Today, Noah had his first successful experience in crawling forward. He’s been doing backwards for a little while now, mostly to his intense frustration. He gets up on his hands and feet, stares at the toy he wants, and slides his feet back, moving a few inches further away from the toy.

But today, he made it forward.

And it was an exceptionally difficult terrain. None of this flat on the floor business. No, Noah crawled over Jill’s lap, starting on the sofa on one side of her, struggling for almost 10 minutes, to get to her other side.

And what amazing toy motivated this herculean effort?

Well, not that we at Casa Booski condone gender role stereotyping, but this was too funny for us to overlook the stereotype. Noah’s goal was the television remote.

And after all that work, we let him play with it.

For your cuteness pleasure, here’s a picture of Noah from the part of the DC trip that Bad Mommy Blogger Liza has not yet described. That is Levi’s “lips with eyes and body” toy he’s playing with — I tried to find it online, but couldn’t.

I Like Levi's Toys