The Click Theory….

I’m becoming more convinced in our “Click Theory”. Brad and I have had countless conversations and witnessings of our new psychological philosophy. Watch out, we’re going deep here! This just may put us in the history books someday, people……

“Regardless of one’s encouragement, practice, and modeling of a new skill in which you desire for your infant to obtain or even subject to their own desire, initiative, and rehearsal of the technique, often there exists an overnight phenomenon, in which the skill suddenly becomes mastered in a highly accelerated fashion. This profound progression is defined as the Click Theory.” –copyright Murray 2008

Impressive? Exhibit A: Isaac. The boy could care less about crawling a few weeks a go. My chunk-o-love was perfectly content watching the other rascals move about and playing with the toys within his reach. This progressed into rocking on all fours in his crib about a month ago and using his rolling skills to reach things beyond his reach, but no scooting, army crawl, etc. So then last weekend he suddenly gets tired of sitting the bench and decides it’s time to move, but poor guy just couldn’t get anywhere but frustrated. Keep in mind it does take some serious effort to move 25+ lbs (all muscle, of course). It broke my heart to see him put so much energy in to going no where, but there wasn’t really anything I could do….

Fast forward a couple days…. I open the gate to let the monkeys out to put them in bed for their nap. Out comes Henry, Brooks, and Clark in usual fashion and I tuck them one by one in their cribs. I go back to pick up Isaac and just kinda squat in front of him and he takes 5 paces towards me! WHAT???!!!! Unbelievable! I started crying – I was so proud of him.

In less than a weeks time he’s become a master crawler, like he’s been doing it for months! There’s a whole new world for him to explore and he’s loving it! When he discovers something for the first time (like the door stop) he squeals, kicks his legs, and gives me this proud smile. This morning he was pulling up on his knees to the exersaucer, so I believe even more “clicks” (and trouble) are in his near future.

Here’s some footage for you to enjoy:

It’s the end of an era…all my babies are mobile. What a year! They’ve come SO far!