Crawling to explore

Crawling is now the preferred method of getting around; and he is using it to start to explore our home.

We have learned a few things because of his new found desire to explore. Such as:

• Even if we can't see him, we can work out roughly where he is just by listening for his noisy, gurgley, wheezy breathing.
• Shoe laces might be the most interesting things on the planet.
  
• We know what rooms he has discovered because he has marked his explorations with small slimy patches of nose goop.
• There is no such thing as the "silence warning" with him. For those who don't know what the silence warning is, let me paint you a small picture. Your children are playing out of sight when all of a sudden you look at your spouse and say "I can't hear the kids"; this can only mean one thing... they are up to no good. Because Raphael is quiet all of the time, except for the gurgle and wheeze, we can't hear the quiet patches where he has found a power chord to chew on.