Now that Eddie is feeling better, he seems to have learned all sorts of new tricks overnight! It really is crazy how many new things he showed us last night and this morning.....when I called my mom to tell her about one thing, she guessed something else that he did and I said "oh, that too, but he also did this. and this. oh! and this!" the list now includes:
Pulling up to standing, using the couch. Can I get a big uh - oh on this one? Now all he wants to do is pull up on everything....earlier this evening he tried to use Saddie's collar - Frank was sitting with him and didn't even notice (boys....) until I walked in and Saddie looked at me like "moooommm"...she wasn't really thrilled with it, but let him do it anyway. She got some major love from me on that one, to which Jack walked over to Eddie, let him grab on, then ran to me to get some love too. Ha...at least the dogs have figured out that being patient with the baby = love from momma.
Using his baby sign language!! This was the most exciting development for me. I have been using the sign for "milk" since he was about 2 months old and yesterday I noticed him doing something weird with his hands...as I watched more through out the day, it finally hit me at night - it was the sign for milk! A little messy, but it was there, and it is what he wanted. We also have been teaching him the sign for "eat" when we do solids, but he hasn't started that one yet. Since he at least seems to be retaining the information, I added "more" into the mix. We'll see. My theory on the whole thing is that doing the sign takes an extra couple seconds out of the day, and if it works, great! if not, no biggie.
Walking with assistance. Um, another uh - oh, please. He loves to stand, but a couple days ago (with the help of Nanna - we'll blame her) he started taking steps. Now, whenever he stands, he immediately takes steps. Crawling if for wussies, apparently.
Wussies or not, he is trying to crawl. He will push up all the way on his hands and try to get up to his knees. He definitely has the leg motion down, he just needs to push up all of the way. He is regularly going from back to belly, and can also go from sitting up to on his belly smoothly. While I'm still skeptical that it is around the corner, he may surprise me.
Not sure if this should really count or not, but he is really starting to play repeating games and what not. His new favorite game is to close his toy laptop whenever I open it, so we open and close his little laptop alllllll day long. Thankfully his laptop does a ton of different things, because sometimes it will say "open" "closed" (in english and spanish) and it also plays a variety of songs, including the ABC's. If it did the same thing every time, I think I would go batty. He will also roll his ball back and fourth with Frank, but not with me....the little stinker.
While I am pretty sure he is teething, the symptoms seem to have been going on forever - so I'm not sure if it is teething or not. I can hope that it will be over soon! After Eddie kicked the sick we got little glimpses of our happy baby back and now the teething symptoms seem to hit full force...so we'll see. We're going to get back into our normal routine of classes and socializing, so hopefully he's just got some cabin fever and misses playing with his friends!
-maggie
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