So here's what we've got...
She's gotten a lot better at rolling over from her stomach to her back. She now knows when she's doing it as opposed to doing it by accident in her sleep - which still happens a bit. And she can now do the back to the stomach roll, but that still seems to take a lot more effort. I've noticed that if she's on her play mat she tries to grab onto something to help pull herself onto her side, sometimes it helps and sometimes not so much. If I get her to her side she finishes the roll with no effort at all, I think its just putting it all together in one sequence that she's still having a little trouble with, but trust me she's working on it and she'll get it soon enough.
She can sit up now! Most of time when you put her in a sitting position she leans over and holds herself steady with her hands and can stay that way for quite a while. I've also been able to get her to hold herself upright for a few moments before toppling over. And she has no trouble sitting if someone holds one of her hands for a little support. It should be no time at all before she's able sit with no support for longer periods.
She has figured out a form of crawling, its on her back! I think this is quite funny. When she's on her stomach she's able to lift all the way up, but really doesn't try to go anywhere. But when she's on her back you see her digging her heels into the floor and moving all about. She's not going more than a few feet, but I don't see that lasting too long. Jake starting crawling at 4 months and had it mastered by 6 months, Brenden had the army crawl at 4 months and "regular" crawling by 7 months, so Rylan crawling on her back at 4 1/2 months seems about right.
Another new thing I've noticed over the past few days is that when I give her a pacifier at naptime/bedtime she's trying to pull it out and then seeing if she can put it back in her mouth again. This seems good in theory, and eventually when she gets it it will be good, but for now its a bit annoying because she's keeping herself up and then getting frustrated. Tired and frustrated are not a good combination for 5 month old babies, or for 32 year old mothers. She only gets the pacifier in bed, but today I gave her one while she was in her exerciser to see what she would do and the same thing happened. She first tried to take it from me so she could put it in herself and then once it was in she tried to take it out and repeat the process.
The last thing I've been seeing more of lately is she doesn't seem to want to stay put. Meaning whatever contraption she's in she wants out. I put her in a bouncy seat while I take showers and the other day I saw her trying to figure out how to unlatch the buckles that keep her in. She sat there fidgeting with it for five minutes determined to figure out how it worked. Also, at the pool on Monday she figured out how to get out of her carseat when I didn't have her strapped in, luckily the carseat was on the floor instead of the bench, that could have been quite the head bonk otherwise! She stretched her body out to move down the seat and then she could feel it tip forward and she started moving a bit faster until she slid right out onto the floor, it was quite the sight to watch.
Needless to say, things are about to get a whole lot more crazy around here! Chris has also been working on walking with her...because you want to get the third child walking ASAP (said with A LOT of sarcasm). I took my first steps around 6 months according to my mom so its not out of the question to see her walking soon, but I would be MORE than fine with her waiting a bit.
I just have to accept that have movers and shakers and that's the way its going to be. Quite frankly, I don't think I would know what to do with a quiet, chilled out kid ;-)
On another note, the boys are great, driving me crazy at times, but great. Chris's parents left for warmer climates for the winter and offered to take the boys for the weekend before they left. The boys had a great time and it was really nice for Chris and I to have some quieter time. We left Rylan with a sitter one night to go to dinner, which we hadn't done in forever. The boys had a lot of fun and were spoiled to death, as they should be when they are with their grandparents:-) I think it was good for them to be the center of attention for a couple of days and to get away from Chris and me. As much as we love the boys and the boys love us, it is always therapeutic to have some time away, Thanks so much Ginger and Pete for taking the boys!
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