{"id":15,"date":"2004-11-29T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-11-29T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:48:00","slug":"rollie-pollie-ollie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Rollie Pollie Ollie"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now have a rollie pollie ollie on our hands!  <\/span>He is a little Houdini and can get out of anything (swaddle blankets, bouncer chairs, bumbo chair???).  <\/span>I had to buy a bigger rug since he is rolling everywhere now.  <\/span>I had flashbacks of a couple of Christmas???s ago yesterday when Ty managed to roll under the tree and was trying to pull ornaments off.  <\/span>Tanner did the same thing at this age.  <\/span>As Tanner was born in May and Ty was supposed to be born in May, it makes it a little easier for me to judge Ty???s development.   <\/span>There are some developmental delays but they are not all that significant.  <\/span>Ty still won???t eat off a spoon and he can???t sit up.  <\/span>Ty is actually more advanced in his communicative skills though than Tanner was at this age.  <\/span>(Of course, Tanner still has some speech delays so that is not surprising).  <\/span>Maybe I shouldn???t say speech ???delay??? with Tanner.  <\/span>That may not be accurate.  <\/span>He doesn???t converse using as many words as many 3 year olds do but he isn???t suffering from it either<\/span>J<\/span><\/span>.  <\/span>All in their own time I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ty is continually moving in a forward motion though.  <\/span>Once he figured out how to roll both directions, he just took off.  <\/span>He loves this new found freedom.  <\/span>I think the Bumbo chair (I mentioned that in a previous posting) has done him good too.  <\/span>It has a low center of gravity so he has to work at it a little harder to sit up which strengthens his tummy.  <\/span>He can hold his weight sitting up if he puts his hands in front on the ground.  <\/span>This only lasts a few seconds but still it is progress!<\/span><\/p>\n

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He has also learned to ???pat??? and it is so precious.  <\/span>He is continually patting my hand when I hold him.  <\/span>Mommy is a patter so he must have learned the behavior from me.  <\/span>He is such a little copy cat and loves to mimic.  <\/span>He wants to talk so badly!  <\/span>He really watched our mouth and tries to imitate shape and sound.  <\/span>Lately he pretends to cough all the time just so I will cough back.  <\/span>He loves responsive communication.  <\/span>I bet he will be chatty chatty chatty once he figures out some words.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can you believe we are only about 6 weeks from his first birthday????? Wow!!!!  <\/span>This first year we may wait until May to celebrate it.  <\/span>In the future we will celebrate his birthday on the real date (January 17th<\/sup>) but this first year we may not.  <\/span>During this winter season, we may not want to do a big party (virus reasons) and he won???t be old enough to enjoy it anyhow.  <\/span>As a point of fact, most one year old children are not old enough to enjoy their birthdays either but at least they can eat their birthday cake and I don???t see Ty being quite ready for that in Jan.  <\/span>Haven???t made a final decision on this one yet.  <\/span>Jury is still out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why is it that as soon as you think you have a kid figured out they change?  <\/span>I had just determined that Ty liked vegetables and not fruits and then this week he switched teams.  <\/span>Now he is refusing vegetables but will eat fruits.  <\/span>Aaaaghhhh!!!  <\/span>The cereal bottle is still working though so I am at least grateful for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He learned to hold his own bottle though this week!  <\/span>Tanner learned that at 6 months and Ty is 6 months adjusted so he seems on target with his fine motor skills.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking of a change in behavior, last night Jim and I giggled when we saw Ty on his tummy in his crib eating the bumper pad ribbons.  <\/span>What is the big deal you say?  <\/span>All babies do that!  <\/span>Not if they have always been swaddled they don???t!  <\/span>Ty has learned that if he rolls from side to side he can work the swaddling loose and get his arms free.  <\/span>He was happy as could be free of his straight jacket and munching away on his bedding.  <\/span>Why do we bother swaddling still?  <\/span>Because Ty is still on an apnea monitor and a sat monitor at night.  <\/span>If he gets loose from the swaddling he starts eating his chords.  <\/span>Worse, he starts rolling over and gets chords wrapped around his body and sometimes his neck!  <\/span>Not good!  <\/span>He loves to be swaddled for sleep and if he wakes up during the night and unswaddles himself, he has trouble going back to sleep unless we reswaddle him.  <\/span>We will have to break this habit soon but swaddling is our best course of action while he is still on monitors.  <\/span>For right now, we just have to wait him out.  <\/span>Let him escape until we know he is sleepy and then redo it.  <\/span>I thought of a new thing to worry about yesterday though.  <\/span>We have just laid wood laminate down in Ty???s room.  <\/span>Eventually the crib will be moved in there.  <\/span>Tanner never attempted to crawl out of his crib but I feel pretty certain that Ty will.  <\/span>Imagining him crawling out of the crib and landing on his head on the wood laminate sends shivers down my spine.  <\/span>The trials and tribulations of motherhood???always something to occupy our imaginations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amanda, and her mom and grandparents came to visit Ty this week.  <\/span>They live about an hour away so between that and our lockdown, we haven???t seen them since September.  <\/span>I posted pictures in the Nov album if you want to check them out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We now have a rollie pollie ollie on our hands!  He is a little Houdini and can get out of anything (swaddle blankets, bouncer chairs, bumbo chair???).  I had to buy a bigger rug since he is rolling everywhere now.  I had flashbacks of a couple of Christmas???s ago yesterday when Ty managed to roll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}