Category: Milestones

Every day you walk more and more. You have been walking around the living room, kitchen and trying to go to the porch all the time. You are doing very well, more confident and secure at each step. You will be walking around fine during your birthday party on Saturday.

We had our friends Cecilia and Jeff come over for dinner and while we were all chatting you decided to walk around. We didn’t count, but you probably walked at least 20 steps! Maybe you will give up on crawling and walk more now?

We just noticed another tooth cut through, this time is the top right tooth in the front. You were making a funny noise with your mouth and we wondered if you were banging your teeth together, and found the new tooth coming out.

I have been trying to make you pick up certain objects when I ask “where is the …?” Today I asked “where is the bear book?” and you crawled all the way to the shelf and picked up your soft bear book! Yesterday I asked where your frog was and you picked it up from the toy bin. Good job!

You have been taking a few steps here and there for a while, but you always prefer to crawl. Tonight you actually surprised us walking back and forth from mommy to daddy while playing in your room. You were walking about 5-6 steps from mommy to the table, then 5-6 steps from table to daddy, and so on. When you had to walk farther, you just crawled instead. But it was a lot more walking than we ever saw you doing, so we were cheering and congratulating you; and of course having you repeat it a bunch of times.

We have been working on self-feeding for the past couple of weeks. I bought you some teething biscuits and puffs, so we put them on the table in front of you and show you that you have to pick them up and put them in your mouth. The first time you just pushed them all to the floor, without picking up any of them. Then you proceeded to smash them with your hand each time we tried to give them to you. Finally this week you started trying to bring them to your mouth and today I made a little video of you eating them all by yourself!

you’ve started saying ‘ma ma’ (much to mommy’s joy).

(you have been saying da da for awhile if I haven’t blogged that yet)

We can now feel the second bottom front tooth when we touch your gums. It likely cut through yesterday, so now you have 2 teeth and the top ones seem to be coming out soon.

Last night you were waking up more than usual, and seemed very upset. This morning your nanny Ana found out why: one of your bottom tooth cut through! We can’t see it yet, but we can definitely feel it. And it seems the tooth next to it will cut through in the next couple of days. Finally!

Today you took 2 steps and fell on the 3rd.
On the back porch with a nice solid surface below your feet, you were standing very well and decided to walk towards mommy. We were sure to catch you since the concrete surface would not be nice to land on, even at your height.