Crawling Contest

Well I certainly don't consider myself a "Tiger Mom" but I surprised myself at the competitive spirit that came out during the intense "crawling contest" Annette participated in today. The contest was sponsored by the estate where we live and Annette competed against 3 other babies. She was the oldest and clearly the most capable crawler (she is almost 13 months for goodness sakes!)

At the starting line

We held out food in front of Annette and called her name. That got her going, but soon she plopped down, fascinated by the mayhem of frantic parents making bird calls, shaking toys and offering gummy bears among other treats. She was loosing her lead and slipped into third place. Finally in a moment of brilliance I pulled a toothbrush from my purse that got her blazing to the finish line. The distance was 10 meters and Annette won first place with a time of 2 minutes 3 seconds (:


Here we are accepting Annette's prize. The event coordinator in the photo with us is wearing a hat which reads " Failure is not an Option". Well, at least we now have something to put on Annette's preschool resume.