| New Year New Acheivements | Sunday, 20th January 2008 |
| Development in terms of weight is much on a plateu - and that is normal or so they say. You can see why. Now he is mobile he is in to everything. Last Sunday he suddenly started crawling on all fours - up to then he had stuck rigidly to his SAS approach slide - keeping low and using his arms and legs to belly-slide along. Now he swaps from one to the other depending how low the ceiling is! When under the bed the belly slide is perfect; as he exits four limb drive is called for and he accelerates away... Yesterday he was allowed to discover the stairs (I fitted the gates in the morning). He was up to the top with no instruction and no catches from me in seconds then turned around and on his way back down again in no time. Today - overconfident - I needed to catch him twice and ensure he turned around at the top as he tried headfirst to see if it worked... Energy is abound and the strength with it is awsome. He is at the point of needing us to use threatening withdrawal of priviledges for bad behaviour already - trying to hold him and wipe his bottom is just too difficult. (and messy) So - as he hates being in his cot except to sleep he gets put in his cot if he does not lie still and guess what he lies still. At this stage I can't say he has a great deal of intelligence - the things he works out are too unpredictable. I hate kids being used as toys to show off so I am not going to do anything other than observe. The things that show cognitive observation are considerable. He tries to reach to door handles to pen doors. He searches for the obstacle if a door he can normally open won't open - eg is something is stood against it he will move it away. He will develop a skill so if he pushes on his play area barrier and it moves he learns and uses that skill to move another barrier so he can reach through and get what he wants. Memory - he remembers his toys and thinks where they might be - if I ask him to get his favorite toy he looks around and if he cant see it he goes to his toy box and looks through that. So he not only knows the words he is processing the instruction and reasoning to respond. I am sure he has quite a wide vocabulary now even though he does not say recognisable words other than mumna, dadda and hello. In walking terms he stands and walks confidently with both hands supported - eg with his brick trolley. With one hand supported he will stand and take one or two steps only. In communicating he now use side to side head movement to indicate 'no' and seems to be using this with some confidence and predictability - eg when he has had enough food or milk or does not like something. He does not say 'yes' this way and never nods his head. In all respects neither I nor Cathy have detected any problem attributable to his problems at birth. Remarkable and the good news continues to defy logic and all medical predictions. |
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