Gross Motor/Movement: Geoffrey's been working on standing by himself. Throughout December, Geoffrey would be able to stand for short periods on his own. Typically he would pull himself up to standing on the couch and then find objects to hold on to - leaving him standing by himself for a few seconds before squatting down to a sitting position or holding on. Recently, he has stood up from sitting by using a squat (no hands) and standing for a few minutes.
He mostly gets around by crawling. He is quite quick. Sometimes he does what we call the "Pirate shuffle," where he crawls on one knee and one foot (half crawl half spider.) Another cute thing he does is sit and use his feet to spin around in a circle (like the old sit-and-spins, but on his own!)
He hasn't started walking, but we've seen him "shuffle" a few times while standing. he cruises everywhere easily. He can also take a few steps while you hold just one of his hands - but his balance is still pretty wobbly that way!
Fine Motor: Geoffrey is getting much better at self feeding. He is clapping more frequently ( a skill he learned in early December.) He can bang objects together, and has recently attempted to roll his cars on the ground. He can open and close doors on cupboards and on his play house, and open and close the playhouse window. He can't quite do the shape sorter yet, but he is starting to recognize the shapes and their matching holes.
Sleep - Sleep is somewhat of an issue. He only sleepd 9 - 10 hours at night, and takes about 2 45 minute naps. We think he needs more sleep, but we can't quite figure out what works for his naps. We're playing with this!
Food - He can eat all solids now except honey, egg whites, peanusts and shell fish. He does better some days then others. He loves wheat bread/toast, bananas, any kind of fruit, really, and, of course, cheerios. He is proficient at drinking water out of his sippy cup. Some days he will eat a lot, other days, not so much.
One of his favorite ways of "testing the boundaries" right now is to drop his food on the floor. He will look right at you and drop his food to see how you will react. So we're trying to balance making meal time positive, and making sure he's eating enough, with teaching him that dropping food is not acceptable.
He really does have a little personality now. Overall he is very happy. But he does have a few impish things. When he's mad, he learned to throw "mini-attention-getting-tantrums" by falling backwards onto his back and crying. Unfortunately, this method didn't always work for him as he would keep his eye on you and not check if there was anything behind him, causing him to often fall uncomfortably on a toy or worse, banging his head on a hard floor. Now, he sort of eases into his preferred on-the-back tantrum position - while still keeping his eye on you, he reaches back with one hand and sort of slowly goes down on his side before rolling on his back - checking to be sure his comfortable before starting his fit. The advantage to this (besides not having to worry about him smacking his head) is that the added few moments sometimes gets him to forget why he was upset. Sometimes he'll lay there looking at you trying to decide what pissed him off in the first place - and sometimes you can distract him from getting upset at all. hee hee - so cute!!!
He mostly gets around by crawling. He is quite quick. Sometimes he does what we call the "Pirate shuffle," where he crawls on one knee and one foot (half crawl half spider.) Another cute thing he does is sit and use his feet to spin around in a circle (like the old sit-and-spins, but on his own!)
He hasn't started walking, but we've seen him "shuffle" a few times while standing. he cruises everywhere easily. He can also take a few steps while you hold just one of his hands - but his balance is still pretty wobbly that way!
Fine Motor: Geoffrey is getting much better at self feeding. He is clapping more frequently ( a skill he learned in early December.) He can bang objects together, and has recently attempted to roll his cars on the ground. He can open and close doors on cupboards and on his play house, and open and close the playhouse window. He can't quite do the shape sorter yet, but he is starting to recognize the shapes and their matching holes.
Sleep - Sleep is somewhat of an issue. He only sleepd 9 - 10 hours at night, and takes about 2 45 minute naps. We think he needs more sleep, but we can't quite figure out what works for his naps. We're playing with this!
Food - He can eat all solids now except honey, egg whites, peanusts and shell fish. He does better some days then others. He loves wheat bread/toast, bananas, any kind of fruit, really, and, of course, cheerios. He is proficient at drinking water out of his sippy cup. Some days he will eat a lot, other days, not so much.
One of his favorite ways of "testing the boundaries" right now is to drop his food on the floor. He will look right at you and drop his food to see how you will react. So we're trying to balance making meal time positive, and making sure he's eating enough, with teaching him that dropping food is not acceptable.
He really does have a little personality now. Overall he is very happy. But he does have a few impish things. When he's mad, he learned to throw "mini-attention-getting-tantrums" by falling backwards onto his back and crying. Unfortunately, this method didn't always work for him as he would keep his eye on you and not check if there was anything behind him, causing him to often fall uncomfortably on a toy or worse, banging his head on a hard floor. Now, he sort of eases into his preferred on-the-back tantrum position - while still keeping his eye on you, he reaches back with one hand and sort of slowly goes down on his side before rolling on his back - checking to be sure his comfortable before starting his fit. The advantage to this (besides not having to worry about him smacking his head) is that the added few moments sometimes gets him to forget why he was upset. Sometimes he'll lay there looking at you trying to decide what pissed him off in the first place - and sometimes you can distract him from getting upset at all. hee hee - so cute!!!
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