Updates for Lambikins!

Waving "hi" and "bye bye" -- did it for the first time on Monday.  I waved bye bye at her and then she copied me.

She doesn't initiate it yet, but she does it in response.

I still can't count her "mummum" or "dada" babbling yet since it still hasn't been definitely at the correct one of us.  Mummum happens more when she's hungry.

One of the theories is that she can't come close to saying Little Man's name yet and she wants to say his name first but who knows.

She's very vocal these days and on the move.  Still scooting and creeping instead of crawling and far more interested on working on standing than crawling.

Holding onto a chair the other day, she took 2 small steps and she's also done that holding on to my hands (just two small steps).

It's exciting stuff but she's also getting REALLY frustrated!

7 months old

Wow, Lamb is a healthy 7-month-old!

She is getting better with the "mama ma mum" sounds but she still uses them generally rather than specific to myself and she also makes a sound that could be "boo" "blue" or "boob" and since she tends to make it and then open her mouth like a baby bird, I'm guessing it's actually "boob" but again, it's not specific or consistent.

Right now it is still more of her experimenting with sounds rather than definitely identifying things.

Little Man said his first word "mama" when he was 7 months and 1 day old so I am getting nervous re: Lamb not doing it yet.

Avocado for breakfast?

Now the lamb has tried teething biscuits (mostly goobered them down and then got them all over herself) and she's had frozen spinach & frozen banana in a teether/feeder but this was the first time she's had something meant to be eaten rather than just being teething relief.

Creeping

OK, so it's hard to define when Lambikins started creeping as she was mostly moving backwards and seemed like it made her mad.

But she would pull up her knees and rock a bit and then cry and so on.

Well, on Sunday she moved forward slightly after a toy. Wasn't sure if it was accidental or on purpose.

Tonight, she went forward and it was definitely on purpose. So I will count today as her first day of "creeping."

Proud Mommy alert

@ 2003-04-03 07:48:00

Time for an update
Proud Mommy alert

March 21st - age: 35 wks, 6 days
event: repeatedly got into a sitting position from laying down on the floor, without any assistance from ppl or objects. I'd never caught him doing this before although he was sitting up on the 20th and neither Mom H. or I had seen him do it and hadn't placed him in that position (well, Mom couldn't remember if she'd sat him up or not)

STILL March 21st - event: once doing the sitting up thing repeatedly during the morning, he began grabbing Mom's (Yvette's) coffee table and pulling himself up, but not to a complete stand... only pulling himself high enough to then proceed to bite and attempt to chew on the edge of said table.

March 22nd - age: 36 wks
event: one of this top teeth was visible through his gums (this is tooth #3 for Little Man)

march 24th - age: 36 wks, 2 days
event: He pulled self to a stand, multiple times, from a sitting position at Mom H's using her coffee table

march 25th - age: 36 wks, 3 days
event: another tooth up top became visible through his gums (tooth #4)
event #2: He began to "travel" by holding on to the table and then walking around it

I think this is pretty good for a wee man who will be 9 months old on April 13th. (which is odd when you consider that 36 wks makes 9 months)