Sunday, October 25, 2009

Kaleb Newness

Some new updates on Kaleb, now 4 and 1/2 months. But first, I just want to take a quick moment to declare how lucky we are to have such a wonderful baby. He's so well behaved and almost always really happy, not to mention super-healthy so far. He's so much better behaved than I ever could have hoped for and I'm SO grateful for that. Anyway, back to the updates:

**His first tooth has emerged. Right now it's just a white little snag on his gum(s?), but it has definitely broken through. His bottom right tooth. The left is trying desperately to catch up. So exciting!!

**Recently I noticed that Kaleb likes to cross his feet a lot, something that I tend to do when I sit on the bed or on the floor when I have back support. Just one of those funny quirks that my baby has inherited.


**Kaleb is now rolling over quite easily. Below is the link to a video showing his expertise. Plus it shows how much he likes to hear my duck voice. It's almost always a guaranteed smile!!
**So now, of course, because Kaleb can roll over, he finds himself in very odd positions while he is trying to get to sleep or when he wakes up from a nap. Sometimes he rolls over and can't remember how to get back on his back, so he'll just start wailing in frustration until i come in and roll him back over. He strongly favors being on his right side and has often taken 2 hour naps completely on that side... waking up with a swollen eyelid and fuzzy red marks all over his face. Below is a video of me finding him after a nap in what seems like an awkward position:
**And lastly, Kaleb now is getting really good use of his very large hands, from shoving them in his mouth to grabbing random toys and my hair. Now he is learning to hold his bottle on his own. The bottle in this video is small, but his hands totally engulf it. It makes me so thrilled to see these little advances in him!!

1 comment:

LlamaMama said...

So, so fun! Loving the picture of your four crossed feets!

If you think these advancements are great, just wait until they actually start talking ... or reading ... or making their own PB&J's ... or playing the piano ...

The best has got to be when they start reading scriptures on their own. Mark's been doing it for about six months or so and it still makes me misty every time he does.