Anybody out there?

My poor little blog, how I've forgotten you. Not forgotten so much as neglected in favor of other things like school, sleep, cooking, cleaning, and other crucial needs.

We're on the other side of Chicken Pox for both boys now. Milo didn't actually come down with it until 21 days after Moses. Milo's fever that we wrote off as a Chicken Pox symptom was actually a double ear infection, poor boy. When he eventually came down with the pox, I was hugely surprised because our pediatrician said that we were out of the woods if he didn't have them 8 days after Moses since the exposure was so intimate. Wrong! He had very few pox though and seemed to weather the virus well. Now, we won't need that vaccination for either boy!

Milo's been crawling for several weeks now and two weeks ago he started pulling up on everything. It's a lost cause to hope he'll just sit in one place anymore. He's cruising our furniture, too, but with lots of supervision since he's still pretty unsteady.

Moses is doing really well too. He's still obsessed with trains, construction vehicles, and sports. I bought a great Tonka truck coloring book from the dollar store, but he doesn't color in it: he just carries it all over the house and we read it like a book. We've also discovered "Mighty Machines." I thought they looked ridiculous initially, but the shows are really pretty great. The DVDs talk about a variety of vehicles and explain what each does and why they do it. It's pretty crazy how much Moses talks while watching those. Boys.

By the way, Moses is most assuredly a lefty! Dave's already planning Moses' sports career. Too bad they don't make sports toys for lefties at this age.

Fun Footage

These video aren't the best, but they make me happy. Isn't that the sign of something great?

1. Moses' laugh at the end of this one brings me great joy.

2. Here, Moses is trying to pull up on some furniture and hold on to his blue tube**. He'd been doing this for awhile before I taped it so his interest is beginning to wane. But, his frustration is still very obvious.

** A component of my exercise ball pump, he's grown attached to that blue tube so much and plays with it A TON. Why is it that he must enjoy non-toys more than toys?

3. Our camera ran out of memory on this one, but even in its brevity--it's precious.

-Lindsey

It's a real crawl.

Out of the blue in mid-August, Moses started to crawl instead the belly scooting he'd perfected. I remember setting him on the floor and watching him get on all fours and crawl like he'd done it a million times. Since then, he's started using it as major form of transportation (aside from me and Dave of course).

Here is crawling around my Gran and Grandpop's (Sally and my Dad) house when we were over to celebrate my sister Maegan's 13th birthday!

-Lindsey

A Story in Pictures: Mobility

-Lindsey

Onward and Upward

Moses has gotten really good at his army crawl so he hasn't shown any interest in traditional crawling: I think the army crawl is gentler on his knees .

Last week, Moses started pulling up on his toys and using them as quasi-walkers. He progressed to this step faster than we expected, and we're still trying to figure out to react. It's fun to watch him, but at the same time, he's always bumping his head and that's not fun for anyone. We really should break down and buy a rug; however, I can't find any I like at a reasonable price. I suppose his head is more important than our living room's aesthetics.


And, we aren't quite sure what he's attempting here.

-Lindsey

Crawl-ish.

Moses hadn't shown much interest in mobility until the Journeys catalog arrived. Is it his well-known love for paper that lit his auto-mobility fire? Or does yet another member of this household have a shoe fetish? You decide.


-Lindsey

So close!

In the past two weeks, Moses has developed a love for the push-up. He does this anytime he's on his belly and doesn't tire of it easily. He'll hold himself in this position, and as soon as his arms fatigue, he belly flops to the floor with a "thud."



It's only natural that his push-up would progress into the crawling form. It has. He can now get on his knees and rock gently. He hasn't figured out how to move his legs, and he's obviously frustrated by the lack of know-how. Hopefully, his crawl will develop sooner than his teeth---which we still haven't seen despite some very irritable days.


-Lindsey