Developmental improvements at 5+ months

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Happy New Year everyone!

We went to a friend's house for New Year's Eve and we dressed Connor up in a collared shirt and these cute slacks from GAP that Daddy bought him. The slacks were a big hit! Unfortunately Connor fussed the entire time we were there - he just couldn't handle all the people and the noise I suppose, since we've been holed up at home with the snow. We went home by 9pm and were in bed at midnight. Such party animals, eh?

On January 1st we went out for New Year's dim sum with the family, and dressed Connor up again. He fussed again like the night before. SCREECHING at the top of his lungs. I can't imagine if we were on a plane, it would be so so horrible. We'll have to take him out more, to get him used to crowds, once the snow stops. Linds took him out of the restaurant to a nearby Shoppers Drug Mart and Connor was fine the entire time, so it must be the crowd and the noise.

Connor can sit up better every day (he's now 5 months and almost 3 weeks old)! The past couple of weeks Connor has shown major improvements with his cognitive abilities and motor skills. He seems to recognize his name (he turns toward you when his name is called), he is enjoying jumping in his Jolly Jumper, he is playing more with his toys with both hands. I observed him trying to control his hand to place a teething ring into his mouth. And he's trying hard with the consonants ("b"). He's able to spit out a "beh" on occasion (and I do mean spit - he's spraying it!). The only thing he doesn't do is roll over from back to front. Could be because he's such a chunky monkey (I read that somewhere, that chunky babies may have a harder time with that).

Tonight he even seemed to recognize the word NO! He was crying at dinner and I said NO very firmly a few times and he stopped crying and stared at me. This worked a couple of times and then he started wailing. He was hungry. Bad Mommy...

There's a good checklist of developmental checklist on Babyzone.

Here are Connor and Oscar sitting side by side.

My handsome guys!

Styling in his cool slacks!!

On a sour note, someone hit the rear of my car while it was parked (hit and run)!!! :( Not a good financial beginning to the year.