Brad's crawling

Oh this takes me back.  So at Brad's 12 month check-up we were referred to physical therapy because little Brad wasn't pulling up or crawling on his hands and knees.  Here is an example of how our little guy had figured out his own way to get around!

 

 

In mid December, we started taking Brad to PT and their first goal was to get him to crawl the "right" way on his hands and knees.  I was ready to just skip ahead to walking but learning how to crawl this way was important for both muscle and brain development.  At our initial evaluation that PT did with Brad in early November they found he had low muscle tone in all four extremities so he needed the practice building strength before he could progress to walking. 

After just a couple of PT sessions Brad could do this:

 

It would still be another 6 weeks until he took his first steps but boy oh boy was it cool to see him get up on his hands and knees!