Harry standing up! Very Pleased! :-)
I am sorry that is has been so long since I have posted to the blog. But things have been a little busy of late. That is really status quo, I guess. So I need to get my act together and just post more often. :-) Anyway....the latest.....the last time I posted Harry had sat up in his crib and we immediately lowered the mattress level. This was a good thing since shortly thereafter Harry started standing up! When Dan went away to Law Vegas at the end of March, Harry decided it was time to start standing up and crying in my direction. This may not seem like a big thing. But standing makes the crying that much louder and somehow urgent. So Mummy caved and went and got him each time - of course, the time when this happened got earlier and earlier in the morning and it took Daddy coming back to give us the fortitude to let poor little Harry finally crumple in a heap and go back to sleep. :-) Anyway...we made it through the standing up in the crib phase and he doesn't seem to be doing it as much anymore, which is a relief. :-)
Other developments on the Harry front....the standing up in his crib has been followed by a great increase in his pulling up on any vertical surface in the house he can get a grip on. Of course, this means that there is also a fair amount of falling over and bumping ourselves with the bruises to prove it. Fortunately, he seems to get over things fairly quickly and keeps trying again. I suspect that standing independently will happen any day now.
His sleep, as per usual, is all over the place. He is still sleeping well at night. But his naps are a constantly moving target. He does seem to be going in the direction of longer naps, however, much to the relief of his mummy. :-)
His eating is progressing well. He has tried pineapple, lentils, watermelon, and fish of late. He has started enthusiastically feeding us his cheerios - a mainstay of his diet - and then smiling broadly at us. He has gone off all pureed foods with the exception of YoBaby yogurt. Now before you shun me for giving my baby WAY too much sugar.....yes, I am giving him YoBaby but it is in an effort to get him to take his multivitamin. (A liquid vitamin that yes, smells as gross as you would imagine it would.) Hopefully the two do not cancel each other out. But I am doing what the pediatrician wants me to do. The nice thing is that he does seem to be enjoying the finger foods we feed him. He just likes to be in control - apparently a typical development as he makes his first steps towards independence.
Overall, he is still SUCH a sweetie. :-) He is, as a rule, even sweeter when he is rested. So we pursue the illusive sleep with much enthusiasm. It is definitely a moving target. But one that we try to hit as often as possible given what a wonderful little boy emerges when it is obtained.
Other developments on the Harry front....the standing up in his crib has been followed by a great increase in his pulling up on any vertical surface in the house he can get a grip on. Of course, this means that there is also a fair amount of falling over and bumping ourselves with the bruises to prove it. Fortunately, he seems to get over things fairly quickly and keeps trying again. I suspect that standing independently will happen any day now.
His sleep, as per usual, is all over the place. He is still sleeping well at night. But his naps are a constantly moving target. He does seem to be going in the direction of longer naps, however, much to the relief of his mummy. :-)
His eating is progressing well. He has tried pineapple, lentils, watermelon, and fish of late. He has started enthusiastically feeding us his cheerios - a mainstay of his diet - and then smiling broadly at us. He has gone off all pureed foods with the exception of YoBaby yogurt. Now before you shun me for giving my baby WAY too much sugar.....yes, I am giving him YoBaby but it is in an effort to get him to take his multivitamin. (A liquid vitamin that yes, smells as gross as you would imagine it would.) Hopefully the two do not cancel each other out. But I am doing what the pediatrician wants me to do. The nice thing is that he does seem to be enjoying the finger foods we feed him. He just likes to be in control - apparently a typical development as he makes his first steps towards independence.
Overall, he is still SUCH a sweetie. :-) He is, as a rule, even sweeter when he is rested. So we pursue the illusive sleep with much enthusiasm. It is definitely a moving target. But one that we try to hit as often as possible given what a wonderful little boy emerges when it is obtained.
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