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
Monday 30 July 2007
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Recommended Age (?????)
Baby toys is a quite the - well for want of a better thing to say - industry!!!
There are a number of brands that have many ranges of toys for all ages of babies, infants and children and keeping track is a bit of a task. Plus if one was to follow the age recommendations to the tee then i feel twice as many toys would be purchased than necessary, but i think that might be what they want!
Peanut had many toys in the age range 'birth' or '0+' bought for him when he was born, meaning that were considered safe for a newborn baby to play with. But when babies are newborn, they don't tend to play! they don't tend to much more than eat and sleep!!!
There are a few brands of toys that have different sets of toys for different 'stages'. 0 - 3 months, 3 - 6 months and so on. The funny thing is, is that by the time Peanut was starting to show real interest in the 0 - 3 month toys, he was nearly 3 months and theoretically should have been moving on the next 'stage' by then.
He is nearly 6 months and is still enjoying playing with the same toys the 0 - 3. Does this mean he is behind? Is playing with for want of something else play with?Or do the toy companies put out these many toys of many stages to make us buy more of them! One of the silliest things about the 0 - 3 toys is they have specially designed textures and made of specific materials to help with teething, when most babies get to at least 6 month if not older before they get teeth. Now for those of you who don't know, Peanut has actually gotten his first teeth already - but then he is quite advanced.
Wait a minute i have just contradicted myself there *shrug*
These days any toys with eyes, plastic ones, are considered not safe for children under the age of 3 years. Mostly because the eyes can be removed and swallowed by the child, so all soft toys for children under the age of 3 tend to have eyes that are embroidered onto the face.
Today while in a popular toy shop i saw a very cute blue teddy bear (there was also a pink one for girls) with "Happy 1st Birthday" printed on it.
Please excuse the quality of these photos, they were taken on my mobile phone. Plus i had Peanut in the BTD and he was trying to grab the bear off me. The first photo is not bad, but the second here is quite the bit blurry (:
So anyway the bear is being sold as a bear for a 1st birthday, but on the tag attached to it, it say it is not suitable for children under the age of 3!!!!! With bold print saying WARNING - CAUTION
So if toy manufacturing company can't decide their target age range, what hope do the rest of us have!
(: Reggie
There are a number of brands that have many ranges of toys for all ages of babies, infants and children and keeping track is a bit of a task. Plus if one was to follow the age recommendations to the tee then i feel twice as many toys would be purchased than necessary, but i think that might be what they want!
Peanut had many toys in the age range 'birth' or '0+' bought for him when he was born, meaning that were considered safe for a newborn baby to play with. But when babies are newborn, they don't tend to play! they don't tend to much more than eat and sleep!!!
There are a few brands of toys that have different sets of toys for different 'stages'. 0 - 3 months, 3 - 6 months and so on. The funny thing is, is that by the time Peanut was starting to show real interest in the 0 - 3 month toys, he was nearly 3 months and theoretically should have been moving on the next 'stage' by then.
He is nearly 6 months and is still enjoying playing with the same toys the 0 - 3. Does this mean he is behind? Is playing with for want of something else play with?Or do the toy companies put out these many toys of many stages to make us buy more of them! One of the silliest things about the 0 - 3 toys is they have specially designed textures and made of specific materials to help with teething, when most babies get to at least 6 month if not older before they get teeth. Now for those of you who don't know, Peanut has actually gotten his first teeth already - but then he is quite advanced.
Wait a minute i have just contradicted myself there *shrug*
These days any toys with eyes, plastic ones, are considered not safe for children under the age of 3 years. Mostly because the eyes can be removed and swallowed by the child, so all soft toys for children under the age of 3 tend to have eyes that are embroidered onto the face.
Today while in a popular toy shop i saw a very cute blue teddy bear (there was also a pink one for girls) with "Happy 1st Birthday" printed on it.
Please excuse the quality of these photos, they were taken on my mobile phone. Plus i had Peanut in the BTD and he was trying to grab the bear off me. The first photo is not bad, but the second here is quite the bit blurry (:
So anyway the bear is being sold as a bear for a 1st birthday, but on the tag attached to it, it say it is not suitable for children under the age of 3!!!!! With bold print saying WARNING - CAUTION
So if toy manufacturing company can't decide their target age range, what hope do the rest of us have!
(: Reggie
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