Month: February 2010

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The Disappearing Milestone

Well, he DID roll over, at least for one day. Now he has learned to stabilize himself on his elbows during tummy time so he doesn’t have the momentum to fall over to one side. Back to the drawing board!

In the past few weeks, we’ve gone from batting at toys to specifically grabbing at them, from chewing on his fists to grabbing his own hair, and from sucking on his bottom lip to sucking on his upper arms (that one confounds me). While he doesn’t grab or bat with his left hand at all, that’s the hand he uses to grab at his hair.

I’m not sure if this is a real milestone, but we’ve had several instances now of his pants becoming highwaters. The next size up should be interesting. Do they make baby belts or suspenders???

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Crappy Napper

This boy does not stay down long during the day. On average, he takes 45-minute naps every few hours but this week it’s more like the 20-30 minute range, which can’t be all that refreshing. Definitely not for the parents! Luckily he usually wakes up happy and pleasant. I usually let him chatter away for a few minutes before I go in and get him, really to see if he’ll fall back asleep, but once he gets talking to his mobile animals, the party has started. Unfortunately, this does not translate into longer sleeping stints at night and if anything, he’s had shorter stints this week as well (*yawn*). Hopefully this phase will pass quickly!

And speaking of chatter, he is nonstop these days! Everyone and everything gets a talking to. He makes new sounds everyday so now I have to relearn the difference between winding up to a real cry and just making a statement. And he makes some strong statements.

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Rolling Over

He did it! He has been better about tummy time lately but I’ve been putting him on the Boppy first so that he’s at least propped up and not sucking the blanket when his neck got tired. But this morning, moments after putting him on the Boppy, he just flopped over! He’s been rolling from side to side while on his back lately, swaddled or not, so I thought it was just a fluke, not to mention the softness of the pillow probably giving him some momentum. So I took him off the Boppy and laid him directly on the blanket and seconds later he was on his back! I tried to record the next attempt but he must have been too tired and Mike was out at the time so he had to take my word for it. We tried again after Maxon woke up from his nap and he barely waited until I had my hands off of him before he flipped over. Nope, this is no fluke! I’m watching him now trying to roll to his left side in such earnest and I wonder when he’s finally going to get the momentum to roll from back to front. This may be the end to official tummy time. We finally caught it on camera and I’ll be posting it to Facebook.

In the meantime, here are some pictures from this week.