Gavin turns eight months old today - two thirds of a year! Before long I'll be planning his first birthday party, something that still seems as if it should be impossibly far away, but that is in fact just around the corner. He's now climbing the stairs so fast that if we turn out backs for two seconds he's over at the stairs and halfway up. Already he has fallen down them once (just a small flight - about four steps). He's taking more and more watching these days.
Gavin is also waving all the time. He also learned the sign for "dog" (rubbing forefinger and tumb together as if snapping), but now he has confused waving and the motion of the sign for dog, and holds his hand vertically like he is waving, but makes the "dog" motion. It's cute.
A couple weeks ago I bought some cheerios for him - he absolutely LOVES them. He loves being able to feed himself, and it didn't take more than a few days for him to get the pincer grasp down and get to where about 50% of them made it into his mouth. He'll also feed himself a chunk of banana now and then, though mostly he just smears it around. He'll also eat oatmeal pretty regularly. But that's about it. I can't get him to regularly consume much else.
NaNoWriMo is over now for another year. I won, reaching 50,000 with some ease, although the story is far from finished and needs much work. It seems that having a plot is still several stages away from knowing how to write by the plot! But I'm going to keep at it, because I think it has possibility.
Posted by allison at December 5, 2004 06:56 PM