He's Crawling!!!

I interrupt this for a brief announcement....Johnathan is a crawler now!!! He started a week ago on Thursday, April 8th, 2010. (He was 8 1/2 months old). It was the day we flew home from Spokane. Nate picked us up around 2:30pm, and when we got home, we all immediately took a nap. We woke up to very wierd shwooshing sounds on the baby monitor. It worried me, so I had Nate quickly go check him. Then I heard on the monitor, "Wooo, we'll have to tell Mommy what you did!". Nate had walked in the nursery and found Johnathan SITTING UP by himself! He had never pushed up to sitting by himself before. So that was exciting. And the sounds we heard were...he had his arm through the bars and had the monitor cord. So that day we quickly dropped the crib to the lower level and moved it away from any cords he could reach.
Then we took him out to the living room to play. And right in front of our eyes, he just started crawling. We put something enticing enough in front of him, and he started crawling to get it! It was amazing! He waited till we were back home with Daddy to show us he could crawl. It is SO amazing to watch him figure it out himself and to watch him grow. So much fun! Of course now, he is into everything!