Squirming Forward

May 15th, 2012 by Nicole No comments »

Melanie isn’t quite crawling yet, but she certainly can move herself around if she’s motivated to.  This weekend we got her to move forward for her books (with which she’s recently taken more interest) and a new set of stacking cups.  This evening she just gradually made her way around her playroom checking things out.  It used to be that she’d sit in one place happily playing with the same toy for several minutes. Now she usually spends just a few seconds with any particular toy before she moves on to something else that catches her eye.

 

 

Swimming pools are scary

May 14th, 2012 by Nicole 1 comment »

Melanie had her first “baby and me” swim class yesterday. She decided she didn’t like the water and cried through most of the class! I thought it might be fun for her and something new. Oh well, we’ll keep on going so that she gets used the water – and hopefully she’ll eventually enjoy it.

As soon as we got out of the water she was happy again.

Daddy stayed out of the pool for some of the class this time so that he could get pictures and some video (thank you hun!). Next time he’ll join us in the water for more of the class.

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Looking cute in my swim suit!

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Before my lesson

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Just got in the pool

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OK, I don't think I like the water

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Floating on my back isn't really that fun

Happy again once we're out of the water

Melanie “jumping” off the side of the pool into the water:

Standing #2

May 9th, 2012 by Ross 1 comment »

As a follow up to my last post. I decided to see if I could maybe teach Melanie how to stand up. For the rest of the afternoon I tried to get Melanie to stand up. After a little while she started to get the hang of it. Right now she really can only do it when I give her my fingers to pull up on which gives her the maximum amount of grip. Funny enough is that later that night during bath time melanie tried to grab the side of the tub and started to pull her self out. I was slightly horrified thinking “what have I done?” which Nicole got a good laugh out of it. Bellow is a video we made that afternoon with Melanie pulling up.

Standing

May 5th, 2012 by Ross No comments »

Melanie is a little behind in demonstrating some of her gross motor skills but one thing she really does enjoy doing is standing up with me holding her. She has yet to ever pull up into a standing position but loves it when I stand her up. Today I had her stand up and hold on to her exersaucer and she seemed to enjoy that. Here’s a little video of her standing up.

So many things are funny!

April 29th, 2012 by Nicole No comments »

Melanie was having a kind of fussy day today – fussing at things she doesn’t normally – like having her diaper changed. However, she was still a happy girl and gave us lots of laughs.  Below are two videos of Melanie laughing around dinner time — with me playing with a vitamin bottle, and with Ross lifting her up and down.