Most Recent Milestone

SchmennaLeigh · #1 06-20-2006, 08:46 AM

For those of us with first year kiddos, what is the most recent milestone your little one has reached? Feel free to talk about others as well. I just love hearing about growth and development of children.

NOTE: It is not wise to compare your own child to the children of others. All children develop at different times and in different ways. This is not a thread to make all of us worried. It's basically a chance to talk about our little one's most recent accomplishments!

StorkWatcher · #2 06-20-2006, 09:53 AM

Ahh Jenna. YOu know we love to brag! These milestones are SOOOO exciting! I"m trying to write every one down in his book. But some are hard. Like the first smile? Who knows. So I would just note each month if he'd been doing something the past few weeks.

But - he's been scooting and moving around quite a bit for several weeks, and last Friday HE STARTED CRAWLING!!! Yippee - SO FAST, too. Just like he's been doing it all his life. Suddenly, the dogs just aren't so sure about this little creature in their midst.

His "words" - he really doesn't do a lot of consonant sounds yet. Most of them are "G". "Guh guh". And he likes to blow raspberries. Apparently, he'd forgotten that from a couple of months ago and found that fun noise again!

His little pincer grasp is starting to emerge, also. It's fun to watch him pick up and handle things.

He's so cute. Now of those next teeth would just come in!!!!

SchmennaLeigh · #3 06-20-2006, 11:12 AM

Very cool! Nick is in the "rocking back and forth" phase of learning to crawl. But he is scooting around his play area, also known as the living room!

I try to keep updated with each month's milestones in the "Montly Newsletter" on our family blog. This past month he has started to stand while holding onto things.

I love it!

Emster · #4 06-20-2006, 11:15 AM

Gosh, Roo is starting to do so many things. The most recent--he found his thumb quite definitively over the past 2 weeks and CANT GET ENOUGH! Its very cute becasue he hasn't mastered getting the other four fingers out of his eyes while he's doing it. The other thing he is doing well is trying to sit up by himself. When we're feeding, he lets us know when its time to burp by trying to sit straight upright from a reclined position. Most of the time he wants to stand up, and has for what seems like ages. But he is totally on his own strength while he's up, just doesn't possess an ounce of balance of course. He is grabbing, not batting, at his toys that hang above him now. Teh past two weeks have been very exciting to watch! BTW, he's 3 mos old.

HBV · #5 06-20-2006, 12:15 PM

H has been pulling up and standing in his crib for a week or two. This week he's done 2 new things---he's figured out how to lower himself back down when he wants to (as opposed to just falling over) and on Sunday he cruised most of the way around his room by himself---a circuitous route with a detour at the diaper genie, but a cruise nonetheless.

Also, yesterday for the first time he started patting pictures in his books when you said the word. We were reading GOOD NIGHT GORILLA and he patted the picture of the gorilla. Mom was reading him WHAT DO YOU SAY and he patted the lion and the cow when she got to those pages. It's hard to tell if it's a real connection, but it seems pretty consistent. He just turned 9 months last week.

pechocha · #6 06-21-2006, 12:52 PM

Sophia started bouncing back and forth while sitting (we think she is dancing) while watching one of the baby Einstein videos "The Farm" So cute!!!! She also said da-da which my husband was so excited about!!! Just waiting for my turn.

Isa

SchmennaLeigh · #7 06-21-2006, 12:59 PM

Isa; Nicholas didn't say Mum-Mum for about a month and a half after the first Da-Das. Silly kids.

HBV · #8 06-22-2006, 10:52 AM

Sort of a bittersweet milestone was reached yesterday. H had to have his first haircut. It was beginning to get in his eyes and he was starting to have one really long Donald Trump-like strand that would wind itself around the top of his head or stick straight up like an antenna.

StorkWatcher · #9 06-22-2006, 11:35 AM

WHAT? At how old???? I've already told my hubby that unless he has a deathwish, he is NOT to cut a single hair on baby A's head until I have absolutely OK'd it. I'm hoping he'll eventually end up w/ those sweet little boy curls by the time he's two. Awwwwwwww.

How sad. Did you do it at home or take him somewhere?

HBV · #10 06-22-2006, 01:30 PM

He's 9 months. His hair doesn't curl--must be that Native American so it was hanging all over the place or sticking straight up (and not in a cute way) I was a little sad about it, but at the same time, he's SUCH a gorgeous kid that I hated to have the messy tufts all over the place marring his perfection. Not that I'm biased or anything.

We took him to the salon I go to, and my hairdresser used the layering shears (no sharp points) to clean it up. We were laughing the other day about some of his early photos where (at the time) we thought he had a lot of hair, but when you compare them to the last month or so he really looked like a cue ball.

timni · #11 06-22-2006, 01:35 PM

we have cut dd hair 3 times already, but like yours it is very straight. When her hair started growing the hair she was born wit was about 2 inches longer and very crazy.

McNally720 · #12 07-16-2006, 06:52 AM

I love this thread! It's a little trip down memory lane...the sitting, the "bouncing dance", the rocking back and forth...it all goes so fast!!

So technically, we've only got 3 more weeks to hang out here til we're done with the first year. Lately, here's what Monkey-girl can do:

Back up and go down feet-first--down the stairs, off the bed and off the couch. Somehow, going down head first is no longer appealling, THANK GOODNESS!

Load up her "cart" (push toy) with whatever she can find and tear through the house at 20mph. She's all about loading and unloading.

The words!! OMG--"uh-oh", and yesterdy, honestly, there's something that sounds like "thank you" and "I love you" and "I love you too". Seriously. Her godmother heard it too, so I'm not making it up.

I could just go on and on, but I won't.....

SchmennaLeigh · #13 07-16-2006, 06:56 AM

Ha! I got a picture of her tearing through the house with a cart in my head.

Though, being from Western PA originally, we call them buggies.

Ah, milestones are fun.

Gardenia · #14 07-16-2006, 12:18 PM

Allison rolled from her back to her tummy for the first time yesterday. She's been going from her tummy to her back since 10 weeks. We gave her lots of cheers when she finally made it all the way over...she's been working so hard at it for a few weeks. We're so proud!

snaps · #15 07-16-2006, 08:30 PM

Jessica has tackled many milestones lately. In the last month or so she got her first two teeth, started crawling, started sitting up from a crawling position, is pulling up and now is starting to cruise. Needless to say she is into everything! My little baby is growing up too fast. I think if she could she would start running. She is also saying dada, mama, nana, yaya, baba, etc. She likes dada the most - much to my chagrin

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