Bouncy Baby Boy

Not too much has changed since the last posting. Evan is working so hard at making himself mobile. He's able to push his upper body up to his elbows, but still can't really push up. While trying to get his upper body going, his fat little legs will be working. This morning, he was making crawling motions in the crib.

Baby boy likes to be on the go! We joke that he will not tolerate you sitting while holding him and he will only tolerate you standing still while holding him for so long. After so long, my arms feel like they are going to fall off and we have to sit down. I prop my feet up on the coffee table and lean him back against my legs. He usually isn't too happy about this, but if you let him grab hold of your fingers he will work with you to pull himself up into a sitting up position and then he just really amused by his abilities. When he gets bored with that (5 minutes later), sometimes we just take him to his "happy place" - the changing pad. There, we can have all sorts of "conversations" via bubble talk.

Then, we can usually start the rotation between the swing, play pen, Mom or Dad's shoulder, lap, changing table all over again. He is starting to get a preference for the play pen. At first, he was not at all happy about being put in his play pen, now it seems he would rather be in there because he work on his objective of self-propulsion.

We've also found little things that amuse him, like cradling him and then bouncing up and down. I think this is early practice for when he is bigger and able to say, "Again!" He enjoys bouncing activities so much that when you stop, he gets mad and lets you know about it! I'm going to have Hulk Hogan's "26-inch pythons" before too long. But it is alot of fun when he starts laughing and squealing in delight.

We haven't uploaded photos to the computer in a while, but here is one of my recent favs: "My little Simba."