"Trying" to crawl

Emilia is not yet crawling. She's 8 months and 2 weeks old corrected today. I don't expect her to crawl like a champ too soon, being a preemie and also because not all babies crawl by 8 months of age. I try to keep challenging her though, putting her toys far away from her.

Recently I noitce she tries to crawl when she's on her tummy. Not really crawl but you know belly-crawl. Sometimes she would do commando-crawl too. When she tries to crawl, she ends up moving backward but people tell me that is what they do at the beginning. She would keep sliding backward, intentionally or unintentionally, and yesterday she ended up under the chest of drawers in her room. It was funny how she was looking at me under the furniture.