This has been a big month for him developmentally. He seems just huge to me. He is growing out of his 12mo clothes and weighs more that 23lbs.
He has learned the words Dada and Mama and light. Not that he can always say them appropriately, but he know who and what they mean and sometimes says Dada to his Dada. If you ask him "Where's Dada" or "Where's Mama," he looks right away to the correct person.
He has learned to sit up on his own when he is lying down, to pull himself into a standing position without any assistance, to scoot on his bum and is now starting to make his first frustrated and slow attempts at crawling.
He has started dancing to music, and is very sensitive about hearing and responding to any kind or rhythm or beat. My favorite instances of him dancing are the way he grooves out to the little interlude pieces they play between segments on NPR. Yesterday he was banging his plastic cups together and then started dancing to his own rhythm! Here he is enjoying the classical station:
We have been showing him hand signs for "food" and "all done" and "more" and "light". Today he made his first sign. When I turned on the night light next to his bed, he looked at the light and slowly opened and closed his fingers. Later when I asked him where the light was he did this:
I feel like I'm falling in love with Charlie all over again because he has started reciprocating. He has also gotten really good at expressing how much he likes his parents. When either of us returns after being gone, he scrunches up his nose, breathes hard, flaps his arms and sometimes even squeals in excitement. It is very cute.
He also likes to kiss me, which we're working on finessing. Unfortunately, right now it usually involves him grabbing my hair at the really sensitive areas behind my ears and pulling my face into aggressive contact with all four of his teeth! Still, it is sweet to be SO loved.
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Thanks so much for the videos! They say laughter is good medicine, and they made me laugh!
What a trooper. He makes me think of Dani in Treasure in the Snow... Remember Grandma had to sew felt patches on his knickers?
He is beautiful!
Yay Charlie!
Those were just adorable! Thanks for sharing them.
Oh Charlie, You have the most adorable antics. They are so fun to watch. Thanks, Keren and Jonathan for sharing such wonderful times.
23 pounds???? Woah. You must be getting very buff mommy arms! He's such a beautiful little person. His "whoness" is coming along very nicely :). Say, do you have some sort of non-slip surface put down in your bathtub? Now that Nory can sit she wants to sit everywhere, but in the bath she slip and slides right back into the water.
We got Charlie his bath mat on amazon. It works great for keeping Charlie from slipping in the tub and it has cute Elmo(don't tell Peter!)on it.
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