Army Crawl

Alex is a little over 7and a half months old now and he's been getting up on his hands and knees and showing signs of moving forward for weeks now. Well, on Sunday, he started doing this "army crawl" type of maneuver. If we put something inetersting (i.e. a flashing toythat moves or a cat!) at one side of the room, he drags himself across the floor to get it. He can moves on his knees but loses his hold on his hands, thus resulting in pulling himself along with his belly still on the ground. I am wondering though if we count any movement as crawling or have to wait for him to be on hands and knees. It's such a gray area. We want to fill in his baby book correctly and everything, but it's not as cut and dry as we thought it would be. We're still not sure if he's said his first word. He babbles "mamama" and "dadada", but it just seems like babble. One time he looked right at me and said "mama" and has done that a couple times since then, but who knows! He had a blast playing with his cousins at Weber's Farm in Parkville on Sunday. He had absolutely no reaction whatsoever to the slide or th hayride--just stared off into space, but we know he loved it! LOL.He'll be going to his first trick-or-treating on Sunday at my Grandma's house. I can't wait to see him in his costume, and can't wait to see if it still fits--we bought it a month ago when they were on sale! LOL. Some pics from the week:

Me feeding Alex his morning bottle..it takes him about 6 minutes to drink 6 ounces!

 

                                                        Our family picture at Weber's Farm

                              Me and Alex on the silde at Weber's--he looks enthralled, doesn't he???

Abe and Julia--can you believe how big she is getting?

                                            Abe, Alex, and Matthew smiling for the camera

Dylan and Matthew playing on the tires

                                  Dylan doing his GQ pose and Daniel playing the background

                                                             Daniel showing how tall he is

Alex is showing off his two front teeth!

Alex in our front yard--where are his socks you ask?...we have no idea!