Catching up

Oh there has been so much going on that I need to catch up so here we go!

Little Scooter has been working very hard to be a good boy.  He is such a joy!  When ever someone says that 6 months is magical-believe it!!  Over night he started sleeping better, laughing, talking and even crawling and walking!

He is making noises that include the R, F, D, B, M and sometimes V sounds.  There are still no distinct consonants-but definite sounds and sometimes even yelling.  He was yelling at pup the other day.

At 2am Monday morning Scooter learned clapping.  Its funny how he learned smiling at 2am and then talking and now clapping at 2am.  Its very cute, but would be even better if it Wasn’t at 2am in the morning.

We have started him on solids and are having some trouble.  He is very picky about what he eats and when he eats it.  Sometimes he makes faces before the food even reaches his mouth!!  Other times he will scarf down food but not nurse so well.  If we feed him solids after nursing, or even nursing half then solids then try and nurse half-he won’t nurse well.  Basically if he gets solids he doesn’t want the milk.  If he gets milk first, he doesn’t want the solids.  We are trying to find a balance.

Here is Gram feeding the Scoot Man before we got a real highchair.

He likes pears…

In his new highchair.

Yes, I did say walking.  Walking here, walking there, everywhere.  He even gets upset that I’m holding his hands because he wants to do it on his own.  He is standing on his own-except he hasn’t quite gotten the full concept of “holding on”  so I have to stay near by when he lets go.  He is using things to pull himself up to a standing position.  Walking and standing is all he loves.  Its almost been a hinderance to his crawling.  He didn’t understand for the longest time that crawling gets him places.  He would be on the floor and whine for me to come help him-not pick him up, but to stand and walk

Here he is trying to get my attention

He so does not want to crawl that he is refusing to use his knees.  He is trying to learn to go from stomach to kneeling and then from kneeling to standing.  Here are a few pictures of him “crawling.”  He uses his toes to push and ends of doing a sort of jungle crawl.  I know he will get fast soon, but because he is learning this way-it might take longer than usual.  Of course I have no doubt that he will be walking soon too.  Just tonight he was balancing on a large exercise ball and pushing it down the hallway.  Cammon was right behind him, but he was performing this task by himself.

Trying to get up on his toes

Almost on his toes

There we go!  Now imagine him getting around the house using his toes to inch forward.  I imagine his is growing very strong toes and arm muscles!

So there you have it a walking talking Scooter who is just as adorable as ever!