Another milestone update....
Gardner is now:
1. Saying "bye-bye" with prompting. I guess this counts as his first word. He said "ma-ma" and "da-da" at four months or so, but was the babbling or talking? Too close to call it. I will just put it down in the record books that his first words were "bye-bye."
2. Gardner can also "gimmie five." He hasn't gotten down the "slip me some skin" version, but he can at least gimme five.
3. Gardner knows how to rock, whether he's placed in a rocking chair or on a little rocking horse (he received Ken's old one this weekend as a gift from his grandparents). How'd he know to do that?
4. He says "HUH-uh" whenever he enters a new place, as if he's saying, "OH-oh, I know where we are!! Oh, yes!" He also phrases the same syllables into a question, or as a general conversation piece as he strolls about or plays in someone's lap. It's his main language tool now.
5. He is finally drinking out of a bottle....yay! Many of you know how much of a back and forth issue this has been for a long time. He can drink out of a bottle if he is, one, distracted somehow, and two, pinned down into a carseat or stroller so he's forced to drink it and not throw it around the room. :)
Gardner is now:
1. Saying "bye-bye" with prompting. I guess this counts as his first word. He said "ma-ma" and "da-da" at four months or so, but was the babbling or talking? Too close to call it. I will just put it down in the record books that his first words were "bye-bye."
2. Gardner can also "gimmie five." He hasn't gotten down the "slip me some skin" version, but he can at least gimme five.
3. Gardner knows how to rock, whether he's placed in a rocking chair or on a little rocking horse (he received Ken's old one this weekend as a gift from his grandparents). How'd he know to do that?
4. He says "HUH-uh" whenever he enters a new place, as if he's saying, "OH-oh, I know where we are!! Oh, yes!" He also phrases the same syllables into a question, or as a general conversation piece as he strolls about or plays in someone's lap. It's his main language tool now.
5. He is finally drinking out of a bottle....yay! Many of you know how much of a back and forth issue this has been for a long time. He can drink out of a bottle if he is, one, distracted somehow, and two, pinned down into a carseat or stroller so he's forced to drink it and not throw it around the room. :)
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