YAY!
Finn continues to grow and develop (as one would expect). It's amazing how excited we can be over the simplest of achievements. So I thought I would show you a bit of what he can (and can't) do these days.
First of all, the major milestone is being able to hold up his head. Unfortunately he's REALLY bad at this. Supposedly he should be not only holding his head up while on his tummy but doing "mini push ups" with his arms.
He's not.
We're at the point now that he doesn't freak out when he's on his tummy, which is good, but he also isn't at all interested in lifting his head. If we use a toy to try and interest him, he attempts to arch his back and roll over instead of lifting his head. Maybe he's just lazy - but it ends up looking pretty ridiculous. Here's an example:
(ps - don't ask me why we call that thing a pterodactyl instead of a butterfly... I don't really know why or how it started, it's just always been...)
We can get him to do it properly if we use a pillow though - as shown in the following video (which was the first time he'd done it, so forgive our enthusiastic glee!)
Of course, if you take the picture at just the right time, it looks like he's a head-holding-up pro!
So his "gross motor skills" are lagging a bit behind where he 'should' be. But we're not too worried because he just seems to be channelling all of his development into his "fine motor skills" which are ahead of where he 'should' be. Even though he's still (as of today's tummy time) struggling with his head, he's VERY good with his hands. He can grab things straight off with very little batting, can pass things from one hand to the other, and has lately even begun to turn the pages of his board books with precision! This video is from a week or so ago but it gives you some idea. Also it's of his mostest favouritest toy EVER - the bucky ball. We can just give it to him and he's entertained for ages. The only trouble is that when he drops it it rolls which is annoying. But his skills are so good that he doesn't drop it very often.
He really loves this thing...
But he's not just working on his muscles. He's also developing more and more of a vocabulary. Well, sort of. Basically it's the same noises but with the new discovery that he can make THEM LOUDER!
These videos don't even do it justice as, again, they're about a week old - and he's just getting louder and more "screechy" by the day. I don't envy our neighbours sometimes (to be honest, I don't envy ME sometimes!). The worst being that he's also taken to enjoying it so much that he will wake up in the middle of the night just so he can talk to himself. He isn't hungry and doesn't want to be picked up - he just wants to lie in his cot at 4:00 am and "ululate" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ululation). I don't want to wake up the neighbours though so we have to pick him up and take him through to the living room, which makes him angry, and either James or I spend the next 45 minutes or so sleepily trying to "hush" him. Other than that, it is pretty funny.
I don't have any videos of him really going at it yet, but I've got these three that show you his range a bit... at least at night when he's drifting off to sleep (or supposed to be) he will "talk" much softer... which is itself rather amusing.
So I'll leave you with three Finn "stories." One quiet at bedtime, one medium during a nappy change, and one loud while he was just hanging out (apologies for the weird angle - he's easily distracted by the sight of the camera). We'll save the truly LOUD for a later post...
A quiet story
A medium story
A loud story
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