sitting up

Jonah is getting so great at sitting up. He's still a little shaky if he tries to lean for a toy or gets overly excited, but he can sit up for as long as he wants now. I'm still too nervous to walk away, but mostly just because I know he could really hurt himself if he fell over. I'm so proud of him.

And man, I cannot wait until I can just sit him down and walk away. It's frustrating for both of us that he can't do more on his own. Cognitively he wants to be crawling around and exploring, but physically, he just can't yet. And it really ticks him off and makes for a lot of whining. I feel sad that he can't crawl and move and manipulate toys like he wants to. When you are walking around with him now, he's constantly leaning over or trying to flip himself backwards to see what he wants to see and to go where he wants to go.

But he's working hard, and we'll get there. I think he'll be a lot happier when he can sit with more confidence. I don't know if he'll crawl (he's still showing no interest in pushing up much on his hands or knees) or just go straight to walking. Either way those things are a long way off and will lead to new problems and new padding/bandaging solutions. It makes me tired just thinking about it. :)

Today I just took the boppy with us to whichever room we were in so I could sit him down and let him do his own thing. It worked pretty well on the carpeted floors but he almost fell over on the hardwood because the boppy just slid with him. He did play a long time on the middle of our bed.

We went to Moe's tonight for dinner and Matt snapped this one right after we got home. This picture is deceptive though. Neither of us were in this good of a mood, especially not Jonah. He whined all the way to the restaurant, the whole time we were there, and all the way home. I think he was just overly tired, but I gave him some Motrin before bed just in case his teeth are bothering him.

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I started a Twitter account today. It's not to promote my blog or anything, but more of a way to give updates on Jonah in a more timely way. I feel like I need a way to say "Everything's okay, but I'm too tired to post." Also, it's nothing personal, but I'm not going to befriend blog friends on Facebook. I feel like I want that one thing to be "real life" friends and people I know from church etc. I hope I don't offend anyone, and I hope the Twitter thing will sort of replace that. Sorry. I don't know much about Twitter or how it works, but you can follow me here or see my latest few updates on my right sidebar.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. We have to take down the tree and all the decorations tomorrow. Because we celebrated a late Christmas with Matt's family, I haven't had the chance yet. I'm really dreading it. Ugh.