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[missjenniebean]

Can we borrow this from the May board? Or is it too similar to check ins?

Since it is Monday, we need some positivity anyway! Plus we always have awesome things to say but now it will all be in one spot!

What is your baby lovebug doing that you think is worth celebrating!?



Let's hear all the positives of growing!!!

[missjenniebean]

V is trying to pull herself up and loves to chat! She also looks like she is trying to figure out how to use her hands when she drops something.

[erbear]

She can roll herself over from belly to back and is fairly close to rolling back to belly (she can't figure out what to do with her one arm, basically). She smiles and coos and is starting to make a laugh-like sound. She also loves to sit up and see everything!

[stinybean]

J is getting really close to holding her bottle by herself. She can do it for 15 seconds or so. She very often holds her pacifier in. I'm hoping she rolls over soon, she did once like a month ago.

[dmoney]

R has rolled over once but hasnt done it since 8 weeks. She can get up on her side but cant throw her arm over to go all the way. When you stand her up she is putting full pressure on her legs. She has also learned how to play Hide and seek with her blanket when it is in her swing and in the car seat!!

[billyhorrible]

BH "talks" all day long. If he's awake, he's babbling about something.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Charlotte has always been a fantastic sleeper, but for the past 3ish weeks she's been sleeping 7:30pm-5:15am! It sucks to get yo that early now but it will be the perfect time for when I go back into work next week:)

And she started rolling over yesterday! I really thought she would skip that because she haaaaates tummy time so we don't do a lot of traditional laying in the floor time....so proud of her:)

[carolyngrace]

Oscar is smiling ALL the time! Even when he's crying, if I talk to him he will pause and try to smile. The result is the most adorable, confused mix of fussing and smiling.

[tiffbot]

DD is getting good at grasping and holding on to toys and exploring those things on her own. She's able to entertain herself for quite awhile playing on her mat or sitting in her highchair at meal times. I even saw her just staring at her hands yesterday, pretty much like it was the greatest discovery of her life (and it probably was lol!)

I've just noticed an all around change in her in the last week where it really feels like the 'newborn' status is officially gone.

[turtletyme]

Soso can hold her bottle if it's almost empty. She can support herself sitting up momentarily. She rolled at 3 wks but seems to have forgotten since. I swear I have taught her to say hi... But I know it's not really... Lol

[dogmama22]

Z has the cutest giggle, but only one little squeak comes out. He rolled himself from back to belly twice in the MOTN the other day and was so mad! He'll also hold onto things for a little bit if we put them near his hands.

[sabrinaml]

Aug 31, 2015 6:09:34 GMT -5 missjenniebean said:

Can we borrow this from the May board? Or is it too similar to check ins?

Since it is Monday, we need some positivity anyway! Plus we always have awesome things to say but now it will all be in one spot!

What is your baby lovebug doing that you think is worth celebrating!?



Let's hear all the positives of growing!!!

Thank you!!! I was thinking of doing the same thing!

[sabrinaml]

Cole tells stories all the time and is usually full of smiles! He loves to sit and stand and has fantastic neck strength and head control. He's recently discovered his hands so he loves to chew/suck on them. We've been sleeping from 8/9-6 for almost a month now.

[mcp6286]

Hayley just rolled from belly to back! She got one hand stuck and was pretty mad about it but she persevered! She can also support her bottle independently and she talks CONSTANTLY! Her babbling is always topic-appropriate too...she matches our tone perfectly! She loves to stand on the window sill on her strong little legs and talk to everything outside.

[wegrowsheep]

T is a talker, and is loving being LOUD. He also loves getting his legs under him for a supported stand.

[tiffbot]

Aug 31, 2015 8:58:24 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

Z has the cutest giggle, but only one little squeak comes out. .

Haha this is like DD too, she catches on her breath on the first sound!

[erbear]

We also have "hi" over here. Yesterday I was saying something to H like, "LO thinks we should get ice cream!" And she made a noise that sounded like "yeah!" We were laughing so hard!

[kemdupuis]

Beckett is also a talker... He is babbling and smiling all the time. Yesterday, he was legitimately laughing for the first time. I was feeding him and making silly faces, and he would break into this huge smile and just start laughing hysterically. DH and I were both laughing so hard we were almost crying. He is SO close to rolling over. When I've got him on his tummy, he's almost there- I think it's going to happen really soon!

[wegrowsheep]

T has laughed once, and he snorted like crazy. I almost peed myself laughing at him.

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Aug 31, 2015 7:32:28 GMT -5 dmoney said:

R has rolled over once but hasnt done it since 8 weeks. She can get up on her side but cant throw her arm over to go all the way. When you stand her up she is putting full pressure on her legs. She has also learned how to play Hide and seek with her blanket when it is in her swing and in the car seat!!

DD rolled at 6 weeks and hasn't rolled since as well

[carolyngrace]

Yes, the laughing is the cutest! I was just smiling and making goofy faces at DB in the coffee shop this morning and he started laughing back at me. I got all teary eyed and was laughing at the same time. People around me probably thought we were nuts, just giggling back and forth.

[thecatsmeow]

Love this thread, these are so fun to read!

Babe is a champ at tummy time. He has his head way up and looks all around. When using the boppy he will push up with his knees/legs and stick his butt up a little. No rolling over, looks more like he'd go straight to an army crawl. Guess we will see!

He also loves sound effects. We say he is a true little boy, because the more they sound like a bodily function the more he smiles and giggles!

[Deleted]

P is also roll ing belly to back. And before his growth spurt hit he was STTN for the most part. He also loves to "talk" to us and tries to copy the noises we make. It's so adorable.

[musicfrk2002]

J has been STTN for a few weeks now, and before that we were getting a 5 to 6 hour stretch. H said he rolled from tummy to back once but hasn't since then. He is still just looking at his hands a lot, not really doing much with them yet. He likes standing and sitting on us, and gives us huge smiles (me more than H)

[ravinraven216]

LO has great neck strength (we can Superman him and he keeps his head up perfectly) and loves to be sat up on laps. He's also much more into music than I expected. DH and I watched Lilo and Stitch yesterday afternoon and LO was smiling and kicking about like mad whenever there was music.

ETA: DH sang LO "'C' is for Cookie" at dinner time and the kid lost his damn mind. He was squealing and smiling so much DH was having a hard time singing through his own laughter. 

[Bluedaisy]

LO ones to talk and babble at people it's soooo cute!

[missjenniebean]

budders I swear she says "hey" and "yeah" swear. Isn't it crazy?

[dogmama22]

@jemomma I have no experience with potty training yet, but MIL shared the story of how DH potty trained and it's pretty funny. She tried for months to potty train him and he just wasn't having it. He was motivated by nothing, just did not care. She gave up and put him back in diapers. Finally, one day he asked her why he had to wear diapers. She told him it was because he wouldn't pee in the potty. He said "oh," took the diaper off, went potty, and never needed another one.

[tiffbot]

Aug 31, 2015 19:09:23 GMT -5 missjenniebean said:

budders I swear she says "hey" and "yeah" swear. Isn't it crazy?

Is she a member of Outkast?

[teenybird]

Baby J is big on the smiles now, especially for mama and his beloved ceiling fan. He has started giggling even more, including a few times in his sleep - which was one of the most darling things I've ever experienced. Just this week he's been babbling up a storm, and he is mimicking some behaviors. I was playing with him today and stuck out my tongue to blow a raspberry, and he stuck his tongue back out at me very deliberately (he had to take out the toy in his mouth to do it haha). He's discovered the joy of hands, and has been putting them in his mouth constantly, too. He actually looks at the books when we're reading together, and he's a champ at keeping himself entertained on his play mat or in his bouncy chair. We call him ET sometimes, because he's always craning his neck around to look at things; he's very bright-eyed and alert.

Given that we got off to kind of a rough start, my heart swells to see him doing such "normal" baby stuff.