Crawling, Trilling Baby...Boy?

Claire is crawling as of yesterday! Well, she's moving forward intentionally, but it's not your typical crawl. It's actually a bit painful to watch - so much effort goes into her forward motion (bunny hops, straightened legs with feet flat on the floor, with a few of your typical crawling moves thrown in for good measure), I just want to scoop her up and help her!

Claire crawling (apologies for the crappy YouTube video - blogger has a low file size limit)(hmm, now that it's posted, it actually looks OK so maybe I'll use YouTube from now on):



After watching Claire I wanted to look at Alex's first attempts at crawling. There are similarities, except his video is complete with a bump that's pretty funny until he cries - even Alex thinks so (well, now he does):



Claire is an expert at trilling (guess we should teach her Spanish NOW!), but she does it only when she's upset. (Dana used to do this when upset at this age too, didn't she?)

And, finally, try as we might, Alex still thinks Claire is a boy: