-He got his two top teeth and now has four total. When he first got his top teeth, he would grind his teeth all the time. The sound drove us crazy! But now he's used to them and doesn't do it anymore.
-He chews his tongue. Apparently this is genetic, because I have always been a major tongue chewer. Who knew it began so young! He sticks his tongue out the front of his mouth and just chews away all the time.
-He loved it when we were packing up and moving our stuff out of the Orem apartment. He would just go from box to box and try to climb on them, move them around, everything. One time Shenli caught him on top of one box and trying to swing his leg over onto another box to ride it like a horse. So hilarious.
-Now that we're in Texas (and a neighborhood where I don't fear for my life when going for a walk...), we bought a stroller to take Roy around. He LOVES it. And not just being in it for walks. He loves sitting on the ground inside the house playing with the wheels of the stroller. He can move it around the family room and he'll play spinning those stroller wheels for such a long time.
-I am back to work full-time (I was at 30 hrs in Orem) now that Roy can be contained without access to the kitchen and family room all from my "office". So in the new house, Roy gets the whole upstairs to play around in without getting into too much trouble! But what that does mean is he gets to entertain himself even longer while I work. He has a toy basket that he plays around with most of the day - it's amazing to see him just go, get a toy out, and play with it all by himself.
-But my favorite part about him playing at work is when he plays with my office desk. Because the printer is now at his eye level and he's learned to turn it on and off! It's so hilarious - he found which button makes the noise by turning it on, and then he tries to make copies before turning it back off to do the process again. He seems so smart nowadays! I'm sure he's no smarter than any other baby, but it makes my heart so happy to see him do things like this.
-While this house may be better for him playing around at work, it also has more dangers for sure! Or rather, we have to be more vigilant. One of the first days we were here, I let Roy play in the pantry while I made dinner, thinking it was totally safe. Well, it didn't take long for him to reach up for the glass jars and make one fall on top of him! It was empty and he didn't get hurt at all, but I think it scared him pretty bad when it shattered. And it scared me too! So the pantry is off limits at least until I baby proof it! We've also had to baby proof the outlets and of course the stairs.
-He now eats much more food than ever before! At our last doctor's appt, they said Roy was slightly anemic, but nothing to worry about. And he's been dropping percentiles each visit (now in about the .6%....yep) but still nothing to worry about. But one day it hit me - I bet other kids eat a ton more food now than just milk, and that's how they get bigger! (Duh.....). Up until now, I'd still just been feeding Roy some of our dinner each day, so not very much. But then I got up the courage to buy real baby food, and set us a rigorous schedule. He eats three times a day, just when I eat, and he eats some cereal, baby food, water, and part of our meals too. The baby food has made all the difference, and I hope it helps him grow big! I feel terrible having basically starved him for this long, but I feel slightly more confident now as he starts weaning from formula soon and gets all his nutrients from real food!
-Ever since we got to this house, Roy has only done real crawling. No more army crawl! I am so glad too. And he's also started a new trick - standing up by himself. He pulls up on anything nearby (I tend to be a favorite pull-up toy..haha) and then lets go and stands for a second or so. Now he's worked up to maybe 10 seconds max at times! He doesn't seem to want to take any steps yet while standing, but he loves the actual standing part. Soon this boy will be walking by himself - I can't believe it.
-Just one last thing that has started happening the last few weeks. When I'm working, or anytime Roy plays upstairs, sometimes he'll just disappear and be gone a long time. I finally peeked in at him one day and he was....reading! Or looking at books rather. He has a big stack of them in his room (we need a bookcase...I'm thinking the wall book display things from ikea!) and he just pulls out various books and turns the pages. It's SO adorable. I've started giving him a book in bed for naps and he loves that too. Hopefully this boy turns into a book lover!!
That's it! Here are some pictures this month. We didn't take very many compared to previous months...I need to get back on that! Hopefully with summer we'll have more swimming pictures and things.
