Dear Beckett,
My little big man, this has been your BIGgest month yet!!! You are mobile. It has been a rapid development and has required some fast adaptation on the part of your caretakers. On September 30th, you army-crawled for the first time!! We caught video of your new skill one day later.
You started pulling up with more regularity. Rapidly progressing from needing a solid object to pull yourself up to just needing to hold onto something for balance.
On October 2, our dear friends from Champaign came to visit, bringing their precious girl, Bailey, who had just taken her own first steps! Since that moment, a light bulb went on and you have been unstoppable ever since. We visited Brookfield Zoo again while they were here. It was a mini-reunion of sorts for me as I got to spend time with two of the girls that I survived graduate school with, their husbands, and their kiddos. It had been a very long time since we had all been together, but as we are all mommas now, we had plenty to discuss. :)
On October 10th, you sat-up from a lying down position. You started getting up on all fours regularly and your dad and I help our breaths waiting for that first real crawl. For awhile, you would hover for a moment and then drop to your belly to move around. On October 15th, while your dad and I played with you in your room before bed, we saw you crawl for the first time. Just a few strides before you again dropped to your belly, but you had done it. It was only a couple of days before you had crawling down, but why stop there? Just one day after crawling for the first time, you also started cruising. Omg. To say that your dad and I were stunned would be a huge understatement! You started cruising while holding on to your crib, the sofa, or the rail on the freezer drawer. You were so proud of yourself. It certainly has been fun to watch you figure things out, but. Definitely have to keep a better eye on you now!
You are not walking on your own yet, but I would not be surprised if it happens soon. You will stand unassisted for a few seconds at a time. And you have voluntarily let go of everything a couple times too. Once, you took one wobbly step towards me before falling into my arms. For now, you are perfectly content holding onto our hands (sometimes just one of them) and wandering around.
Bedtime is now 8 pm. We head upstairs around 7. Play for awhile. Then
it's time to nurse, read some stories in the rocker, change into your
jams, wash your face and brush your teeth. We still sing every night
before I kiss you goodnight and put you in your bed. Most nights you go
to sleep without an issue. It is quite lovely not to have to fight
with you.
It is a huge relief that we are down to just one feeding during the night. You are still waking for that feed sometime between midnight and 2 am. Then you will usually sleep until 5, when you nurse again and I can sometimes convince you to snooze with me for awhile longer. Your sleep became challenging again once you really started figuring out how to move. You just cannot turn your brain off, baby. You sit-up and sometimes even stand-up in your crib without really even waking up. We come save you and you just drift back off. And yes, you still sleep with us after your first waking at night. We all get more sleep that way. I suspect this latest bout of overactive brain will continue until you get that walking thing down.
Your current favorite things include:
~giving kisses. To us. To your books with baby pictures in them. To your stuffed animals.
~removing things from cabinets, especially my water bottle because it makes such a lovely sound when dropped on the tile floors
~finger puppet books--Hungry Caterpillar, Little Lamb, Dog I Love Best
~knocking down stacks of pretty much anything
~the Xfinity cable commercial
~making a surprised face when your dad or I say "boo!"
~singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with the hand motions
In the coming month we will celebrate your first Halloween AND your first birthday. Ohmygoodness. Love you so much!
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