Crawling... ish

So Aiden is officially able to scoot himself across the floor in a forward direction. I don’t know if it can officially be called a crawl yet, or if it still would be labeled a scoot since most of the time his tummy is still on the ground. He does sometimes get himself up in a real crawling position, so we are somewhere in between. Of course he still wants to use anything he is able to in order to get himself into a standing position, so it probably won’t be terribly long before we go from scoot to crawl straight to toddle.

He’s really starting to enjoy his solid food meal times. We tried Green Beans and he wasn’t so keen on that, and today we tried Carrots, which he ate, but mostly let dribble right back out onto his bib. Bananas seem to be an early favorite, he ate those up. His second meal of the day consists of Oatmeal Cereal that has been mixed with Apple Juice, again he really likes this concoction. Unfortunately, the added calories do not seem to be converting into added sleep.

Part of that problem is that the itchiness is back on his scalp. He’s been going to town the last couple of nights trying to scratch the back of his head. His ankles and wrists are also breaking out once again. Mommy called the doctor today and they don’t want to put him back on the DermaSmooth since it is a Steroid, she said we basically have to douse him in moisturizer as often as we can. So we will work on that and see how it goes.

So we have a grumpy sleeper, last night was about as rough as it has been of late. Nothing was going to settle him down. He ended up eating a bottle at 1, 3:30 and 8am. Not what mommy and daddy had hoped for. But we’ll keep trying and see if we can get him settled. When he does sleep he is starting to get used to being in his crib without the bouncer, so that is a positive. Problem is that he is still not ready to self sooth and we have to get him to the point where he is ALMOST asleep before we can put him down otherwise he will start crying almost instantly upon hitting the mattress.

During the day when he is up and about, he is laughing, exploring and generally having a good time. Today he went all the way from one side of the room to the other to get to his toy dump truck, it was pretty impressive. So while there are still issues with his skin and with the teething probably causing some pain as well, he is doing well when we can keep his mind on other things.