Peter was wondering why I was holding his with my feet. He's sitting up very well now with support. Usually that's a sofa, or mummy's or daddy's hands.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Gardening with babies, 3
He didn't really crawl here, though as you can see he was trying quite hard. Too much friction, I think.
Gardening with babies, 2
I've already mentioned, I think, that Peter's been spending his spare time in the shade under a bush while I do some gardening. This evening he wiggled around on the back lawn for a while until the mosquitos got too thick.
Peter sleeping in his blue lion Robeez, 3 months
I love the soft leather baby shoes made (in Canada, yeay!) by Robeez. Peter's already grown out of his yellow chick ones which inspired my hit song, "Here comes Peter with a chicken on his foot".
Peter and the reading blanket, 3 months
Aunt Cynthia made this quilt for Peter. We've named it the reading quilt: every night, between bath and bed, Ron or I wrap up with Peter in the blanket on this chair in his bedroom, and read a story or three. "Goodnight Moon" is my favorite. Ron likes multimedia books with textured fabric patches. Peter likes funny voices.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Crawling
Peter crawled (or creeped? tummy and arms on floor, pushing with feet) across his blanket yesterday. He has been pushing 4 or 5 inches at a time, but the crucial step of moving his hands forward before they get pinned underneath was missing until yesterday.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Creative expression
Getting a three-month-old to put a handprint on a Father's Day card is more difficult than it may initially seem to the first-time mother.
Grasping
Playing is more obvious than it used to be. Last month, Peter began to wake early (between 4 and five am) and move around and make lots of noise for an hour or so before falling back asleep. I was calling it fussing at first, then "flailing." On Mother's Day, when Peter began to "flail" as usual, I got up with him so that Ron could sleep. Lo and behold, he wasn't fussing, but "practicing" using his arms. When I put him under the gym toy (he was interested in this for the first time a few days earlier), he began to flail in a more concerted way, smashing in the general direction of a hanging toy with a closed hand. He's gotten more dextrous. Yesterday (six weeks later) we noticed Peter grasping a hanging toy with his thumb and forefinger; he's also started using an open hand to spin another toy mounted on a rocker. In the past few days, he's also started holding ("hugging") a stuffed toy ("Powder Puff" the stuffed bear) in the crook of his arm while sitting.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Sleep position
One of the things I've noticed is that baby sleep positions change as they get older. (I must clarify here that I'm basing this comment on my sample of one!) A few days after we got home from the hospital, I remember noticing that Peter had started to uncurl when he slept: until he started sleeping with his arms stretched out to the sides, I hadn't realized that he was consistently sleeping with his elbows bent and his hands near his shoulders. After a few more weeks, he started sleeping with his arms stretched straight out over his head. This became a pretty good indicator of how deeply he was sleeping: once the arms moved over his head, he would be "down for the night," as we say. After that was the zombie-like position where his elbows were bent and his arms were held forward, balanced in the air. Mum says that she remembers us (Charles, Jen, and me) sleeping that way. While he still sleeps on his back in the crib, these days, when he falls asleep on his tummy while nursing or on Ron's chest, he bends his legs at the hip and knee, and folds his arms under his head, in a nice little rectangular package. He's waking right now ...
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