Oh wow - under 6 months! How sweet!
My son loved to be upright at that age. Are 'jolly jumpers' still 'legal?' He used to be able to jump in time to us singing.
Ours was sort of like theses -
http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx...VADID=19153472012&OVKWID=59187093512but they hung from the molding over a doorway.
BTW - if you start making notes of the songs you sing now, you can get a good laught seeing how many years later your kid will still be able to sing it. File this under 'Stupid Gifted Kid tricks' I guess. Basically it's time for a news blackout, as they often store everything in memory, and use it against you later.
Smiles,
Grinity
I'll have to see if my DW wants to get one of those things!!!
At 3m0w we took him to Nordstroms and he was fascinated by the Piano player. He was wiggling to the music. Later, DW was 50 feet away in a group of women and he saw her and made his "wAAaah" noise for her. My wife sings to him all the time now - if you can imagine Belinda Carlisle belting out "boogie nights" with "wiggie" replacing "boogie".
I've got a picture on my desk of him at 5m0w standing by himself in the back seat of my wife's car facing the camera but with his eyes tracking something outside.
He hates to sit or to lay down. He refuses to be in his bouncy recliner and either wants to stand or be in his boppy seat.
In addition to the toy incident, his babysitter said that in just the three days she did not see him over the weekend he is totally different - he is looking at books, trying to walk, grabbing stuff, and being very vocal. She has done this for 30 years for some bright kids, but all she can say is she has seen nothing like it.
We has not slept than 11 hours in a day since he was 2 weeks old. Its becoming a real challenge to keep him occupied - he has to have someone playing with him now. He will not watch a Handy Manny show if he has seen it more than twice. He sits and lets me read the animal books to him. He looks at what I point at. He is a total flirt - women, mirrors, and cameras. He loves to look at other kids and seems to really enjoy smiling and resonating with kids 18mos-2 years.
My DW remarked last night that we were initially worried about her making it past 7 mos during her pregnancy with him and when he was born 5 weeks early, those extra few days after 7 mos were sweet victories - "But had he been born at term, he likely would have smiled and flirted with the nurse!!!"
I can well imagine it! I remember our kids in the Exersaucer.
