Oliver is officially cruising. He started cruising around his play yard last week but just this weekend really got the hang of it outside of the play yard. I think part of what slowed him down in this particular endeavor is the fact that we don’t have a coffee table. I took him to my parents’ house this weekend and he walked all around their coffee table. I brought him home and he has been cruising from one end of the couch to the other. He also spent the first half hour of his afternoon nap time today “walking” around his crib. I’ve got a video I’ll post later this week.
Every time he crawled towards me today he would say “ma ma ma ma ma.” He’s “talking” up a storm lately but the words and the people or objects still aren’t lining up all or even most of the time. He’s still pretty clearly saying “dah dah dah” when he sees the dogs and making a “k” sound when he sees the cats but that’s where it ends. He’s not a mimic at all so we can say “doggy” all day long and he’ll just look at us and smile. But, once this weekend my mother asked him: “Where’s Granddaddy?” and he immediately turned to the office where my stepfather was working on the computer. And, three times today when Brian and I asked him: “Where’s the doggy?” he pointed towards Miles. And, once I asked him: “Where’s Daddy?” and he pointed at Brian. Of course, we asked him these things about a thousand times but still... I’ve always bit a little (okay, a lot) concerned about Oliver’s verbal development so it’s nice to see that he’s starting to figure out that words refer to the things around him. He’s also very consistently acknowledging us when we call his name (when he feels like it). Woo-hoo! It seems like he finally knows who he is.
We had a great week. Oliver came down to the store on Thursday and had lunch with me while Brian ran some errands. After lunch we went and hung out in BookKids and met a little boy named J.D. and his mom. J.D. will be one next week and he and Oliver had a great time playing together. Oliver was crawling around and J.D. got behind him and grabbed his waist. Oliver dragged him all over the kid’s section. Then my coworker, Madeline, came in with her son, Miles, who is two months younger than Oliver. So, the three boys terrorized BookKids for about an hour.
Here's the picture from this week. As you can see, we were once again incapable of getting the little dude to sit still. Here’s what we got:
So, instead we decided to start in on our new project - Sundays With Mommy.
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