This month you have managed to learn some new tricks. You decided that crawling just wasn't for you & choose to scoot around. You will crawl when you are in a tight spot, but once you are through you plunk down on your bum & scoot away. You manage to travel very quickly & get into all sorts of stuff. You do not to spend too much time with one activity, so there is quite often a path of destruction in your wake. I have chosen to live with the mess rather than constantly following you to clear a path. Your Daddy & sister who are self-proclaimed neat freaks seem to have learned how to tolerate your destruction.
You now have eight teeth. This past month has not been the most restful one. You were quite restless at night and during your naps. The cause of this was never quite clear, but I think your teeth coming in really bothered you. However, you did also have a bad cold & there were so many things you were trying to master. You have mastered pulling yourself to a stand & you did climb the steps once. We don't think you enjoyed the experience because you screamed the whole way & have not repeated the attempt since. I am quite alright with you not being able to climb the steps, it is just one more avenue for you to get into trouble. In the past few days you have also started to try to stand up in the middle of the floor. You are still a long way from getting up, but it is great to see you try.
You are continuing to become a more social being. You have abandoned your wave as your neatest accomplishment & have moved onto clapping. Unfortunately this came after we have been trying to teach you to sign "more" for us. So, in your highchair we are not always sure if you are clapping to say 'look at me!' or if you are trying to tell us 'more'. You will always eat more, so we don't want to assume you are saying that if you are not. It is amazing the change in you when it comes to mealtimes. I cannot believe that you are the same kid who a few months ago was driving me crazy with your eating habits. Now, you will eat readily & pretty much anything that we put in front of you. Hopefully your willingness continues!
Pointing is also one of your new favourites. When we get you out of your crib you automatically point at the window & you want to look out. In your highchair you point at the food that you want. At Grandma & Papa's you are always pointing at their glass birds that move & they of course rush to please you & make the birds move. The rest of the time you are pointing at something & making your little grunting noise & it is up to us to figure out what you are trying to get us to see. When reading stories you will point to the moon when asked to & you will point to the animals for us to name.
There are many, many things that you do each day that bring us joy, however as seems to be the pattern with you there is always one thing that crops up each month that makes us want to pull our hair out. This month, it is diaper changes. Preparing to change your diaper is like planning your next move in chess. This process involves trying to find something for you to hold that will distract you long enough that you will lie still to be cleaned up. If the distraction doesn't work you are flipping over onto your stomach & trying to crawl away. Many changes become a bit of a wrestling match with you screaming while I try to pin you down. You see, you can be quite dirty & I don't really want you smearing that mess across the carpet & we had to abandon the change table a long time ago. Once you are clean I am willing to work with you & have learned to put your diaper on you while you are in a crawl position or a standing position.
I have added a video that we took today that demonstrates 5 of your current abilities or traits:
- your love of music (although you can't hear it in the video) & ability to dance
- your scooting method
- your chase after me when you notice the camera
- your tendency to not stay with any activity for much longer than 15-30 sec
- and of course your big, happy smile
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