A's first tooth (front bottom left) erupted on May 6 and was quickly followed by his 2nd (front bottom right) on May 11th. The teeth are looking pretty good now. They aren't completely in yet but they are getting close.
We had our first night of full uninterrupted sleep on Saturday night, May 15th (and he did an encore the next night!). A still generally gets up once per night but the couple of nights of uninterrupted sleep that we enjoyed this month have been wonderful!
Clapping is A's newest trick. He started doing that on May 27th. He started by pounding on the table when you'd pound and it quickly progressed into clapping. He loves to see that people will mimic what he does.
He army crawls everywhere. His mobility is changing quickly. He's not rolling to get places anymore...its the army crawl. In the past few days, he's learning to get up on to his knees and rock back and forth. I believe that traditional crawling isn't far away and we'll really be in trouble.
A is sitting up for long periods of time on his own. He can't put himself into the sitting position but he'll stay there for a long time if he's placed in that position...or until something catches his eye that he wants.
I took a class in elimination communication at the end of April. I decided that communication regarding urination was beyond my patience level at this time, but we've had great success with #2. Everyone that reads this may think that I'm crazy, but I've changed very few diapers with poo in the past month...and only 2 diapers that I'd consider 'somewhat' messy. A communicates very effectively when he needs to go #2 (think lots of grunting) and I sit him on the potty and he goes #2. He doesn't like going in his diaper and tends to get very vocal if he's trying to communicate with me and I'm not paying attention. I don't know if he'll continue to voice his opinions about going potty and continue to use the potty for #2, but its so much easier to clean him up when he uses the potty that I'll continue to do my part when he lets me know! ;-)
He's getting more and more of a personality. Jut's really noticed that when he comes home, A's whole face lights up and he smiles. He's so excited to see him. Jut's also really good at getting A to sleep. He hold him in the cradle position and rocks him. It always puts him right out. However, A won't let me hold him like that...too similar to the nursing position, I assume.
A entertains himself more. He plays in the playpen while I shower...he sits on the floor and investigates things. He's a very content little guy. However, we've had to hide all electrical cords and move some foliage because they intrigue him a bit too much.
A took his first trip to Impression 5 this month with E's b'day. He had lots of fun playing in the infant area.
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