is somehow pushing/falling and getting up again and going backwards, not crawling.
A couple days ago Maddox decided he had had it with going backwards. Here he is trying to go forward. He gets up on his tippy toes and pushes as hard and as high as he can, but doesn't go anywhere...he just looks like he is doing pushups. It is funny!And then today Maddox finally started pulling himself up onto things. Still no crawling in either direction, but lots of rocking and pushups and rolling around!