So much has changed in the last month! Here's what Lexi has been up to this past month:
Rolling Over: Lexi finally rolled over from her tummy to her back and back to her tummy. Before she would only roll on to her side and then roll back. One night she finally decided to make it all the way over. It was all because we took her pants off! This little girl is so funny because once you take her pants off she is all happy! Apparently it helped her roll all the way over too!
Feeding herself her bottle: When Lexi was around 4 months old she would hold up her bottle for a few seconds. I thought she'd be holding it up on her own shortly after that but she never really did. Then a couple of weeks ago I gave it a try again and to my surprise she held it up all the way and knew how to tip her head back to get the last few drops from the bottle. Now we are able to prop her up in the Boppy and she feeds herself! We still have to keep an eye on her though because she gets lazy and will let the bottle fall. We've also noticed she doesn't usually finish her bottle when she feeds herself. I think she gets distracted. Plus she's eating more baby food now so I think she needs less milk. Here's a short video of her feeding herself.
"Da da" and other babblings: About a month ago Lexi starting saying "da da". I didn't want to admit it at first but now it's pretty obvious that's what she's saying. I try to get her to say 'mama' but everytime I try she just says "dada dada dada" as you can see from the video!
Standing but no crawling: Lexi is still not crawling yet. She definitely prefers to stand. We've been putting her on her tummy a lot more and she's getting so close to crawling but she just hasn't done it yet. She will move backwards on her tummy but she can't quite figure out how to move forward. She's very good at standing though and can hold herself up if she's leaning on something. Maybe she'll just go straight to walking! Here's a video of her standing up on her own (I couldn't figure out how to rotate the image!).
such cute videos! the second one reminds me of johannah!...to this day johannah still does that (says dada when i tell her to say mama)! nick LOVES it when she does that...i'm sure brian loves it too when all she says is dadada ;-) your time will come when she starts saying mama! can she pull herself up onto things? you wait when she does...those things in the basket she was playing with will not be there anymore and instead the whole basket will be somewhere where she can't reach it!
ReplyDeleteSome great milestones!! Love the videos too! It's funny cause Landon's legs are really strong too and he definitely prefers standing verses sitting..I always joke that he'll skip rolling over/crawling and go straight to walking. Oh and the dada video cracked me up..so stinkin cute!!
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