Morgan continues to roll over seemingly at will. The video captures two times — the first with her using some extra leverage, the second showing deliberate use of momentum.
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Unsuccessful at getting Morgan into mittens, we now put socks on her hands on cold days.
Uncle Andy Wetzel had some business in town, so visited over night.
Morgan’s first green vegetable: peas!
Morgan exploring the wonders of nature, albeit indoors — she liked touching the tree.
Still no video on Morgan rolling from back to front. She does it quite frequently, we just haven’t grabbed the camera yet. But I wanted to comment…I didn’t anticipate how big a shift this was going to be for me. She really is leaving the super-infant stage and moving forward. Which is, of course, good. That is the dream after all.
Compounding the new independence of being able to move herself from back to front…I was at her daycare today, volunteering to watch the kids (with several other moms) during a staff meeting. Morgan was on her tummy and getting very frustrated with her inability to move. This was the first time I had really noticed such a thing. Specifically, she was intently watching two of the other kids playing on the other side of the pen and seemed very frustrated that she couldn’t join them. And yesterday, for the first time, we were told that she was actually playing and interacting with one of the other kids at daycare, Olivia. So I think she is starting to make little friends (of a sort).
All very minor, but it adds up to a big week for me.
As I’ve posted before, she was sucking her thumb quite happily for awhile. Her caregiver at daycare became concerned that she was doing some permanent damage to her thumb, so has been encouraging her to use a pacifer during naps (which is fine with us). A side effect of this is that she seems to suck her thumb less frequently now.
About the time she discovered her feet, she seemed to calm herself by rubbing them together like a cricket. That too has passed.
Her new thing seems to be rubbing or scratching her head. She’ll place her hand on her head (open fisted) and then scratch her head by opening and closing her fist.
I’m a little late with my 5-month post, but here it goes…
She’s discovered her hands and loves to play with them, touching them together in front of her face, holding one hand with the other, etc.
She’s also discovered her feet, loves to hold on to them and put them in her mouth.
She’s become much better at manipulating toys and bringing them to her mouth.
She broke the 14 lb barrier.
She’s out of the size 1-2 diapers and into the 2′s.
She has completely extricated herself from her wedge in the crib on more than one occasion. (Its usefulness might be running its course, but I haven’t thrown in the towel yet.)
She has just started scooting backwards. Her arms are stronger than her legs, so it is easier to push herself backwards with her arms than it is to get her legs under her and crawl or scoot forwards.
Her head control is getting quite good.
She is able to ‘stand,’ supporting much of her own weight on her legs for long periods.
She doesn’t yet sit on her own, but her torso is getting stronger. She’s working on it.
She continues to become more engaged in the world. Lately that has led to some frustration with sitting in her stroller while we commute on metro, so we’ll see how that plays out.
She rolls from front to back, though this is still more of a push up that results in an inadvertent topple over.
She rolls from back to front. Technically we didn’t really have evidence of this last Thursday, but I’m putting it here anyway. Surprisingly to me, this seems to be the more intentional roll on her part. I say surprising, as she still gets frustrated after an extended period on her stomach. Though she now gets bored on her back too.
She’s sleeping in her own room all by herself. We have a baby monitor so we can (hopefully) hear her cry before the neighbors do. The nice thing is we don’t bother her at all and her minor squeaks, grunts, and flails aren’t as disturbing to us. She is occasionally dropping one of her nighttime feedings, but isn’t yet sleeping through the night. I think she’d be sleeping better if she weren’t in her wedge, as she could flail around and put herself back to sleep. However, the flat spot on her head continues to improve and she continues to *always* sleep on the ‘wrong’ side of her head if left to her own devices. So we continue to try to keep her on the ‘right’ side as much as possible.
She continues to be a ton of fun. We’re having a great time!
We don’t have video yet, but it’s official. She definitely rolls from back to front.
Twice in the past two weeks or so I’ve taken her out of the wedge in her crib in the morning and placed her on her back to let her flail around by herself (while we get a few more minutes sleep) and have returned to find her on her stomach. I hadn’t seen her actually roll over and I thought she might be using the crib bars to help pull her over her shoulder. This morning she extracted herself from her wedge by herself and rolled onto her stomach in the crib (again, no one saw her). But then…I watched her roll from back to front on her changing mat with no assistance of any kind. Her reward for this feat of strength? She got to chew on her mat for a few minutes (which she thoroughly enjoyed). Later she turned herself over again on her activity mat. And then once more. So, before getting to daycare this morning she’d managed to roll herself from back to front 4 times. I only saw the one, but it was definitely unassisted. So it’s official. She rolls from back to front.
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