While I was sure Stella was on the verge of crawling, she hasn’t yet started with the traditional hands and knee locomotion. She does, however, move with a very nice combination of “commando crawl” and rolling.

I think wearing her helmet had gotten her used to a certain level of recklessness concerning her head whick she will have to unlearn, quickly, now that her head is no longer protected by a hard plastic shell.

I also think her less top-heavy self is going to lead to her beginning a traditional crawl fairly soon.

What she really needs to do is figure out that she can, indeed, move from a sitting position to a crawling position–or any floor position–on her own. I’m pretty sure she was “stuck” in bed last night for an hour or so after she somehow managed to sit up in bed and couldn’t figure out how to get down again.