Team Schuurman: A few more firsts

     Yesterday, before church, we decided that Marcus needed a little trim. His hair was getting ratty on top and definitely hung over his ears. While longer hair is cute on some children, we're just not that type of people. We put Marcus in his high chair & gave him puffs to feed himself while Mark gave him his first haircut. He snipped a little off of both sides and straightened up his front before Marcus even knew what was going on. He's now cuter than ever.
     Marcus had another first today by taking a dip into a "pool" for the first time. Yeah, yeah, I know it wasn't a real pool, but it's not like he knows the difference. We plan on taking him to a real pool on Wednesday, but I was just trying out his ducky pool, his swimming trunks, and I was curious to see how well the swimming diapers worked (which was very well!).
     Finally, Marcus has been trying to crawl and move around on the floor for a while now, but he's not gone forward yet. He can roll from side to side, all over the room, and can scoot backwards all day long. Today was the first day that he actually went FORWARD!!! I know it's not big news for the world, but in OUR world, it's huge. He did it a few times, all in different ways. He was on just his arms and toes once, doing a plank walk, then again he was doing more of an army crawl on his belly, before doing it the good ol' fashioned way another time. It's the coolest thing to watch. I put it in the video below, but I want to warn you, he's a big ol' cry baby because this was right before his afternoon nap and he was mad that I kept taking the paper away. Don't worry, he turned it off as soon as he reached the paper.
     Anyhow, enjoy the pics and video and thanks for celebrating these milestones with us! :)