Where does the time go?
Alaric will be 8 months old this weekend. Wow. I have no idea how this happened.
My brain, she is not the same, remembering sort of brain she used to be.
Anyway, I mean to keep a little better track, always...but I am not faring well at such endeavours.
I've been having lots of issues with Crohn's. Just more of the same old story, nothing to see here, let's move along, etc etc.
So I will talk about A instead. Because A is certainly more interesting *to me*. :)
He is starting to be mobile. (Uh-oh.) Army-crawling short distances sometimes, rolling over and over sometimes--never far; I think his record might be 4-5 feet at a time, and usually while we are not looking so we don't really know how he is doing it half the time--but it's just enough that we REALLY can't put off the whole childproofing thing any longer. He sits well for long periods, though he can't quite get there by himself yet and is still prone to toppling occasionally when he gets interested in something, and getting a solid whack in the head as a result. (So far he's pretty resilient about such things--and to my utter surprise, so am I; D is much more concerned and consoling about the little bumps, which I find surprising.)
He has liked all the solids he's been given, but won't eat very much at a time. (We're working on this, because he is drinking a LOT of formula, which isn't particularly cheap.) Favorites, as far as I can tell, are green beans, blueberry yogurt, avocado and mum mums. He can feed himself the little baby puffs and yogurt drops, but it is hard work for him (still perfecting the pincer grasp, after all) and he'd rather I did it for him.
He sleeps well at night, mostly. (Two nights ago, though, he woke up screaming 6 times in 8 hours. That was highly unusual and unpleasant.) I think we average 9-10 hours of straight sleep. Something like 10:30 to 8:30 is normal. (Yeah, he's a night owl. Shocking, that.) He often eats, plays for an hour, and either goes back to sleep or naps next to me for another 2 hours in the morning while I read. He wakes up, eats again, we have lunch, play for a couple hours, repeat as necessary. Naps suck, other than the first one. I still hold him, in one of two particularly seating positions, or it doesn't happen. I would love more usable time during the day, but at this point I am resigned. Forcing the issue just makes us both cranky.
Play is more playful these days. He likes to knock over stacks of blocks, dump things out of a bucket, bang anything on anything else--there's an overall pattern of destructiveness. :) He will happily play with a book of any kind for ages. A new board book can keep him thoroughly occupied for 15 minutes; a new cloth book maybe longer. He isn't always in the mood to be read to (HATES it when he is tired!) but otherwise he will sit in my lap for story after story, as long as there are some pictures, too. They don't have to go with the story. We went to the beach a few weeks ago and he loved it--the waves and the sand. Also the swimming pool.
He isn't super verbal. I *think* he may be repeating 'hi' and using it vaguely appropriately, but I see no other words in the near future. He can blow raspberries with 17 different consonant groupings, though. He does some wierd fake-coughing noises to get attention, which is kinda cute.
He travels beautifully. Seriously, I cannot complain. We did an epic drive from FL to NC--8am to 11pm, with a stop for breakfast, an early dinner, and a couple rest areas in between. He was only minorly annoyed by the constant confinement. I know that's going to change as he gets more accustomed to mobility...
Aaaaand now it is time for his bath, it seems, and I should go take care of that.
My brain, she is not the same, remembering sort of brain she used to be.
Anyway, I mean to keep a little better track, always...but I am not faring well at such endeavours.
I've been having lots of issues with Crohn's. Just more of the same old story, nothing to see here, let's move along, etc etc.
So I will talk about A instead. Because A is certainly more interesting *to me*. :)
He is starting to be mobile. (Uh-oh.) Army-crawling short distances sometimes, rolling over and over sometimes--never far; I think his record might be 4-5 feet at a time, and usually while we are not looking so we don't really know how he is doing it half the time--but it's just enough that we REALLY can't put off the whole childproofing thing any longer. He sits well for long periods, though he can't quite get there by himself yet and is still prone to toppling occasionally when he gets interested in something, and getting a solid whack in the head as a result. (So far he's pretty resilient about such things--and to my utter surprise, so am I; D is much more concerned and consoling about the little bumps, which I find surprising.)
He has liked all the solids he's been given, but won't eat very much at a time. (We're working on this, because he is drinking a LOT of formula, which isn't particularly cheap.) Favorites, as far as I can tell, are green beans, blueberry yogurt, avocado and mum mums. He can feed himself the little baby puffs and yogurt drops, but it is hard work for him (still perfecting the pincer grasp, after all) and he'd rather I did it for him.
He sleeps well at night, mostly. (Two nights ago, though, he woke up screaming 6 times in 8 hours. That was highly unusual and unpleasant.) I think we average 9-10 hours of straight sleep. Something like 10:30 to 8:30 is normal. (Yeah, he's a night owl. Shocking, that.) He often eats, plays for an hour, and either goes back to sleep or naps next to me for another 2 hours in the morning while I read. He wakes up, eats again, we have lunch, play for a couple hours, repeat as necessary. Naps suck, other than the first one. I still hold him, in one of two particularly seating positions, or it doesn't happen. I would love more usable time during the day, but at this point I am resigned. Forcing the issue just makes us both cranky.
Play is more playful these days. He likes to knock over stacks of blocks, dump things out of a bucket, bang anything on anything else--there's an overall pattern of destructiveness. :) He will happily play with a book of any kind for ages. A new board book can keep him thoroughly occupied for 15 minutes; a new cloth book maybe longer. He isn't always in the mood to be read to (HATES it when he is tired!) but otherwise he will sit in my lap for story after story, as long as there are some pictures, too. They don't have to go with the story. We went to the beach a few weeks ago and he loved it--the waves and the sand. Also the swimming pool.
He isn't super verbal. I *think* he may be repeating 'hi' and using it vaguely appropriately, but I see no other words in the near future. He can blow raspberries with 17 different consonant groupings, though. He does some wierd fake-coughing noises to get attention, which is kinda cute.
He travels beautifully. Seriously, I cannot complain. We did an epic drive from FL to NC--8am to 11pm, with a stop for breakfast, an early dinner, and a couple rest areas in between. He was only minorly annoyed by the constant confinement. I know that's going to change as he gets more accustomed to mobility...
Aaaaand now it is time for his bath, it seems, and I should go take care of that.