I have never seen a baby this crazy about water. He's always been a kicker in the tub, but now he's splashing water everywhere! He actually gravitates towards the tub. Now that he's beginning to pull himself up to stand, he heads straight into the bathroom and pulls himself up alongside the bath tub. (Perhaps because it's the easiest place to stand or perhaps because it's where there's water sometimes...I don't know). But once he sees water, he starts kicking both legs trying to get to it. We set him in the tub and he hits the water with his arms and legs, rolls around in it, sits up, lays down, chokes on it--it doesn't matter as long as he's splashing and getting as wet as possible. It's quite the work out to try to keep this little guy from drowning. The pure look of joy on his face is so cute. He is happiest when he's wet!
Water Baby
I have never seen a baby this crazy about water. He's always been a kicker in the tub, but now he's splashing water everywhere! He actually gravitates towards the tub. Now that he's beginning to pull himself up to stand, he heads straight into the bathroom and pulls himself up alongside the bath tub. (Perhaps because it's the easiest place to stand or perhaps because it's where there's water sometimes...I don't know). But once he sees water, he starts kicking both legs trying to get to it. We set him in the tub and he hits the water with his arms and legs, rolls around in it, sits up, lays down, chokes on it--it doesn't matter as long as he's splashing and getting as wet as possible. It's quite the work out to try to keep this little guy from drowning. The pure look of joy on his face is so cute. He is happiest when he's wet!
Sitting and crawling
Landon is now crawling and, though I thought he never would, sitting! He has always preferred standing, and honestly, it was a fight not worth fighting to get him to bend his legs for two seconds...but he eventually came around to deciding sitting wasn't a bad option. When he turned six months, I sat him up on the floor to see what would happen, and he actually sat, kind of. It was not very stable, but I was still surprised. Now he's a sittin' fool. With crawling, he never did the army crawl. He seems to be a really fast learner. At my parent's house I tried once to get him to start moving his arms, and later that day he was moving his arms. Then here in Oklahoma Ryan held his tummy up, so he wouldn't flop down to reach for his toys, and then he crawled. It's been two days of solid crawling.
Most people say, "Oh now you'll be sorry!" but I don't think so. Landon loves loves LOVES to be held and in on the action. He's pretty easy going when held, but he lasts for about 5-10 mins on the floor by himself. I'm hoping that this crawling business will help him feel more part of the action. I actually brought out the baby sling this week, because I was holding him so much! (He's missing his grandmas, to be sure!)