Mason's Milestones

I have been a terrible blogger lately. It is not that there isn’t tons going on, I just have not had the time to sit down and write about any of it. Whew, where do I begin? Over the past couple of months since my last post in January, Mason has accomplished a few new milestones. He is crawling, has two teeth, “talks” all the time, is pulling himself up and trying to stand and is finally sleeping through the night; now to elaborate on a few of these.

Crawling – about a month or so ago he started moving himself along by doing the belly crawl. He did this for a couple of weeks before getting up on all fours. Even though he was getting up on all fours, he still had not figured out how to move himself forward yet. He would just rock back and forth until he realized he wasn’t getting anywhere so decided to flop down on his belly and he was off again to where he wanted to go. As the days progressed he got faster and faster and we were amazed at how quickly he could get himself from one place to another. We knew it would not be long before he would master being on all fours. This week, he seems to finally have gotten the crawling on all fours down really well. He gets on all fours and he is off. He still flops back on his belly after awhile but for the most part is crawling. Yeah. While this is a major milestone for him, it means a new level of supervision for us. We can no longer put him down on the floor in the den and go on about our business throughout the house. I learned this the hard way the other day. I put him on the den floor and surrounded him with his favorite toys and went to the next room to put away clothes. I was only gone a minute or two and could still hear him as I was just in the next room. When I walked back in to the den, he wasn’t in the middle of the floor any more. He had crawled under the coffee table and in to the corner of the couch and love seat and was pulling on the cord to Dawn’s computer. I quickly took the cord from him, told him no, no and put the cord up out of his reach. I moved him back to the middle of the den and went in to the kitchen. I looked back and he was crawling toward the kitchen table. I watched him for a minute to see what he was after and he was after my computer cord which was dangling from the side of the table. I moved that cord and put him back in the middle of the floor. He played for awhile there with is toys but later found his way to the cords that were connected to the Wii. Ok, son I got it. You have a fascination with wires and I have quickly learned it is time to child proof the house.

Teething – Mason has two teeth right now. The first one was in for about two weeks and then came the second one. He has not seemed to be in any pain cutting these first two so hopefully teething will not be too painful and won’t be an issue. He looks soo cute with his two little teeth. I have tried and tried to get a picture of them but have been unsuccessful so far. Since his teeth have come in he has been doing funny things with his tongue. I guess can feel them with his tongue so he is trying to figure them out and in the meantime is making some pretty funny faces. I am probably encouraging him a bit as well since I stick my tongue out at him and make funny faces back at him.

“Talking” – He has sure been doing a lot more babbling these days. He is starting to put syllables together to make more sounds. His favorite thing to say right now is “da da” “da da”. Funny thing for our family of two mommies but pretty normal for babies from what I have been told. Of course when he says it, I say “ma ma” “ma ma” and he just laughs. He is also saying “ba ba” a good bit as well. When he says it, we show him the bottle so he can begin making to correlation to that as well. We have also been teaching him bye, bye which I think he is starting to get as well. Another cute thing that he has been doing lately has been going “unnhhh” . It is a pretty forceful grunt. We have been grunting back at him and he thinks we are hilarious so we do it over and over.

Pulling up – I honestly didn’t think he would have reached this stage quite yet but he has. A couple weekends ago we had to lower his crib mattress down because he had discovered how to put his hands on the side and get on his knees and look over the railing. Now that has progressed to him wanting to stand. Ms. Margie from his day care told me this morning that he pulled himself up onto on of the bouncy seats and turned himself around to try to sit down. She helped him for fear he would fall but said he could have probably managed it himself. When we go to put him down, he stiffens his legs to stand. As soon as he figures out his balance he will be off and running.

Saved the best for last – sleeping through the night. I have not wanted to jinx myself by talking too much about the success we have had lately with Mason sleeping but let me tell you I am ecstatic about the progress he has made in the last month. He is going to sleep between 7:15 and 7:45 and sleeping until 5:30 – 7:00. He occasionally cries out a couple times during the night but once he finds his pacifier he is back asleep within a few minutes. While I would love for him to stretch his wake time to closer to 6:30 or 7:00 consistently, I do not want to be greedy and am pleased with what he is doing now. Sure beats waking every 4 hours through the night.

Until next time..

Kim