Milestone Month
According to Babycenter Josiah is ahead of schedule on just about everything except speech development, and that he's on-time. This week he has made a huge jump in development as 9/23 he got up on all 4's, and yesterday afternoon when he did he lunged forward to get my mom's iphone! He hasn't figured out how to pick up each limb individually, but now he is mobile :( He's been rolling over both ways for about 2 months.
He should be able to sit on his own by now, except that he hates sitting - he'd rather be standing, which he can do for a few seconds on his own while he's holding on to something.
Next month, it says to start working with the babies to have them be able to grasp objects and switch from one hand to the other - he's been doing this for over a month! And a couple weeks ago, he started taking the pacifier out of his mouth, and trying to put it back again (he rarely gets the mouth part in, usually he bites on one of the ends, but still...).
We started him on solids about 2 weeks ago expecting him to sleep longer - not quite! Now he goes to bed about an hour later, and wakes about an hour earlier! Oh well, about every other night, he is down to one feeding per night if he's really zonked. Otherwise, he feeds around 1am and 5:30am. So far he's eaten bananas, apples, squash, yams, and carrots. He hates sweet potatos - epic fail. And later this week, he will be trying plums.
Lastly, his speech. Starting Sat morning, he started saying "da-da-da-da-da" over and over. He listens intently to everyone, and likes to talk to himself too in the car. He can turn towards sounds, and sometimes responds to his name. He's been smiling for weeks, but now it is super easy to make him laugh - because he's tickelish on his ribs (where his daddy is tickelish!).
We can't wait to see what he can do by Christmas! He'll be 8.5 months then.
He should be able to sit on his own by now, except that he hates sitting - he'd rather be standing, which he can do for a few seconds on his own while he's holding on to something.
Next month, it says to start working with the babies to have them be able to grasp objects and switch from one hand to the other - he's been doing this for over a month! And a couple weeks ago, he started taking the pacifier out of his mouth, and trying to put it back again (he rarely gets the mouth part in, usually he bites on one of the ends, but still...).
We started him on solids about 2 weeks ago expecting him to sleep longer - not quite! Now he goes to bed about an hour later, and wakes about an hour earlier! Oh well, about every other night, he is down to one feeding per night if he's really zonked. Otherwise, he feeds around 1am and 5:30am. So far he's eaten bananas, apples, squash, yams, and carrots. He hates sweet potatos - epic fail. And later this week, he will be trying plums.
Lastly, his speech. Starting Sat morning, he started saying "da-da-da-da-da" over and over. He listens intently to everyone, and likes to talk to himself too in the car. He can turn towards sounds, and sometimes responds to his name. He's been smiling for weeks, but now it is super easy to make him laugh - because he's tickelish on his ribs (where his daddy is tickelish!).
We can't wait to see what he can do by Christmas! He'll be 8.5 months then.
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