A recap of beginnings in our world these days…
I bought my first Christmas present this week. Fun times!
We’ve begun to crawl for real now. Alex does it most; he seems to have skipped the army crawl. He even crawls to me sometimes. Love that! Erin only crawls very short distances before dropping back to her stomach to army crawl. But she’s definitely getting there, too.
Both babies are showing signs of pulling up. If I’m not mistaken, Erin might even become a climber before too long. Yikes!
Erin is beginning to test her boundaries, which is, I guess, our entrance into the realm of real parenting.
- She desperately wants to get into the shelves in our TV cabinet and can now open the door by herself. She always takes out some of Eric’s connectors to chew on. We now have a routine. I find her, take them away, tell her no, and give her something different to play with. She melts down, complete with red face and tears because she isn’t allowed to have the cords.
- She tests the gates on their “baby enclosure” and if I leave it open, she makes a getaway. And when I bring her back inside and close the gate…she melts down, complete with red face and tears.
- I’m beginning to see a pattern of stubbornness (don’t know where she’d get that!
) with extreme crying when she doesn’t get her way. Great…
Alex seems to be eating things all of a sudden.
- He has taken to eating books. I have found him, twice now, holding one of our board books and chewing a corner off. Actually, by the time I find him, the corner is already gone, and I can only surmise he’s swallowed most of the cardboard he’s ripped off with those sharp little teeth.
- Last week, I caught him eating grass when we were outside for a bit.
- He’s been putting things in his mouth because of teething (and I think he’s working on some new teeth now, too) for a long time, but seriously…he’s eating them now. What’s up with that?!?
I want to start a couple of new little craft projects. But I’m trying to make myself finish one I started before the babies were born first. We shall see whether it works or not.
I am trying to start adding more people food into the babies world now, and mostly skip Stage 3 baby food. Does anyone have ideas for good finger foods for snacks or meals?
And with that, I am ending my post on beginnings. Happy Friday!
Maybe Erin is just telling you that she’s going to respond well to discipline and boundaries – maybe once she understands the boundaries, she’ll be more comfortable and well-behaved within them? Maybe? I hope so! Will discovered how to open the door to our armoire this weekend, as well. First thing out? The camcorder cables! Of course!
And as for Alex… sounds like he is READY for some real food!! Give that child a green bean!
Keagan has just started the army crawl. It is so cute watching him. He has 7 teeth and is sticking everything in his mouth too.
green beans, peas and edamame depending on how well they are chewing Anything that we ate my kids pretty much ate – I just had to be sure and cut it small enough for them. Often the texture of the food seemed to make more of a difference than taste.
I skipped stage 3 with ours too. I don’t remember really fixing them anything special. Pasta is very easy to chew so I think we had that a lot. Green beans (cut) and peas were always a favorite for them, too — still are! I’ll try to remember more.