Mobility

Galen's been flirting with crawling for awhile now. He'll get on his hands and one knee. A few times he made it to all-fours, but promptly collapse - until yesterday.

In the afternoon, shortly after Shanna got home and delivered the afternoon supplement, she placed him on the floor. He was freshly nursed, napped, and was one happy dude. Problem was that Natasha wasn't in grabbing distance. So he reared up, and took several jerky "steps", and reached Natasha. Now that last shuffle was more properly a dive, he fell forward that last bit. But no matter, he shuffled & crawled for real.

I do have one cabinet secured with 1st Safety's Tot Lok. Very effective in my humble opinion. Time to get a few more secure - the ones with glass, sharp things, and bad chemicals (are there good ones?).

We don't have any dimensional updates; things such as length, weight and such. He next visit is in the third week of August. I'll post up then.

So far his favorite food seems to be a tossup between carrots and sweet potatoes. Peas are a big yuck. We've kept him to veggies so far, no fruit yet. He has tried to grab my beer, would that count as a fruit or veggie?

Goodbye Scotty

James (not a Scot) Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, has left us on the anniversary of man's first steps on the moon. Neil Armstrong may have said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" but it was Scotty that got the warp drive, transporter, and shields to protect the Enterprise & crew from certain destruction. Real people, like James, played fictional characters, like Montgomery Scott, that helped ignite and sustain our imaginations. And that helped to develop real heroes, like Neil, in our quest to visit outer space.

We need more of both. Thanks James.

Sitting, Reunions, and Tours

So, after sitting up once about two weeks ago, Galen finally sat up again yesterday - and again today!! This morning he was also trying something else new; he was sitting at the base of the recliner, holding on, and rolling forward on his feet. He didn't quite pull himself up, but he was trying. My grace period is very close to being over... I guess it's about time, in earnest, to get the house baby-proofed.

Last night we picked up Shanna from the airport, her return from a business trip. It's always a pleasure to see their mini reunions, to see them beam at each other

Are you watching the Tour de France? That is sport. That is human achievement. Go Lance, go.

Progress

Galen sat up - once, and has never done it again. And I didn't get to see it. So far it's been a fluke. One minute he was on his tummy and the next he was sitting up. He's sooo close to doing it again.

For the past week & a half he's been holding his own bottle. The past two months he's been trying, mostly his hands start moving around and he spins the bottle out of his mouth. Occasionally he'll pull it out, breath, squawk, whatever and place it back in his mouth. He usually misses and hits his nose, but then plops it right into place. This morning I placed him on the couch, plopped the bottle in, and walked away. He held the bottle it until it was empty.

He hasn't liked the peas. Sweet potatoes & carrots, yes. Peas, no. Too bad for him, we got more.