Preston walked halfway across the room! I total of about 6-8 steps. Before this he's only been taking like two steps at a time, sometimes 3-4 little ones. . He'sting good at letting go and free standing but still can't pull up to a free stand without holding something but you can tell he wants to cause he will get up on one knee and sit there for a while.
@adiaz132003 how exciting! Do you remember about how much time between when he took his first few steps to being able to walk across the room? I know they say not to rush things bc it goes too fast but this is so exciting and i'm just curious : )
@adiaz132003 how exciting! Do you remember about how much time between when he took his first few steps to being able to walk across the room? I know they say not to rush things bc it goes too fast but this is so exciting and i'm just curious : )
His very first step, getting from ottoman to couch, was 4 weeks ago. He only started showing interest in walking about two weeks ago which is where he went from using a step to get to the couch to just letting go and trying to walk to either us or to the middle of the room and taking multiple steps. I would say it's within weeks and my friend, who has a 14 month old bets he will be walking like her by mothers day. We'll see.
@adiaz132003 I bet he'll be walking like a pro by Mother's Day. It only took Charlotte about a month and she walks like a pro. The hardest thing for her is slopes but she's been practicing on the driveway and has gotten really good in a matter of days.
Nah, my boy still just stands while holding onto furniture and tries to cruise, although he had an accident at the daycare trying to cruise the walls. I think he's going to walk like at 15-18 months. He crawled at 9 1/2 months, sat unsupported at 9 months and such. He's a bit of a late milestone kid. Other milestones he's reached - shrieking like a bat outta hell when you touch his bottle while drinking it. We try to tilt it up so he can finish it and he HATES anyone touching his bottle during mealtime. He started to shriek again today at daycare because he took another boy's sippy cup (a toddler) and the boy took it back (nicely) and another toddler pointed at him saying "teacher!" He got so upset. He never used to be this temperamental.
@Delitachan our LO has been so focused on cruising around and standing that I think she'll be late with most other milestones. Although her other talent is cracking herself up, lol.
The bump update for this week said she will start being able to point out objects if we say their name (is this true?) So at dinner, DH and I were talking to her, saying Mama and Dada, etc and she just looked at us and purposely let her food ooze out of her mouth while she grinned, and burst out laughing.
Nah, my boy still just stands while holding onto furniture and tries to cruise, although he had an accident at the daycare trying to cruise the walls. I think he's going to walk like at 15-18 months. He crawled at 9 1/2 months, sat unsupported at 9 months and such. He's a bit of a late milestone kid. Other milestones he's reached - shrieking like a bat outta hell when you touch his bottle while drinking it. We try to tilt it up so he can finish it and he HATES anyone touching his bottle during mealtime. He started to shriek again today at daycare because he took another boy's sippy cup (a toddler) and the boy took it back (nicely) and another toddler pointed at him saying "teacher!" He got so upset. He never used to be this temperamental.
They all do things in their own time. Don't worry! DS started crawling at 5.5mo,standing and cruising at 6,but he just turned 10mo on the 28th, and he still isn't walking. I think he's been focusing on learning words instead (he has three now), putting things together (he's turning into a stacker champ), and otherwise proving unwilling to walk. Lol Your LO is probably just working on other stuff too.
Our LO doesn't do anything of that sort. He just bangs everything or presses buttons. No stacking skills at all. Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
Our LO doesn't do anything of that sort. He just bangs everything or presses buttons. No stacking skills at all. Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
Damien loves to knock things over and bang things together too. We're a bilingual household as well, didn't realize it might take them longer with words as a result but that does make sense. Damien says mama and dada but we definitely know dada doesn't hold any meaning yet, he just loves the sound. Daycare says that he cries for mama but I haven't heard it at home so I dunno.
Our LO doesn't do anything of that sort. He just bangs everything or presses buttons. No stacking skills at all. Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
Yeah, it takes a while for bilingual kids to figure it out, but when they do it's AMAZING! Just remember when the doctor asks you how many words to always include the total of BOTH.
(And DS stacks like a champ but presses no buttons :-))
Our LO doesn't do anything of that sort. He just bangs everything or presses buttons. No stacking skills at all. Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
One thing I've heard for helping kids be bilingual is a technique called "one person, one language". We use it for Preston. We speak only English at home but my dad speaks only Spanish to him. Basically you assign each person a language and they can only address him in that language. The way it works is that it's easier for them to separate how to communicate with each person rather than figuring out which language is which. Right now Preston is already learning some commands in both languages. Our child development lady who comes twice a month told us about this cause she works with a lot of bilingual kids. She said we will notice that one day he will ask us for something in Spanish "comida!" And we respond with "you want food?" Then they start to learn "oh comida and food are the same thing but I say comida with Abuelo and food with Mom" that's when they figure out there are two languages at work the rule is pick a language and stick with it. It's hard for me to not say so e Spanish things to him and my dad tries really hard to not speak English to him. We can speak English to each other though, you just have to use the language bwhen addressing baby only. We are also starting some basic signs that we will all use which also helps bridge the language gap without being verbal so it's even easier for them to communicate back and make connections.
Our LO doesn't do anything of that sort. He just bangs everything or presses buttons. No stacking skills at all. Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
One thing I've heard for helping kids be bilingual is a technique called "one person, one language". We use it for Preston. We speak only English at home but my dad speaks only Spanish to him. Basically you assign each person a language and they can only address him in that language. The way it works is that it's easier for them to separate how to communicate with each person rather than figuring out which language is which. Right now Preston is already learning some commands in both languages. Our child development lady who comes twice a month told us about this cause she works with a lot of bilingual kids. She said we will notice that one day he will ask us for something in Spanish "comida!" And we respond with "you want food?" Then they start to learn "oh comida and food are the same thing but I say comida with Abuelo and food with Mom" that's when they figure out there are two languages at work the rule is pick a language and stick with it. It's hard for me to not say so e Spanish things to him and my dad tries really hard to not speak English to him. We can speak English to each other though, you just have to use the language bwhen addressing baby only. We are also starting some basic signs that we will all use which also helps bridge the language gap without being verbal so it's even easier for them to communicate back and make connections.
My inlaws always speak French to Damien and at daycare he is exposed predominantly to French. At home we speak English tho my husband will read to him in French.
Yeah, I recall doing some research on this during my graduate studies. Not entirely related to my major, but it was something I came across. I live in a border city and my in-laws are immigrants from Mexico - they speak only in Spanish and it's rare for them to use English. The daycare infant teacher speaks only Spanish as well, and then my husband likes to use Spanish to LO so perhaps that's why he's not saying much or doing commands at all in my presence, since I'm the only one who speaks English to him.
Damien figured out how to be the "hider" in peekaboo today. He kept holding his book in front of his face, then would quickly take it down to see my husband. Giggled in delight the whole time. It was the cutest friggin' moment.
Damien figured out how to be the "hider" in peekaboo today. He kept holding his book in front of his face, then would quickly take it down to see my husband. Giggled in delight the whole time. It was the cutest friggin' moment.
Damien figured out how to be the "hider" in peekaboo today. He kept holding his book in front of his face, then would quickly take it down to see my husband. Giggled in delight the whole time. It was the cutest friggin' moment.
I love it! The big belly laughs are good fun, but the giggles make it seem like they're sharing some joke with you.
I will say that baby being the hider in peekaboo is lots of fun until it's 7:50 am and you're late for work, and you're just trying to drive the kid to his daycare while also doing your make up in the rearview mirror, and baby is yelling insistently until you look up at him via the carseat mirror and rearview mirror to yell "Peakaboo, there's Miles!" so that he can smile and pull his lap blanket back over his head to repeat the whole process every 15 seconds for the entire drive. Not that this scenario ever happens to me... every morning... for the last month
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Damien figured out how to be the "hider" in peekaboo today. He kept holding his book in front of his face, then would quickly take it down to see my husband. Giggled in delight the whole time. It was the cutest friggin' moment.
I love it! The big belly laughs are good fun, but the giggles make it seem like they're sharing some joke with you.
I will say that baby being the hider in peekaboo is lots of fun until it's 7:50 am and you're late for work, and you're just trying to drive the kid to his daycare while also doing your make up in the rearview mirror, and baby is yelling insistently until you look up at him via the carseat mirror and rearview mirror to yell "Peakaboo, there's Miles!" so that he can smile and pull his lap blanket back over his head to repeat the whole process every 15 seconds for the entire drive. Not that this scenario ever happens to me... every morning... for the last month
I apologize in advance but I definitely laughed when I read your post. For your sanity's sake, I hope the morning drive "peekaboo" game doesn't last too much longer. We're on our 3rd mirror thus far and they've all sucked...the current one doesn't even stay in place.
@vintagevix2016 our mirror never stays in place either, I assumed the problem was my lack of focus & attention to putting it in right, haha. And @art+lea2013 I'm impressed that Miles can communicate with you via the mirror! our LO hasn't made this connection yet but then again the mirror is so rarely in place...
@vintagevix2016 our mirror never stays in place either, I assumed the problem was my lack of focus & attention to putting it in right, haha. And @art+lea2013 I'm impressed that Miles can communicate with you via the mirror! our LO hasn't made this connection yet but then again the mirror is so rarely in place...
The 1st one we had did pretty well but once we bought the new carseat and moved it to the middle rather than one of the side passenger seats, there was no place for it. The other two that followed stuck to the window...well "stuck" to the window...not well though, obviously. Drives me nuts. Damien always cracks a smile when he sees me looking at him through the mirror, so cute.
My LO learned the social cue for clapping. When we're at church and the congregation claps for mother's day, he, facing the wall, started clapping too. My husband said that when he took his mom and LO out to eat, there was a birthday party. They clapped after singing and LO, not looking at them, clapped his hands too If I say "bravo!" he goes "baba" and claps
Preston hasn't started clapping or pointing yet but he does love to wave. Anyone else?
No clapping or pointing yet and I wouldn't really call what he does waving...he puts both arm up and with limp-wrists, flails his hands and arms. He thinks it's hysterical.
Jack will clap when he knows he's done something good or if we say YAY! but no pointing and his wave is mostly just his arm stuck straight out. As far as words go.. we've got Mama, Dada(that just stared on Sunday, he obviously didn't know it was Mother's Day) and he kind of said Love you a few days ago a handful of times but now refuses. Are y'alls LOs saying more words?
Jack will clap when he knows he's done something good or if we say YAY! but no pointing and his wave is mostly just his arm stuck straight out. As far as words go.. we've got Mama, Dada(that just stared on Sunday, he obviously didn't know it was Mother's Day) and he kind of said Love you a few days ago a handful of times but now refuses. Are y'alls LOs saying more words?
We think we might have heard a purposeful "mama" on Sunday. My husband and Damien were on the couch hanging out while I was doing something around the room and in the silence, Damien just goes, "Mama," looking at me. I responded, of course, gave him a kiss and continued what I was doing. Haven't heard it since though. Daycare says he sometimes says it after I drop him off. *shrug* I dunno, still not sure just yet.
Charlotte says mama and dada and knows who is who. She'll usually cry and throw in mama if I don't get to her quickly. She waved for 2 days and hadn't done it since. We get a lot of clapping and pointing, she'll do one big clap when she wants something now. If we say yay or good job she'll clap.
We have no clapping, no distinct pointing, but we have waving and he leans towards things he wants. Tristan isn't an overly verbal baby, but he understands the meaning of words like mama, papa, book and kiss. He loves to play with his mama and papa. We are his favorite toys. I have been trying to get him to clap forever, I gave up on that and am now working on him saying mama. Oh and he loves to kiss any of his toys that have a face... So cute!
Ethan claps (and thinks it's hysterical) but doesn't wave very often. He has been saying mama and dada for awhile. He just started saying "up" when he wants us to get him from his baby jail or playpen. Most everything else is just babbling. He has just started mimicking us when we put our hand on our mouth and tap it on our lips with our mouth open, making the "ah ah ah" sounds. He finds that very entertaining. Lol.
Miles gestures like crazy, but the words are a little slow. I think the sign language is really helping him place meaning to actions. He has two signs that he does really well, and two more that he is starting to do, but the hand motions are still all over the place. He can wave, point, clap, and blow kisses, but it's more like slapping himself in the mouth. He also has gesturea that coordinate with certain books we read. He can flap and stomp on cue when a certain book is read, and will sometimes remember to raise his hands and shrug his shoulders at one part.
He doesn't babble mama or dada much anymore, but he does say 'ba' every time he sees a ball and used it this weekend while pointing to a balloon. I gave him credit, it's round like a ball. I think I've heard 'up' and 'hi' a few times, but not consistently.
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Miles gestures like crazy, but the words are a little slow. I think the sign language is really helping him place meaning to actions. He has two signs that he does really well, and two more that he is starting to do, but the hand motions are still all over the place. He can wave, point, clap, and blow kisses, but it's more like slapping himself in the mouth. He also has gesturea that coordinate with certain books we read. He can flap and stomp on cue when a certain book is read, and will sometimes remember to raise his hands and shrug his shoulders at one part.
He doesn't babble mama or dada much anymore, but he does say 'ba' every time he sees a ball and used it this weekend while pointing to a balloon. I gave him credit, it's round like a ball. I think I've heard 'up' and 'hi' a few times, but not consistently.
When he does the hand motions is it clear what he means? Charlotte has a hard time with more she does more of a clap.
Miles gestures like crazy, but the words are a little slow. I think the sign language is really helping him place meaning to actions. He has two signs that he does really well, and two more that he is starting to do, but the hand motions are still all over the place. He can wave, point, clap, and blow kisses, but it's more like slapping himself in the mouth. He also has gesturea that coordinate with certain books we read. He can flap and stomp on cue when a certain book is read, and will sometimes remember to raise his hands and shrug his shoulders at one part.
He doesn't babble mama or dada much anymore, but he does say 'ba' every time he sees a ball and used it this weekend while pointing to a balloon. I gave him credit, it's round like a ball. I think I've heard 'up' and 'hi' a few times, but not consistently.
When he does the hand motions is it clear what he means? Charlotte has a hard time with more she does more of a clap.
He's gotten 'more' down precisely in the last week or two, but it started out alternating between the clap and fist bumping with himself. He did that for a month or a little less.
He can sign for 'more' and 'all done' now and actually uses them pretty complexly. He'll sign 'all done' first and immediately follow it with 'more' so that we know that he's done with that exact activity/food but would like something else similar (done with veggies, wants fruit for example). We're working on drink, book, ball, and please. He knew the sign for milk at one point, but lost it when he started to crawl and could just get to my lap/boobs himself
Me: 32 DH: 31 *The old lady by 5 whole weeks* Married: 11/2013 M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Y'all make me feel so much better! My "friends" on social media that have kids younger than Jack are saying that their kiddos are saying like 10 words! I'm thinking, man we sure are far behind! It sounds like we are right on track!
Our LO is all about moving around but not so much about talking or gestures. She sort of carries on mini dialogues with us, just with babble and tones, but no recognizable words except we think she sort of says "yeah" in an agreeing tone.
She has one funny gesture where she reaches her arm out but her palm is facing up, not out, so it looks like she is presenting something. We're not quite sure what it means but maybe she's just reaching out to us. No clapping or waving though, she just laughs when we do it.
We changed up some baby gates so Preston has more access to the house and yesterday started walking laps around the house. Now he can walk while holding things and rarely needs support unless he he stepping over something or if he's really tired. Still pulls himself up to standing but is getting more frequent with standing without help. He also squatted and picked up toys then back up again with zero support yesterday!
Madelyn is pointing (she likes to "boop" pointer fingers with us) and will clap, and does a pretty weak wave but I think that's what she's trying to do. She doesn't say "dada" but she'll say "mama" sometimes, and sometimes I even think she means me when she says it. Other than that, a lot of babbling but no words. My son was very speech delayed (required intervention) so I'm really not sure what normal is, but I think she babbles more than he did at this age. She has taken some steps on her own and loves to walk (and I got her first steps on camera, along with a TON of false starts haha), and my FIL told me she stood up on her own without assistance yesterday but I haven't seen that.
Where I think we're pretty behind though is drinking. She can feed herself with her hands (we haven't attempted to give her a spoon or fork yet, because, eyes, and flailing) but she doesn't want to drink out of anything that isn't a bottle. I'm so sick of cleaning bottle parts and I would really love to try to move to a cup at least during the day but I don't know how to get her to use it.
Madelyn is pointing (she likes to "boop" pointer fingers with us) and will clap, and does a pretty weak wave but I think that's what she's trying to do. She doesn't say "dada" but she'll say "mama" sometimes, and sometimes I even think she means me when she says it. Other than that, a lot of babbling but no words. My son was very speech delayed (required intervention) so I'm really not sure what normal is, but I think she babbles more than he did at this age. She has taken some steps on her own and loves to walk (and I got her first steps on camera, along with a TON of false starts haha), and my FIL told me she stood up on her own without assistance yesterday but I haven't seen that.
Where I think we're pretty behind though is drinking. She can feed herself with her hands (we haven't attempted to give her a spoon or fork yet, because, eyes, and flailing) but she doesn't want to drink out of anything that isn't a bottle. I'm so sick of cleaning bottle parts and I would really love to try to move to a cup at least during the day but I don't know how to get her to use it.
Damien is still pretty adamant about drinking only from his bottle as well. We know he has the ability to drink from his sippy cups because he will drink a little here and there, but these days he wants nothing to do with it. We leave one with just water out for him to mess with, even if it's just playing, so that he gets used to it. We tried encouraging the sippy cup during the day over the 3-day weekend we had here last weekend but it was an utter failure, so we're taking a break and will try again next weekend. It sucks, I'm right there with you. I've tried offering different kinds of cups over the past month and a half as well and there's only one that he doesn't completely hate (straw one).
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I think he's going to walk like at 15-18 months. He crawled at 9 1/2 months, sat unsupported at 9 months and such. He's a bit of a late milestone kid.
Other milestones he's reached - shrieking like a bat outta hell when you touch his bottle while drinking it. We try to tilt it up so he can finish it and he HATES anyone touching his bottle during mealtime.
He started to shriek again today at daycare because he took another boy's sippy cup (a toddler) and the boy took it back (nicely) and another toddler pointed at him saying "teacher!" He got so upset.
He never used to be this temperamental.
Says mama or dada since 5 months, but doesn't realize what it means. Then again, he's raised very bilingual, so I heard that it takes longer.
(And DS stacks like a champ but presses no buttons :-))
One thing I've heard for helping kids be bilingual is a technique called "one person, one language". We use it for Preston. We speak only English at home but my dad speaks only Spanish to him. Basically you assign each person a language and they can only address him in that language. The way it works is that it's easier for them to separate how to communicate with each person rather than figuring out which language is which. Right now Preston is already learning some commands in both languages. Our child development lady who comes twice a month told us about this cause she works with a lot of bilingual kids. She said we will notice that one day he will ask us for something in Spanish "comida!" And we respond with "you want food?" Then they start to learn "oh comida and food are the same thing but I say comida with Abuelo and food with Mom" that's when they figure out there are two languages at work the rule is pick a language and stick with it. It's hard for me to not say so e Spanish things to him and my dad tries really hard to not speak English to him. We can speak English to each other though, you just have to use the language bwhen addressing baby only. We are also starting some basic signs that we will all use which also helps bridge the language gap without being verbal so it's even easier for them to communicate back and make connections.
I live in a border city and my in-laws are immigrants from Mexico - they speak only in Spanish and it's rare for them to use English. The daycare infant teacher speaks only Spanish as well, and then my husband likes to use Spanish to LO so perhaps that's why he's not saying much or doing commands at all in my presence, since I'm the only one who speaks English to him.
I will say that baby being the hider in peekaboo is lots of fun until it's 7:50 am and you're late for work, and you're just trying to drive the kid to his daycare while also doing your make up in the rearview mirror, and baby is yelling insistently until you look up at him via the carseat mirror and rearview mirror to yell "Peakaboo, there's Miles!" so that he can smile and pull his lap blanket back over his head to repeat the whole process every 15 seconds for the entire drive. Not that this scenario ever happens to me... every morning... for the last month
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
And @art+lea2013 I'm impressed that Miles can communicate with you via the mirror! our LO hasn't made this connection yet but then again the mirror is so rarely in place...
My husband said that when he took his mom and LO out to eat, there was a birthday party. They clapped after singing and LO, not looking at them, clapped his hands too
If I say "bravo!" he goes "baba" and claps
He doesn't babble mama or dada much anymore, but he does say 'ba' every time he sees a ball and used it this weekend while pointing to a balloon. I gave him credit, it's round like a ball. I think I've heard 'up' and 'hi' a few times, but not consistently.
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
Jackie likes to clap when other people clap. Same with waving and (kind of) blowing kisses. No pointing yet.
He can sign for 'more' and 'all done' now and actually uses them pretty complexly. He'll sign 'all done' first and immediately follow it with 'more' so that we know that he's done with that exact activity/food but would like something else similar (done with veggies, wants fruit for example). We're working on drink, book, ball, and please. He knew the sign for milk at one point, but lost it when he started to crawl and could just get to my lap/boobs himself
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
She has one funny gesture where she reaches her arm out but her palm is facing up, not out, so it looks like she is presenting something. We're not quite sure what it means but maybe she's just reaching out to us. No clapping or waving though, she just laughs when we do it.
Where I think we're pretty behind though is drinking. She can feed herself with her hands (we haven't attempted to give her a spoon or fork yet, because, eyes, and flailing) but she doesn't want to drink out of anything that isn't a bottle. I'm so sick of cleaning bottle parts and I would really love to try to move to a cup at least during the day but I don't know how to get her to use it.