I owe y’all some photos and I’m going to try to get them up soon. For now you’ll have to do with only my written update.
We started offering Elias banana on Saturday. To give him a taste, we mashed some up and fed it to him and the look on his face was priceless. Since then, we’ve just offered him various sized chunks of banana to play with, but he has little interest in putting any in his mouth yet. I think we’re going to try offering him sweet potato sticks next. Avocado intimidates me because it’s expensive and hard to keep fresh… I don’t really fancy wasting half an avocado every day to let him experiment with it.
On Friday when I put Elias in his carseat, he reached up to bat at the toy hanging from the handlebar for the first time. He’s been reaching for toys for a while now, but his hands never went very far from his body. All of a sudden, he’s stretching his arms all the way out to reach for things. He’s finally reaching up to grab at hanging toys and it’s like a whole new world opened up for him. He loves the hanging toys on the bar of his exersaucer. Speaking of his exersaucer, he’s a pro at it now. He can turn himself all the way around, plays with all the toys and jumps all over the place in it.
All the teachers at daycare comment about what a happy baby he is. They all comment about how he only fusses when he’s hungry or needs a diaper change and how he smiles all the time. I know every baby’s temperament is different, but it still makes me feel good to hear these things. Like I’m doing something right. I love how social he is and how much he loves people and animals. He smiles at every person who smiles at him. The older, mobile babies at his daycare all seem to like him as well. They’ll travel over to him and pat him on the head and they’ll exchange smiles or giggles. Although I do not like all the colds Elias catches at daycare and passes along to us, I do like the fact that he gets to play all day with other babies. There are a couple of spoiled brats at his daycare, but for the most part, all the babies there are sweetie pies and it’s been fun watching them develop along with him.
Elias absolutely adores Teyla and Leah, though he definitely likes Leah more. He watches them whenever they’re on the move and smiles at them when they look at him. He loves to pet both of them although it’s a bit more like grabbing at their fur than petting at this point. Both Teyla and Leah are very gentle with him. Teyla’s gentle with everyone, but I’m surprised by how tolerant Leah is with him. Sometimes she even seems to enjoy his fur grabbing. I’m not sure why he prefers Leah so much. Maybe it’s because she’s softer and her edges are more clearly defined. Teyla’s looking a bit like a mop lately because we haven’t gotten her groomed in a while. Leah also makes softer and funnier noises than Teyla. It will be very interesting to see how their relationships develop with Elias over the next few years.
He’s still not sitting unsupported for long periods of time. He’ll go 30-45 seconds. He understands the concept of using his arms to keep himself upright, but it’s like he just doesn’t care. Same thing with rolling over. He’ll do it from time to time, but it’s not a big concern to him. Mobility is definitely not high on his set of priorities for now and I’m thankful for that. I ordered this shopping cart cover from Amazon which should be here today. I can’t wait to try it out. A lot of the babies in my due date communities are able to sit up in a shopping cart seat even though they’re not quite sitting unsupported yet, so I’m hoping Elias is the same way. Elias likes going grocery shopping with us, but I’m growing tired of using his carseat while shopping. It keeps him very reclined and he tries to sit up to look at the people and objects around him.
I think that’s about it for the updates. I’ll try to get more photos up by the end of the weekend.
Edited to add photos.
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