Friday, September 11, 2015
Puffs
Elliott enjoyed some sweet potato puffs for dinner tonight! First non-liquefied food! He appeared to like the puffs, and had a good time smacking the tray until they all stuck to his hands. Yet, he never associated picking up the puffs with moving them to his mouth for consumption. Maybe next time.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Sleepover
By the end of the long weekend with his cousins, we gave Jonah the chance to "sleepover" in the kids' room instead of in the basement with us. Cailin and Declan had been looking forward to it for so long! They all were amazingly well behaved. They were quiet before the end of giggle-time was enforced and slept through the night with only a short water-break for Jonah. Wow, if only we had kicked him upstairs earlier in the trip we would have had better sleep!
Saturday, September 5, 2015
At least!
Finally, at seven months old, Elliott has decided that he will sit on his own! And roll tummy-to-back and back-to-tummy. AND scoot backwards. All that progress was made in the course of one day visiting his big cousins. They attribute it to the "magic crawling rug". I need to get one of those!
1. Elliott has been choosing not to sit. He'd much rather push back to a reclined position and chill out supine. Couldn't care less about trying for more than a few seconds, or less if he isn't restricted from lying down. Yet, when we put a ball down in front of him today, he was more than happy to sit and play with it with both hands and both feet! As if he could have done this all along, there just wasn't enough incentive in the books, teethers, take-alongs, electronics, blocks, stuffed animals, towers, cars, etc. I had been giving him.
2. Really, I think Elliott has been rolling for a couple weeks now, but not very prolifically. He would rather fuss when he's done with tummy time, and if I don't help him roll over, he just falls asleep in place on his tummy. He doesn't seem to realize that he can fix it himself! I have noticed that he will roll over at night, but in the morning he always seems in the same spot I put him when he went to bed, (he rolls onto his side to sleep). But from the vantage of a bed right beside his, I would awake to find him in a new position all night long - and back where he started by morning! Stealthy. And here I thought he would be fine without a confined crib, since he doesn't move around much at night anyway!
3. The scooting thing is also new in that it is intentional. Elliott has made some progress before in translational movement, but always as an accident of repeatedly lifting up to cobra. This time, he seemed to understand that he was making himself move and got very upset when a couch or ottoman snuck up from behind to halt his progress. Such freedom!
1. Elliott has been choosing not to sit. He'd much rather push back to a reclined position and chill out supine. Couldn't care less about trying for more than a few seconds, or less if he isn't restricted from lying down. Yet, when we put a ball down in front of him today, he was more than happy to sit and play with it with both hands and both feet! As if he could have done this all along, there just wasn't enough incentive in the books, teethers, take-alongs, electronics, blocks, stuffed animals, towers, cars, etc. I had been giving him.
2. Really, I think Elliott has been rolling for a couple weeks now, but not very prolifically. He would rather fuss when he's done with tummy time, and if I don't help him roll over, he just falls asleep in place on his tummy. He doesn't seem to realize that he can fix it himself! I have noticed that he will roll over at night, but in the morning he always seems in the same spot I put him when he went to bed, (he rolls onto his side to sleep). But from the vantage of a bed right beside his, I would awake to find him in a new position all night long - and back where he started by morning! Stealthy. And here I thought he would be fine without a confined crib, since he doesn't move around much at night anyway!
3. The scooting thing is also new in that it is intentional. Elliott has made some progress before in translational movement, but always as an accident of repeatedly lifting up to cobra. This time, he seemed to understand that he was making himself move and got very upset when a couch or ottoman snuck up from behind to halt his progress. Such freedom!
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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