Ooopsie Daisy

In my opinion, learning to fall is one of life's important lessons. I want to make sure Dexter doesn't let fear of falling prevent him from reaching for what he wants.

Big Sloppy Wet Ones and Other New Means of Expression

Dexter loves to give big, open mouthed, drolly kisses on the face, especially after a bottle. He also loves to have a little face to face verbal "conversation" at these times. Sounds with consonants include ma, da, ba, ga, and pa. He's also continuing to explore his range of squeals, grunts, hums, and clicks. This week he has begun to clap his hands and, on occassion, will do it in response to someone else doing it and saying, "clap hands". When it comes to mobility, he wants to stand more than anything else and is getting pretty good at balancing on his feet. On the ground he continues to roll everywhere and, in the past couple of days, has shown promising signs of actually crawling - he can get his knees under him and stay on all fours but hasn't figured out that he can coordinate his arms and legs to move around. He either propels himself forward onto his face or straightens one leg putting weight on his foot and then ends up toppling over sideways. He still can't get himself to a sitting position when he's lying on the floor. He does some serious abdominal crunches but usually ends up raising his arms and squawking to be helped up.