Being ready to say bye to crawling.

There will be no Mondays weekend watch post today. In all honestly the weekend has been so so crap that it's one I'd rather just forget. So I'm having a good old moan about crawling instead!
Where we are as of now is some sort of frustrating in between walking and crawling stage. Where Archer wants to be walking but he's not exactly there yet. Does anyone know what I mean? I need to talk about it because it's driving me a little insane. I don't remember having this situation with Lily. She was crawling (and a late crawler at that) until one day she just wasn't anymore and so it was all pretty simple.

But Archer seems determined to make the whole crawling to walking transition as complicated as he can!

Let me explain..

So Arch can walk. Technically. But only if he's holding a hand. Or even a little finger. Since the very day he took his first steps he more or less decided that he wants to walk EVERYWHERE. & I mean everywhere. Prams just wont do anymore. Nor will trollies in the supermarket and god help us if we dare try to and carry him. 

But he wont walk un-aided at all. If we let go of his hand he sits himself down and cries. Which isn't a problem, babies walk in their own time after all. It's just so inconvenient that his new love of walking has brought about his refusal of anything else and that's where the problem lies at the moment.

 There's nothing more Arch used to enjoy than going around Tesco in the trolley, waving at everyone and trying to grab things off the shelf. Now he screams his lungs out if we dare try and put him in one. Like, people stop and stare at you kind of screams that makes you want to run back to the car and gtfo. He's a crafty one as well because he's figured out how to straighten his body out like rigamortis has set in so you physically can't put him in a seat without the help of someone else..argh. Things I didn't blink at before like getting him into his car seat and nipping out for some milk have now become mammoth tasks that I dread.

Also, & I feel a little bad saying this, but his crawling is starting to look kind of wrong!? It's strange because Lily was crawling until a good 14/15 months old, so older than Arch is now, and she was a much bigger baby than him but it just never looked strange on her. Where as since Arch has started walking around aided, he suddenly looks just far too big and far too grown up to be crawling. I even had someone comment on it at play group the other day ('ooh he looks far too big to be crawling now doesn't he?') She's not wrong though, haha. I wonder if it's because he started crawling around 8 months and therefore has been crawling for a much longer period of time than Lily who only crawled shortly before her first birthday? Who the eff knows.

All I know is that I'm seriously so ready for him to walk now, I'm sick of this in between unhappy stage and I'd quite like to be out of it thank you very much. Bring on the dodgy walking like a tiny drunk person and having 100 injuries a day stage. I'm ready, I really am!

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