Well - mostly. Baby G finally figured out crawling forward last night. He had been getting around the floor quite nicely anyway, but it would be a 2-3 crawls forward, sit back on his bottom, turn himself about, go backwards, etc. type of thing. Then, suddenly, another developmental switch flipped and he started crawling forwards all over the place yesterday afternoon.
He can steer his walker quite nicely through the kitchen/dining room. We need to baby proof the kitchen now as he can open the cabinet doors. We have put the baby friendly magnet toys on the fridge for him - it keeps him mildly entertained when I need to clean out there. But, he is a killer with the walker. If I am standing at the sink, he sneaks up behind me and trys to kill me by tripping me when I turn around.
Baby G has been waving "bye" for the last couple of weeks as well. I had seen him do it randomly a couple weeks prior to that, but I am certain now that he knows why he is doing it, lol! I am working on teaching him a very few baby signs so he can communicate with us a bit. But, babies are pretty good at doing some of their own sign (think of waving bye-bye as one of them) - we just have to figure them out sometimes.
M & G are still playing piano. Med. G was in a spot where Young M was a while back - the songs (though good for skill building) were not familiar, thus not much fun. Young M, when at the same spot, was blessed with an easy Sound of Music book from T. She LOVES that book and plays many of the songs by heart now. I regularly hear Edelweiss & 16 going on 17 during the day. Soo, for Med. G, we made a trip to Interstate Music and found some other books. One I selected was one of traditional patriotic music (and some older folk music songs mixed in). Young M picked out a soundtrack from Narnia book and we picked out another that had music from the newer Star Wars movies. She already has a couple that she is working on. Med. G was thrilled with the Star Wars Music. It is hard (much harder than where he is at, really), but I told him to start working on the top line of his favorite (theme music from the movies). He is taking it slowly, but getting there. Young M has requested music from the musical OK. That and some "easy" classical music from the masters. I know it is out there, but one book at a time, lol! I know they did not have the OK one at IM, though, so I may have to order it online.
Med. G has outgrown his last bike. It was borderline last summer, but he grew so much over the winter that we had to put it away. Thankfully, we had another bike sitting there. Our friends the T's had given us Ben's old bike (almost used, lol). He is short, so it fits Med. G beautifully! It is a several speeded bike (8 or 10?) with only hand brakes, so that was a challenge for him. Young M is still using her bike and I suspect she will be using it for another year or 2. She does not grow as fast as Med. G - that boy is a bottomless pit. We will need our own cow and chickens when he gets a couple of years older, lol!
Anyway, that is all I can come up with for now - summer has finally arrived up here and I am thankful. Have a lovely week!
It sounds like lots of things going on at your place. Ds R did some volunteer work at the library last night. He's not thrilled that he has to give up some computer time, but as I keep telling him, it'll look good on a resume.
We look forward to seeing you and your kids again soon. :)
I am so glad M is liking the Sound of Music music :) Have you looked at White House for music? I hesitate purchasing music online, since I can't flip thru the book and see how hard/easy the music really is. Otherwise, sheetmusicplus.com does have OK, but I'm not sure if it is at the same level as SoM or a level above. L has the Star Wars books and she regularly busts out with Vader's theme, but right now she is on a Phantom kick (and I thought I was getting tired of the Star Wars music all of the time). DH enjoys listening to us play, but we just had the piano tuned, so now I can't blame my playing on an out of tune piano :)
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We look forward to seeing you and your kids again soon. :)
Karie