| | This 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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| | Posted 7/9/2009 10:47 PM - 36 Views - 12 eProps - 7 comments
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