He Crawls!

He crawls!

Although officially “getting there” for months now, Liam finally crawls with both knees as of this past weekend. Occasionally the “belly-flop / worm-crawl” makes it’s way into his repertoire, but he is now crawling in the more conventional sense of the word.

Liam is interested in entirely different things than Ava was when she was his age. He immediately goes for electrical cords, tv buttons, remotes (of which we have plenty) and doors. He LOVES to open and close the doors of our china cabinet (yikes). We have two of the four doors closed with a child safety lock, but didn’t want to mar the cabinet in any way, so two doors remained open. We may need to find a way to secure the doors for Liam’s benefit.

When Liam gets into something he shouldn’t be “into”, and we tell him “no”, he cries. Poor thing gets his feelings hurt pretty bad when he hears the word! He still doesn’t say any specific words, but has taken to saying “ba, ba, ba” lately. And when he does “talk”, he does so emphatically and like he believes what he is saying.

The last three days / nights have been rough ones for him. He has woken up at least twice on each night crying. He’s not interested in food much these days (shocker!) so we think he is teething. He doesn’t want me anywhere near his top gums. I think he has a tooth or two coming into his front top gum area. And OF COURSE there are two other babies in his classroom who are also teething! Fun, fun. Hopefully the teeth will come in sooner than later, to shorten his misery.

Liam pulls up on anything and everything these days. In fact, he can now stand-up if he is somewhere near any wall / cabinet. He makes his way from the couch to the chair to a toy of some sort, all while holding on. He is pretty courageous and lets go often. Once he stood for about four seconds without holding onto anything, before plopping down to the floor.

Liam really likes being outside. He doesn’t like sitting still in a stroller right now (probably because he’s teething), but prefers to be moving (and really prefers to be moving on his own).

A funny story… I gave blood last Friday. As usual, before leaving, they instruct you to “not do any heavy-duty exercising or lifting”. Umm… have you SEEN my son? :-) It took a little longer for my arm to heal, probably because I was stressing it by carrying Liam! :-)

Peace, love and Orajel,
Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam