July 2010: old-skool, the worm, commando and shuffling on the bum: that's the way crawling's done

[CakeandRoses]

Well that gives them all of about 14 day's worth of chat to get crawling then

they were fab pictures tsc! I must start taking more pics of J again, the number has really eased off now. Once he can sit up without needing my hovering hand behind I might actually have a free hand to take some...

J has really really taken to food and ramped up his intake over the last few days. Today he let me know when he was ready for his tea, and I put him in the high chair while I was preparing it and he was actually trying to eat the high chair. He had his face on it trying to gnaw the tray. I gave him a crust of bread to keep him going. I bought some Plum breadsticks in the pound shop the other day, but they say they are for 12 months plus because of the choking risk - what does anyone think? are breadsticks OK now?

J can wave when he feels like it, and I think he is trying to figure out how to clap. Will get him to practise.

There TSC, I see you're soft play and car seat, and raise you chewing on cot and food face

It is sad when children are old enough to feel the effects of their parents' competitiveness tsc altho it does make me chuckle earlier on when it's directed at oblivious babies.

F was distinctly average with most of his big milestones but early with anything to with 'entertaining' - smiling, blowing raspberries, singing, dancing etc. It used to kill me in classes when po-faced mothers used to say 'oh, Felix is very advanced for his age' as if to excuse their Tarquin for not doing Incy Wincy spider quite as well [as if it bloody matters emoticon] !

R has been clapping for a few weeks, we sing clapa handies (may be scottish) but no waving. Loves bouncing up and down. I don't think anyone on here is competing just interesting to know what all lo's are up to.

wss luckily you dont have to put up wit ils all the time.

tsc thats crap parents doing that with their kids, its petty. Haven't saw tinys pics yet but will go look

Have to try and sleep before R wakes up. Night

So busy finding difficult to post.

L has another ear infection and is teething so its lots of fun here.
Dd thinks 6 is ok to get up and tell me its getting up time.
Bil is pain in arse. Got involved in his business a few yrs ago to help him out or it wld have folded. Now partially due to climate but mainly him, it is insolvent so having to wind it up. Yet if he'd given us info needed to get some bills out wld be fine. he's an idiot who think he's doing us a favour. I haven't even had a stamp and am personally lumbered with 65 quid a month for his phone. aargh!
Bugger battery going flat so will post/rant more in a few hrs

Oh L started waving & clapping today! But also thought 3.30 was time to get up and practice his new skills. Only just got him to go back to sleep

morning everyone!
L only started rolling last week but now rolls everywhere, last night he got on his hands and knees and went backwards, he likes jumping a lot and can stand at the sofa, he wont feed himself but i think boys are lazy at feed time (mine is anyway) dh pushes him to crawl all the time i hate it, my friends lad didnt crawl til a year i hate the way dh is pushing him to grow up, i quite like having a helpless little boy, hes not 7 months yet!! last week we met a cuple with a 6 mo and he could grasp or grab anything he just flapped his arms in the direction of what he wanted and couldnt sit up, the babysitter we had said in that respect L was advanced but i dont know ive got nothing to compare it too!
but he does smile and go all coy and bashful at any woman that looks at him

i feel almost human this morning. A woke 11, 3 and 5.30 which isn't impressive but miles better than the last week. Felix was up screaming about his teeth/poos/'i no like water" between 3 and 5.30 but my saintly dh got him ready for nursery himself and just woke me up for a kiss at 8am. A was still asleep so i went back off til 8.45! When i woke up, A was lying in her crib, wide awake, smiling at me and chewing her rabbit.

talking of my dh, he found a lovely ditsy floral print summer jacket for A in M&S on saturday. he came bounding over with it, all pleased with himself, rather like a golden retriever with a stick

nothing planned today and F is in nursery, so will just relax with A and teach her to clap do a few chores (always seems to be paint that needs to be touched up here )

mlic we need to match up the ends of A and W as she's the opposite, very strong arms and has pushed herself up on them for ages but can't get her arse in the air at all. tis weird because she has super-strong legs and has been standing straight on them for literally months so must be a coordination thing instead i guess.

yay for L's rolls memphis. will be no stopping him now! F certainly took longer than A to get the hang of feeding himself - so on the basis of that scientific study i conclude boys do it later

melissa oh, that all sounds like such a pain particularly annoying when you were trying to help.

but amazing of L to do clapping and waving on the same fuck awful time day

I wish I had slept til quarter to nine, we were up at quarter to 7 .

How does everyone cope with naps now?

It used to be quite easy with J, as you would hold lay him down and white noise shhh him to sleep, but now he's rolling over, moving up to the top of his crib, getting stuck in the bars. Even if I dont get him to lay in one place, his just bangs his feet into the cot. It takes half an hour or more to get him to sleep...

Im always so late in responding.

Dylan knows his name! He has done since about 5 months I think.

He cant clap but can sit up well enough for me to leave him.

He likes to bang toys on the floor/table etc too.

properly laughed at clara's map make sure you get it back to keep - in fact can you upload a pic? i wanna see it!

good luck for your interview. even if you don't want it, it's impressive that you got everything organised to manage an interview! the thought terrifies me.

I just wrote a huge post and it wiped it...grrrrrrrr

MLIC That's what I was trying to do, just walk off and leave him, but he just rolls until he gets stuck. He has a sleeping bag at night, but the tog's too high to use for day naps...maybe I'll pick up another one (we would have to use a lighter one in the summer anyway). He doesn't take a dummy, but I have been using muslins as comforters (I spend half the day walking round with one shove down my top) which seems to help.

I keep telling myself that when we have another one, I wont have the time to sit with them until they fall asleep, but I guess J is just PFB...

v annoying kk

at E's leg-cocking. ideal that!

have just been analysing A's failed crawling attempts (she just went backward if that counts ) and she's doing the exact same moves as F did. They've both inherited my very long torso and i'm wondering if it takes more effort to get it up and supported by their limbs - he did a weird version of the commando (it was the 'worm' in fact as per the thread title!) for months so didn't bother getting his torso off the ground at all.

i guess different body types account for the different types of crawling, hadn't really thought about that before.

hotg

i still swaddle A's arms (just her arms) if she's very awake when she goes down, i then put her dummy in and for daytime naps put a muslin over her eyes (our room is pretty bright as it's south-facing). Most of the time she'll then go straight off but sometimes might lie there chatting or grizzling a bit til she's sleepy, i just keep going back to shh her and replace the dummy.

the reason i'm so hardcore about the arm-swaddling etc is that F was a complete bugger about going down for naps so i looked at every possible means of not having a repeat of that second time around.

oh on the name thing L knows his name, has done for a while and if i say Lyndon Freddie he beams looking proud! just been nurse to have an injection and blood tests and the nurse was playing with L and she said his hand and eye co ordination are way more advance than usual for his age she also said he is a very big boy for his age, well he should be he eats more than my 11 yo sister!!
tsc love the map that clara did, good luck for interview!
hotg L naps at around 10 sometimes for 10 mins sometimes for an hour and thats it all day so by 4 he is grumpy and scratchy by then
just heard from my brother his gf is having a girl im so happy the pressure is now off me to have a girl!