Wowie Zowie

Today was a day chalked FULL of new stuff for the J bean. He was with Oma and Opa for the morning, and he actually ate t-h-r-e-e- whole raspberries for them. He seems to be starting to develop a taste for them. Yesterday he ate a few bites of strawberry. He still makes these terrible faces like you’re feeding him something awful, but berries have been staying in recently.
So after nap I gave him some lunch. I tried banana by the forkfull, and that seemed to be popular (rather than letting him bit banana off). Out of habit, I said “J say Ba-na-na”. He says “na-na”!! I couldn’t believe it. I clapped and said “good boy” (something he now expects when he does something good) and he actually repeated na-na for me a few times! He also said “noodles”, but i couldn’t get him to repeat that. This was the first time he has used the “N” sound.
Well, after that we were off to therapy, where he stunnded me and the therapist again. He stood several times, for about 20 or MORE seconds at a time, standing with legs bent, and far apart, like you would if you were on a surf board for the first time. He was rock solid! I managed to keep him occupied with toys so that he didn’t cry at all. He also did walking with the therapist, she only held onto his pants. He wasn’t speedy at all, but he did walk across the room to me several times as I enticed him with several different musical instruments. He also spend some time going from standing to crouching, and back to standing with very little help (once with NO help!). I was blown away. WOW. What progress. Then I spilled the bubbles and sat in them, but still even with wet pants, I was so totally excited!

After we picked up R, we played outside with the neighbours. J was quite active, crawling from one side of the yard to the other and back. Even once we were inside he travelled from our eat in area to the living room many many times. He is getting so brave and adventerous! I am so very very proud.

Oh, and he cut the last eye tooth as well.