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With the first kid, there are so many milestones that you look forward to... rolling over, sitting up, crawling, eating solid foods. With the second (and I'm assuming any thereafter), you're a bit more... hesitant for those milestones. You know that rolling over means you can't just leave them on the floor to take a quick shower. Sitting up means they have a higher reaching radius. Solid foods mean one more thing to pack in the diaper bag and crawling... well, you know that your days of not watching every second of that child's movements are over. Gone. Goodbye.

I'm excited that Cooper is crawling, don't get me wrong. The kid is hilarious at it as well. It just means, on one more level, his independence is increasing and that's always a bitter-sweet thing for this mom. We've suspected him of this major life event for almost a month now, but were FINALLY able to capture it on video (when the vacuum wasn't going full blast)!