Orléane is now...
Xavier is now...
Xavier et François relax
Un doux bébé dans un nouveau pyjamas féroce / Sweet baby in ferocious new pyjamas
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Moi? / Me?
C'est pas un berceau, c'est ma chaloupe! / That's not a cradle, that's my fishboat!
2007
Mar
28
Progrès développementaux - 8 mois
Here we go, I’m 8 months! Time to archive my progress:
- Locomotion
Crawling : I crawl really well - always with the right foot only, though - and can pass over higher and higher obstacles (ex. mom’s knees). I sort of left behind my toys to concentrate on my new passion : exploring.
Snoop : I love to snoop around the house, and find little corners.
Climb : I started to climb. There aren’t many places for it around here, but I will find some, don’t worry about me. I’m getting good at getting on my knees when I’m climbing, and even stood up once.
Standing up : I love to stand up on my wobbly legs when an adult is holding my hands or my arms. Like I said, I stood up once while climbing, too.
Sitting up : Mom still keeps an eye on me when I’m sitting up by myself, but I’m getting more stable - except when my attention is called away by something. I’m also starting to lower down on my belly from a sitting position.
Little mannerisms : I like to swing my head from side to side, and also fold and unfold repeatedly my wrist or fingers for fun. When I’m lying on my back, I often like to raise my butt by pushing on my heels. - Drinks
I started drinking bottles at 5 months and have very gradually multiplied bottles since. I had my last official breast-feeding March 18, 2007, on mommy’s birthday. I drink concentrated Similac Advance, in Playtex nurser (bags) system with latex nipples.
I drink water from a glass during my meals. On March 20, I started to understand how the baby cup works! w00t! I LOVE water, it makes me grin widely.
- Food
I still love cereal.
I eat my vegetables strained, but also mashed. Mom started making some home purees, chunkier, and she puts meat in them. I still don’t like meat very much.
I’m started to get used to fruit. I LOVE mashed bananas, I’d eat them at every meal. Mom sometimes tries other mashed fruits, she sometimes lets me eat with my hands little freeze-dried apple cubes she found at the store; it’s CRAZY! It makes me happy.
Like I said, mom sometimes tries to let me eat with my hands, but I’m still a little young for this and I have a lot of learning to do.
I got some baby cookies. Those things are so awesome! and good. I can bite the cookie and put a quarter of it in my mouth (but my parents don’t like that as much).
- Sleep
I still don’t sleep through the night; I checked with the other little boys, and it seems it’s not cool to sleep whole nights like the little baby girls do quickly. They’re so BORING! Better to party all night long! I drink more rarely at night now, but I wake up crying until mom or dad comes to tuck me back in.
They tried to let me cry, but I’m no fool : when this happens, you just need to drink a little 4oz of milk, and they’ll think you’re not really ready, and you still need milk. My objective : 1 year minimum! Yeah!
- Language
I say “mam” and “memam”, stuff like that; “bababa” too. I tried “peppe…” a couple times, but it’s a little tougher to say. I’m starting to go “mmmm”! and “mmmiem miem” when I eat, to mimick mommy. In fact, I will often go “Mmmm!” even before her, at the start of the meal. I tried “benènn” once, but mom didn’t hear me right, I think. She doubts my communication abilities, but me, I knew I was eating bananas - I just wanted her to know how much I like them!
One of my tricks, it’s to make sound while pulling on my lower lip repeatedly. It does a kind of “babblebabblebabble…” When I do it, adults imitate me. It’s fun to teach them a new trick!
Also, I put the back of my hand on my lips and play Indian, sort of. “Wawawawa…” - Height/Weight/Health
I’m 29″. I don’t have my weight right now, but I’m lean enough. I had a little cold, my first sickness. I got through it ok. - Gear
I got too big for my winter garb, and got a new spring garnment. Red, again! I should get a new car seat soon, too, for the same reason.
That settles the archives… see ya soon!
Tu grandis trop vite, Xavier, j’ai peine à te suivre si loin à Montréal! La prochaine fois que je viens visiter, je veux te voir faire l’indien! Et tu diras à maman et papa de mettre encore plus de photos online de toi, ou des vidéos: j’ai hâte de te voir te tenir debout tout seul mon grand!
Comme ça tu pourras attraper plein de choses que maman s’attendait même pas à te voir attraper! Et puis un conseil: attention à la tête, parce que quand tu tires quelque chose de haut, ça a tendance à te tomber dessus. Aussi: quand tu tombes par terre, ça tombe de plus haut quand t’es debout… attention! Dans pas longtemps, tu apprendras les lois de la gravité… 
Wonderful recap, Xavier! And congratulations on your many accomplishments.
My Norah has yet to master the sippy cup, but loves to drink water from a glass if we help her. She’ll feed herself little fruit poofs, but has a habit of clutching them in her fist…making them difficult to eat. And she hasn’t mastered cookies at all. And as Karine warned, she’s found many items in our house that we had thought were stable to be tip hazzards when she heaves herself up to stand.
Keep up the good work, Xavier!
Moksha, dude, you speak French? Cool.
Xavier hasn’t really mastered the sippy cup, either, though he did manage a few sips, and I’m trying to encourage him in this direction.
To the babies’s credit, it takes a lot of agility to handle food with their fingers. Xavier is slowly getting better at opening his hand in order to get at the food, thanks to the fruit poofs (for I’m assuming Norah’s fruit is similar to what I have for Xavier). He’s gradually getting more fruit in - that is when the fruit sticks on his palm instead of just falling down when he opens his hand. He even shoved 2-3 pieces at a time inside his mouth, at lunch… then found out that may be a little much, which is another thing he’ll have to learn. Heh.
Sadly, I only speak English. I am, however, more than willing to copy and paste comments into online translators to keep up with an interesting conversation.
The sticky-hand fruit bits sound exactly like what Norah eats. The dog end up with more than she does..but she loves them. However, she did turn her nose up at red beans and rice the other day. I had been so looking forward to feeding her that for some reason and I just can’t figure out why a little girl who wants nothing more than to eat pages out of the phone book finds red beans and rice so hidious. I don’t get it.
haha! I know… Xavier once got hold of an ant trap and wanted to put it in his mouth, but green beans… yuck!