I don’t know exactly when it happened, but Freya has started to crawl.

For a few months she’s been trying, with little success, to make her way around. I don’t know why, but I’d imagined it would suddenly happen: a definite instance where I could say, “Now she can crawl.” It didn’t work out like that. It has happened slowly, with Freya taking one or two shuffles here and there.

Meanwhile, she has taken her first step walking without aid. She can also stand, sometimes, for 10 or so seconds.