So I think Jack is beginning to develop object permanence. Tonight when he tried to grab his Cheerios, and then disappeared into his fist, he opened his hand back up to find them again. That plus his new habit of looking for things when they fall... no more "out of sight, out of mind" for this boy! Its exciting, but also a bit daunting that it'll be that much harder to fool him from now on.
The past few days Jack has been in love with our arms. He grabs our forearms when we have him on the changing table and hugs them and buries his face in them. It is very cute. Almost snuggly...
Also, in his bath tonight, Jack was interested in his bath toys for the first time, and turned himself around in the tub trying to get to the little green frog. He also enjoyed being squirted in the belly with the little squeezy whale.
And, he really got into playing patty cake tonight, grabbing my hands and laughing when I started clapping. He is beginning to be ticklish! He likes the part of patty cake where I tickle his belly on the word "oven".
The kid is really pretty darn cute. Melissa brought her 9 week old baby in to work today and she was so amazingly small and floppy... it was crazy to think that Jack was ever that little, that he was ever other than the big, sturdy baby he is today. I really like him at this age. Still little and squishy and all baby, all gerber baby in his porportions, but becoming an interesting person at the same time. I wish we could slow this time down. Or, perhaps I would wish that if he were sleeping through the night. (Sleep update-- we are still up 2-4x a night starting at midnight, but he is back to going to bed well. After 5 nights of screaming at bedtime, last Thursday) we tried the "pick-up, put-down" method recommended by Annie and after picking him up and putting him down 8 times he settled down, held onto my arm for a minute, then let me leave-- and since then he's been a calm happy boy at bedtime again. Its wild when something works that well....)
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