It seemed to me that Ian mastered both his sitting and crawling skills at the same time. Prior to this (6months – 7months old), he can sit up with little support, but he tends to just lie on his back from sitting position because he never get knocked on his head as we always let him frolic around on the bed. So he has acquired that habit. Now am trying to slowly teach him that he cannot do that when he is sitting. In order to lie down, he needs to use his hand to lower himself first.

As for his crawling skills, before this, he crawls with his legs, and slides forward with his head on the bed instead of using his hands to inch forward. He looked really funny, just like a tractor when he does that. With his butt high up in the air and his face splattered on the bed. Hubby taught him how to use his hands and he is a fast learner, because he is already doing that. That kid now climbs all over pillows and me! I can no longer use my body to block him anymore because he will just crawl right all over me to get to his point of interest, which is the door of the room. I think by now he had forgotten the trauma of falling from the bed because he had no qualms about diving head down first. =.=

Lately, he seemed to sleep later than usual. So each time when we were playing on the bed, he never gets tired. He will always make attempts to crawl towards the door of the room, while I will always try to block him off. Whenever he reaches me and crawled over me, I will carry him up and put him right at the furthest corner and he will just start all over again. Both of us will repeat this process for god knows how long, until one of us eventually tires out. After he gets exhausted of doing the same thing repetitively, he will just lie on the bed and play with his smelly bolster instead. And then he starts to ramble. Yesterday, it was “da-da-dei or da dei”, something along the syllable. So he yaks and yaks and finally when he gets frustrated that nobody is paying any attention to him, he sometimes starts to yell or said “huh” just so to get your attention. I pretended to be asleep.

Up until a point he stops his baby talks and starts to roll around, putting his hand in the air to feel his surroundings. And then I fell asleep. I think he did too because when I woke up later on as hubby came in to check on us, Ian was fast asleep.

That little guy has a bundle of energy from god knows where. Hehee..

But I love to play with him. When I greeted him good morning, or good evening, or just telling him I love him, he always grins or sometimes laughs. He is a happy child, whatever funny sound I make triggers him into a laughing spree. And he likes to play hide and seek. Each time it won’t fail to make him laugh.

Yesterday we put him in his high chair while hubby and I was having our dinner, and he keeps leaning towards us, asking us to carry him. And we pretended to ignore him. Consequently, he went “uh.. uh”, just grunting, calling to us. It is his way of attracting our attention. Then he started to chew although there’s nothing in his mouth and swallows his saliva. It was really funny to watch. Pitiful too because I can’t let him yet those food yet. hehee..

Next time my boy, when you are older.

But lately he has been picky, always not finishing his milk. It was heartache on my side dumping the unfinished milk that I had painstakingly expressed for him. He has this bad habit of always leaving 1 oz of milk in his bottle and refuses to drink after that. Hmmph!

Sometimes it is tricky when trying to put Ian to sleep at night.  He sometimes has a surge of adrenaline that I have no idea comes from where, and just refuses to sleep and keeps rolling around. Last night, after having dinner, hubby tried to put him to sleep because Ian looks flattened out while I finished up my portion of the dinner and washed the dishes. By the time I am done, I went into the room to check on him. and guess what, hubby was on the bed looking so defeated and yet our boy was still frolicking around on the bed. When he saw he, he just lighten up and tried to crawled over. hubby told me he tried countless times to cuddle him and sing him to sleep but Ian continued to be alert.

I told him lately I tried not to cuddle him to sleep anymore, preferably letting him roll around until he got tired and falls asleep. But most of the time he got cranky instead and I had to cuddle him to sleep. Haha!

Yesterday I told hubby I will take over from him, so he went out to do his stuff while I stayed in with Ian. At first I let him played around a little longer, and after awhile he started to get fussy so I cuddled him and sang to him. but boy was he alert right after that! As I walked to and fro in the room singing, his eyes just can’t stop taking in the sights. He doesn’t look sleepy at all!

So I put him down on the bed again, and after awhile repeated the while ritual.  And he still refused to sleep. So I let him roll around in the bed some more, and I can feel my own sleepiness creeping in. The last thing I remembered was Ian still rolling around on the bed when hubby came into the room and woke me up. And I found Ian curled up on my side sleeping peacefully with his bolster in his face. I took away his bolster, placed my arm around his back and continued sleeping happily.

Oh ya, did I mention the little guy had a really funny habit of always using his hand to feel things around him when he is half asleep? He will be semi conscious, and closing his eyes, but his hand will be up in the air feeling the bed, bolster and basically just the air before he finally settles down into a deep slumber. Hubby and I find that amusing and really funny to watch, it is as if he must touch everything and make sure it is his before he dozes off. I must take a video of this one of these days as memory.