It's the FINE things in life...

Lately, Amos hasn't been doing too much new as far as large motor skills go.  Although, we have had some up-on-all-fours rocking action going on, but we are still not mobile.  He's been more about fine tuning the skills he's got, and working on those fine motor skills, hence the title.

Check out this action.

For instance, he's been sitting unsupported for a while, but now he sways, does extended reaches, rocks back and forth, throws his legs up, falls onto his arm and pushes himself back up, all without falling over.  He still has his spills, but for the most part he's got his balancing moves down!

Also, his time spent on his tummy, is mostly going back between all-fours and upward dog!  He also has the eying-a-toy-and-rolling-to-get-it thing down too.

His eating skills are back - at least when he's eating vegetables.  He is NOT a fan of fruit.  He's had carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, corn, and peas and loved them.  He's had bananas, applesauce, and peaches and hated them.  We just keep trying them and I've been told they normally come around!  Let's hope.  Also, today, with the help of Sarah Corcoran, I have a months worth of baby food freezing in the fridge.  I sampled everything, and with a little bit of salt, I'd eat it.  Let's hope Amos feels the same way - minus the salt, of course!

While Sarah was over, MaKenna and Amos had fun playing together before going down for naps.  They wanted to hug, hold hands and "share" toys!  I see a lot of fun play dates in their future!

One thing I've noticed recently is that Amos is getting good at switching toys from one hand to the other.  I really don't know when he started doing this, but he does it all the time now.  Also, he's refound his hands. I guess I should clarify, he never lost them, he just has a new interest.  He stares at them and opens and closes them, then makes a fist, then does a backwards wave, and spins his wrists around like he's waving a flag and finishes with the yes symbol in sign language.  This can entertain him for quite sometime.

His other new fascination is tags on toys.  He doesn't care about the rest of the toy.  Just the white manufactures' tag that is sticky off the back.   He stares at it, and then gently pets it.  Oddly enough, he doesn't try to put it in his mouth.  He's content staring it down.

What I love is just how smiley he is.  If you've been following the blog, you know that up until the last month or so, his smiles took a lot of work to come by.  Now all I have to do is look at him and he smiles really big.  I may even get a squeal.  My new favorite thing is to put him down with some toys and sit down to read a book.  Occasionally I'll look up and get one of these!

Now that he is staying up longer (around 2 hours) we have lots of time to play together, and apart.  He's really good at playing by himself while I read or get something else done.