Oh, how he's grown! Ben is now three and a half months old. Time to list some accomplishments...
~Smiling and laughing as hard as ever (not new, but still cute!)
~Ben's ability to grab is getting stronger by the day. In mid-September, he started being able to regularly pull the handle on the plastic frog on his bouncy seat to make the music play. This week, he's started to pull toys attached by velcro OFF of the arch over his bouncy seat and play mat. (This is very surprising to Ben.)
~Speaking of grabbing things... over Labor Day weekend, our little trick of putting a cloth over Ben's boy parts to prevent fountains of pee hit a snag: Ben started snatching the cloth away. Solution: We now give him a toy to hold every time we change his diaper.
~Last week he found his feet! They are apparently quite exciting. He's been hanging on to the tootsies and doing the happy baby yoga pose ever since.
~On July 12, at just one month of age, Ben rolled over from front to back. This week -- at three and a half months -- he finally repeated the performance. Well, we didn't quite see him do it, but we saw the evidence. I returned from the kitchen to find that the boy I'd put on his tummy in the crib was now on his back!
~He's becoming a pro at tummy time, looking like a little seal with bobbing head and flippers.
~He loves sitting up like a big boy... in strollers, on our laps (he likes to sit up to the table and "eat" dinner with Mom and Dad), and in the bumbo seat. His thighs hardly fit, but he loves it. Grandma Levy figured out that his name stool is the perfect companion height for the bumbo seat... so now he can sit up like a big boy and grab and play with things on his "desk" to his heart's content.
~Smiling and laughing as hard as ever (not new, but still cute!)
~Ben's ability to grab is getting stronger by the day. In mid-September, he started being able to regularly pull the handle on the plastic frog on his bouncy seat to make the music play. This week, he's started to pull toys attached by velcro OFF of the arch over his bouncy seat and play mat. (This is very surprising to Ben.)
~Speaking of grabbing things... over Labor Day weekend, our little trick of putting a cloth over Ben's boy parts to prevent fountains of pee hit a snag: Ben started snatching the cloth away. Solution: We now give him a toy to hold every time we change his diaper.
~Last week he found his feet! They are apparently quite exciting. He's been hanging on to the tootsies and doing the happy baby yoga pose ever since.
~On July 12, at just one month of age, Ben rolled over from front to back. This week -- at three and a half months -- he finally repeated the performance. Well, we didn't quite see him do it, but we saw the evidence. I returned from the kitchen to find that the boy I'd put on his tummy in the crib was now on his back!
~He's becoming a pro at tummy time, looking like a little seal with bobbing head and flippers.
~He loves sitting up like a big boy... in strollers, on our laps (he likes to sit up to the table and "eat" dinner with Mom and Dad), and in the bumbo seat. His thighs hardly fit, but he loves it. Grandma Levy figured out that his name stool is the perfect companion height for the bumbo seat... so now he can sit up like a big boy and grab and play with things on his "desk" to his heart's content.
Mom and Grandma and Grandpa Levy have some accomplishments, too.
~I now have three weeks of half-time work under my belt.
~Grandma and Grandpa Levy have likewise survived three weeks of childcare for Ben (2 days a week). [Grandma Kate did have a minor breakdown this week when she momentarilly couldn't access the internet from our house. All should note that this is the only time she's called me at work in the three weeks...]
~Most importantly, our sweetheart, who refused to take a bottle the first two days I was at work, is now drinking like a pro!
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