Baby Milestones

I find it hard to believe that only six months ago we were watching my swollen belly, shouting "get out" to it, and itching to meet our little man. Well in just over a week Peanut will be six months old and is far from the helpless little baby that brought home with us.

It seems like the months have flown by and that Peanut has learnt to sooo much in such short space of time, but it also feels like it has taken him soooo long to figure out how to the simplest of things. I think it a bit of both.

The first time he grasped something in his hand, i remember it very clearly. He was sitting on his bouncy chair. The chair has a toy bar that clips on to it and when we first started to use it, Peanut would stare at the toys, once in a while make a swot at the toys. I remember watching him staring intently at the plastic rings hanging from the bar, then he reached his hand out and grabbed onto them. As he held them in his hand he looked up at me with a "How the hell did i do that?" look on his face. I called M34tb4LL at work to tell him, then took about 2796 photos.

Well that is just one of the many milestones that Peanut has reached, like his first smile, first laugh, playing with his feet, sucked his thumb - then sucked his big toe, turning his head when he hears a voice he recognises, rolled over - and rolled back, reaches out for a favourite toy, cuts a first tooth, and many many more baby steps.

Well on Tuesday he reached another milestone (:

He said 'ma ma'. Now i am not fooling myself that he actually knows what he is saying, i know that he is just experimenting with the new sounds he has found - but it still made my heart melt.

On Thursday he said 'da da', on Friday he said 'na na' and Sunday 'ba ba'. Of course there was plenty of raspberrying and bubble blowing in between. Now today we got what i can only think is kissing practice, lots of lip smacking and tongue clicking. And the funny thing is the talking seems to have taken a bit of a back seat to this new found skill.

So who knows what tomorrow might hold, crawling, walking, running, jumping, shouting "i hate you mum!!!" and storming off to his room (getting a bit ahead of myself there maybe?)

(: Reggie