Week 48 & 49 - Keep 'em coming!

Week 48 & 49 - Keep 'em coming!
(7/11/10 - 7/24/10)


First let me say that I am the proud mommy of an 11 month old! WOW how the time has flown! In less than a month I will have a one year old on my hands! Look out world here he comes!!!

These past two weeks were very busy weeks for Andrew, he had another "burst" of milestones. The ones he achieved are pretty good ones, personally my favorite milestones. I know that a babies first real smile is always awesome! But for me there is one thing that barely inches that first smile out of the top spot! And that is waving! Andrew has been working on waving for a few weeks now. But unless you physically picked his arm up (while saying bye bye a million times) he wouldn't continue or start the wave on his own. His waves started out as full body/arm convulsions (hehehehehehe too cute) but then progressed over the last two weeks. He now does the ever cute backward hand wave, where he opens and closes his hand but it is in the wrong direction and he is waving to himself. He also initiates the wave about 60-70% of the time. You have to be the one to start saying bye-bye and waving yourself (or someone waves to him) and then he will pick his hand up and start waving!! TOO AWESOME!!!!

Another HUGE milestone that we got last week is "pulling to standing". He has been crawling for awhile now but never pulled up to standing until now. He is pretty fast though and will try and stand on anything, including things that can't quite support his weight. So we have had a few bumps and bruises as well as a scrap/cut under his eye from where he has fallen! He is taking a few steps (cruising), but hasn't quite figured that part out yet, but boy if I know Andrew cruising the furniture will not be too far away! I am sure that will be a video that I will post on this blog sooner rather than later!

As if the past two milestones weren't enough he is "imitating" a lot here lately. Andrew has never been an imitator (much to the worry of his mother) but recently his personality, a rather silly one at that, has started coming out. And Andrew has started imitating us. Most of his imitations are physical rather than verbal and our favorite one is "sneezing". If you either pretend or real sneeze he will imitate it. Although we learned rather quickly that this is his favorite imitation right now and that you have to watch where you initiate this because he will take his head and whip it downward without regard of where he is. We have had a few close calls where table tops were barely missed by his forehead!