Done Worse

It’s pretty obvious that we haven’t been blogging much lately. We have brilliant ideas for blog posts, we’re all set to write them, and then, well, life happens. Keeps happening in fact. And keeps happening faster and faster, as our little chaos maker gains size and skills.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

July started off like every other month for parents with a small kidlet. We’re busy and tired and there’s always more to do, but this should surprise no one. The important thing is that we were keeping our heads above water and making it. Barely, but making it.

And then comes the Chaos Maker and all hell breaks loose. Our boy has been slow on the whole crawling/walking front. He’s good with bouncing, and with fine motor skills – like picking up peas to eat – but crawling and walking, not a whole lot of interest. He hated tummy time, and when we put his favorite toys at a distance to entice him to move his response was to crawl one step and reach and reach and complain and reach and then, oh look, there’s a toy I can reach from here. Screw this crawling business, I’ll just play with that instead. No dice.

We picked him up at daycare one evening, and the providers tell us that AJ crawled! Only a tiny bit, and the key was to not look at him directly or he stopped. So I put him on the rug, put his favorite toys at a distance and pretended to study the cobwebs on the ceiling. After a bit of stopping and starting he did actually move a few feet – mind you, this was after the attempt where his arms went forward and his legs went backwards and he cried out in frustration a few times that he was putting in lots of effort but not getting anywhere.

Okay so the boy crawls, but not so much it’s a problem as he’s a short distance guy. Then we learn from daycare that he’s advanced to distance crawling and when appropriately motivated, he can get his speed on too. Apparently Matthew dropped a cracker across the room and AJ took off like a shot. That’s our boy: motivated by carbs.

Very Busy Month of July part 1? Accomplished.

Part 2 is brought to you by hair growth. As unexpected and flabbergasting as it may be, our boy has a full head of hair.  It took me two turns around the sun to cover my bald head, but he got some hair gene from someone (I’m guessing it’s Mike’s side of the family, ’cause I’m quite sure it ain’t mine!) He was starting to look a bit shaggy so we took him in to get his haircut. It actually went pretty well – our hairdresser has two kids, so she’s good at the rapid dive and snip from practicing on her own two.  Pictures from this momentous occasion can be found here: Jackson’s first haircut

Very Busy Month of July part 2? Accomplished.

The last part of the Very Busy month of July is brought to you by an over-active tooth fairy who really should take a chill pill. The boy has been rocking the two lower teeth look for quite some time now.  It’s cute, we like it, but we’re not sure it’s really going to translate well into adulthood. Well, worry no longer, AJ got teeth and he got teeth with a vengeance – 4 count them, 4 started coming in all at once. There was drooling, there was crying all night, and now, there are teeth!

Photos from this month can be found here: Action Jackson and the Wonderous July