Rollover Minutes

On Christmas Day, Clara Grace was exactly two months and eight days old. This was precisely the day she chose to roll over for the first time. It all came about as her Mommy laid her tummy down on a turtle which Clara Grace’s first cousins once removed, Wendy and Mark, bought for her. She held her head high and watched animals floating beneath her in the turtle’s water-filled belly, and then, over she went. It was all done with a flawlessly executed push-off from her left arm. Her Mommy put her back on the turtle to continue her play and over she went once more. If words could be attributed to her expression, Clara Grace would most likely have said, “I don’t have any idea what just happened, but I will take the next few days to evaluate future benefits to this new locomotion, and be advised that I may perform it again at a time when you are least expecting it.”