Another big month for you. You are on the move. You learned how to crawl at the end of July, but only went a couple feet at a time if there was a good toy you wanted to get. It took you a week and a half to really get the hang of it, and now there is no stopping you! It has become my full time job watching you scoot around and taking floor bits and paper and whatever else you can find out of your mouth. When you crawl, you keep one knee down and one up scooting with your foot to drive you forward. Hoping there are no hip problems in your future! You also love to stand up at whatever you can find to pull yourself up. You are getting more and more sturdy at it and only occasionally fall down now. You love the fireplace step. Lots of interesting things to pull and push on there. Often you fall down off of it, so I try to keep a good eye on you when you are up there. I started teaching you how to back down off of it, but so far the lessons haven’t stuck! You caught on really quickly to your walker, and love to walk behind it! You are also waving hi by opening and closing your hand. You wave bye by moving your whole arm. You can say ‘more’ in baby sign and have stopped screaming for food, although, you’re not entirely done with that. You say ma ma, da da and hi.
You are still a pretty good eater. You like meat, pasta, fruit, veggies, well pretty much everything. Except baby cereal. When you are done, you have started throwing your food on the floor. Sometimes just dropping it off the side of the highchair, but often throwing it. You’ve got a good arm.
You are finally sleeping through the night!! Woo Who!! Well, not consistently, but probably 2 out of 3 nights. Some nights are still very horrible, but I think it’s related to your rash or teething. Sleeping through the night means you are up a bit earlier in the morning, but I’m still happy you are going through the night! So, you also have 1 tooth now and a few more are closely following!
You aren’t so interested in the jumperoo anymore since you’ve gained mobility, but still enjoy the jolly jumper. You love balls! You love to throw toys. You love pulling hair. You like to be thrown into the air…but not too high! You like to go outside. You like watching the tractors. You have realized that you don’t like when we take things away from you, and let us know!!
We have been busy with harvest this month and you do pretty good at eating your supper early so I can get the suppers out to the field in time. Then you are pretty patient as the farmers are eating. You sit in your car seat or try to eat dirt on the jean blanket. Then you and I get to relax together while your siblings go for rides in the combines.
