I can't believe that three weeks got away from me since I last posted. I have felt very busy lately, although there is not one particular reason for this. I will not attempt to "catch up" on what has gone on with Jonah for the past three weeks, but simply look at what is "normal" this week.
In the past week or so, he started making "motor noises" whenever he plays with something that has wheels. He has a number of trucks and cars that he makes the noise for, but he also does it with his highchair, because I would make that noise when pushing him from room to room in the chair. I never really thought about it, but clearly, Jonah has learned that is what you do when you move the highchair. So now when I start pushing it, he will start making the noise. He's such a boy!
Another cute activity that Jonah picked up from me rather quickly is one of his first encounters with the world of pretending. We've been keeping a sippy cup of water in his room so that we can offer it to him in the middle of the night when he is screaming, in case he might be thirsty. One night, when he was refusing to take the cup, I offered it to one of his stuffed animals instead and made a sucking noise, as if the animal were drinking. The next night, he took the cup and held it up to an animal's mouth. Soon after that, he started making the sucking noise himself. Now he likes to give water to all sorts of things, including tables and his highchair tray, always while making the noise. He learns so quickly!
Just this past week, something clicked in Jonah's brain about how to walk. He had been walking some, but not very confidently, and only with much encouragement. On Tuesday, I walked into his room and he was walking across the floor by himself. He seemed very proud. Later that day, he continued to become more bold, letting go of my mom's finger to walk across my parents' living room. Since then, he seems much more stable when walking. It has been almost two months since his first cautious step, but I think he's finally got it. (He also climbed up onto our futon for the first time this week, so I think his confidence is spilling over into other areas.)
Jonah is still not sleeping that well. I would have said that he is almost consistently napping for about an hour and a half every afternoon, but this past Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, he pretty much didn't nap. He's doing slightly better at night since I stopped breastfeeding him in the middle of the night when he would wake up. It still regularly takes half an hour to get him back to sleep when he wakes up, but it's typically only once a night. Hopefully it will get even better soon!
Today is Mother's Day, so it seems like I should at least mention that. This is my second Mother's Day, and it still feels weird when someone tells me "Happy Mother's Day." I'm guessing this is typical and it will eventually feel "normal." I spent 26 years saying "Happy Mother's Day" to other people, and to be on the receiving end of that for the past two years just takes some getting used to.
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