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| He Crawled...That little faker finally crawled for real today. He could do one or two steps before, but then he would flop down and whine and cry until we got him whatever we wanted. He played Mama and Papa. Today, I just refused to give in...and then up he went and crawled over to the object, crying the entire way. I KNEW he could do it. He kind of does a mix of classic crawling and crawling on all fours (hands and feet)....he skipped the army crawling part.
So I guess now that he knows it works....he'll whine/crawl over to something he can pull up on and then just cruise around. I put him across the room and tried to get him to crawl to me. Instead, he pulled up on a nearby sofa and cruised around the perimeter of the room until he reached me. oh well. At least I can check off crawling.....they never said he had to crawl well!!!
So now the crawling, pulling up, cruising combo is a little bit of trouble since I can't take my eye off of him at all. I did for a minute today to put dishes in the sink and came back to find him holding onto our floor lamp, shaking the heck out of it.
What to do if your footed jammies make it too slippery for cruising? Tie the legs above your butt!!!
 
Has anyone tried Flor tiles? One of the mama's in my playgroup had them in her house. They're sort of like the rubber ones, but they're padded carpted tiles that stick onto the floor with non-toxic adhesive stickers. And when one gets dirty, you can just remove that one tile, wash it in the washing machine and stick it back on. It comes in different colors and patterns too. We were thinking about getting that to replace our rubber ones because BB just rips them up and chew on them. And the only way to wash them is to wipe them...which doesn't seem clean enough for me. The Flor tiles are kind of pricey though...they run about $7 per 19"x19" tile. But they did seem to stick well...I had a hard time prying a tile up. And they're so much softer and cushier.
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| Happy 9 MonthsThis is all going by so fast...I can't believe he's almost 1!!!!
We got our [mostly] happy boy back this month. I'm not sure what happened, but something clicked and he's so much better now. He's still VERY clingy and will whine as soon as we put him down and cling to our legs. But that's better than whining while we're holding him/sitting next to him. He seems to be really trying to understand what we're saying. He will stare at us intently while we're talking to him.
Crawling is still a no go. He can manage to shuffle a few steps, but as soon as he gets remotely close to the object of desire, Mr. Impatient will do a full out lunge instead of just crawling up to the object, except he is actually still several feet away. So his "crawling" looks more like he's doing the worm!
He's cruising like a champ though...back and forth and back again along the length of the couch all day. That's all he wants to do. If you try to pick him up in the middle of one of his laps, he'll get mad. He can transfer himself from object to object and can manage to bend over and pick something off the ground while holding on with the other hand. He loves to "walk" holding onto our hands and sometimes he'll actually "run"! He has one tight grip though....my fingertips literally turn purple from the circulation cut off!
He can climb the stairs....he gets tired after a few, but he'll get his knees up there, pull himself up and then stand on the step...and repeat. The playground steps are the best since they're nice and shallow and have little holes (that mesh metal playground gym material) for him to grab onto with his fingers.
He no longer looks like a baby....at least I don't think so. He's really starting to look like a big boy. sniff sniff.
He can follow a few commands. He'll lift his arms up when we say "up" because he knows we're going to pick him up....and he can "pat pat" things when we tell him to...and he can "splish splash" during bath time. We think he is trying to sign "more" and "milk", but it's hard to tell because he does similar motions normally anyway. We're more definite on the "more"...since he'll do the "milk" at seemingly random times (unless he really is hungry).
He is starting to be able to be more gentle and deliberate with his motions, especially his fine motor movements. He used to just destroy books and magazines as soon as he saw them...but now, he will actually flip the pages back and forth and examine what's on each page. His pincer grip is spot on and I've seen him pick up individual strands of hair off the ground!
He LOVES to dance. As soon as he hears music, he'll bounce up and down when he's sitting, or he'll do Elvis like hip movements if he's standing...and if he's lying down, he'll start wriggling back and forth.
So far, only two teeth have popped out. He still has no idea that they're there and keeps running his tongue over them. He chops down on our fingers as we cringe and he leaves red marks on his wrist because he usually sucks his wrist to self-soothe.
I was a little lax with photos this month because it was hard to take pics and keep and eye on him. But here are a few (taken over 2 days to represent the month hahaha). I love the B&W of him stuck under the sofa.
 
Trying to figure out what those two things in his mouth are
Pulling up & cruising
 
His new toolbench
Finally some pics of BB and Mama (in which I don't look horrid). That's one of my fave carriers custom made with one of my fave fabrics!
 
PB and BB....same head in different sizes.
  
 
This is the plaground area at BB's future elementary school. I think it's pretty amazing...although this may be the norm in suburbia...I'm not sure (all we had were fenced concrete yards in Queens). This is only 1/4 of the school yard...the rest of it is a beautifully manicured grassy lawn filled with trees and benches.
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| Where to find portable baby food masher?I remember someone blogging about this portable plastic food masher...I think it was either a Japanese or Korean brand. I think it had ridges on the bottom and there was a spoon thing that you used to scrape it against the bumps. What is it called and where can I get one?
We're trying to give BB a little of our normal food to kind of get him used to table food. He can handle the soft stuff, but for meats, I've been chewing it up and giving him that. hahaha. I know, gross. I feel like a mama bird. But he's not great at swallowing larger chunks yet and I'm not going to use the blender all the time!
Do I let him handle the food himself? Everytime I give it to him, none of it goes in his mouth...he just mashes it up in his hands and then smears it in his hair!
I found this online...but it's from the UK. http://www.annabelkarmel.com/products/feeding/food-masher-bowl
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| Who is this baby and what have you done with the real BBEither the the teeth were bothering him that much or he snapped into his next phase, but BB has been a totally different baby these days. For the past few months, he has been SOOOO incredibly fussy all the time...barely smiled or laughed. He eventually ended up sleeping and eating well, but he was always moody.
After his two teeth came out, he's smiling all the time and laughing at stupid stuff. I can't say he eats or sleeps as well anymore, but he's much more pleasant during the day. I think I'll take that trade off. Today, he looked me straight in the eye, wrapped his arms around my neck and pulled me in for a gentle kiss on the cheek....twice!
We have to re-figure out his bedtime. If we put him down at his normal 8:00 to 8:30-ish, he will cry and cry no matter how tired he was before....and if we go in, he's like wide awake. Usually 9 PM works...but he used to go to bed at 7:30! Is it possible that he pushed back his bedtime by that much all of a sudden? He does sleep later in the mornings now...usually until around 7 - 7:30 AM (finally, normal people time).
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