Things That My Son Can Do
1) Crawl. He’s been doing this sort of army-drag-myself-on-my-stomach thing for the past two months. While we were in Hawaii, however, he moved on to full-fledged crawling. This was development was very welcome because along with the stomach dragging came this grunting sound that Brandon and I were not very fond of.
2) Cruising. Another thing that happened while we were away was that Soren decided he was going to pull himself up to his feet and move around. This has opened up another world for Soren and whenever he does it, he looks absolutely surprised by himself. Like, he just can’t believe his strength. When I go into his nursery to get him up from sleeping, I just sit in the rocking chair and talk to him while stands, sits down, stands, sits down. He really enjoys showing off his new moves.
3) Grow teeth. He now has two teeth on the bottom and two on the top. I also noticed today, that two more are peeking out on the top. The teething experience has a lot gotten easier and he hasn’t been a total grump this time around.
4) Swim! I took Soren to his first official “starfish” swim lesson yesterday at the local community center. Now when I say “swim,” I say it with a grain of salt. The lessons mainly consist of me and seven other parent/tot duos just holding our babies while in the pool and letting them sort of kick. But I did dunk him totally under water. Twice. And he was brave.
5) Turn nine months old. This hasn’t really happened yet, but in a week, Soren will have officially been with us for three-fourths of a year. Everyone said it would go fast, but WHOA. As Aaron Rabideau says, “You’re totally in the baby time warp.” Truer words have never been spoken.
That face! I remember those days… I am so happy for you Britta.