Cute, clambering competition overtakes Gateway Mall
Cheers and oohs and aahs rang out as eleven-and-a-half-month-old Brielle Smytaniuk scampered along a carpeted racetrack.
Her mother was kneeled at one end and her grandmother at the other, waving a blanket and clapping to urge her along. Those beside them jangled keys, plush toys, pacifiers and playthings to coax their own tot down the track.
Brielle paused briefly midway down the track, turned back to look at her mom but quickly got back on all fours and scampered across the finish line for a commanding victory.
“It is so exciting,” Brielle’s mother Michelle said after her win at the Gateway Mall’s Baby Crawl Saturday