Sorta crawling.... backwards

Over the last couple days he's been getting quite mobile. He's able to roll over and get into a crawling position quite easily now. He then tries to get to Interesting Object A in front of him, but to his dismay finds himself moving backwards. Eventually that puts him butt-and-legs first under the couch, from whence mom needs to go rescue him.

This morning he was rolling all over the floor in our bedroom, and found himself face to face with a wall, and didn't know what to do next. Thought it was pretty funny - maybe he found his own timeout location for the future? :)

I also saw him sit up by himself his morning - quite cool. Need to baby-proof the house this weekend - he's getting dangerously close to being a very mobile explorer.

Time to baby-proof the house

He isn't crawling yet, but looks like he'll be ready soon. Right now he tries to launch himself from a sitting position. Doesn't get too far, but he does make some slow-but-steady progress in the forward direction.

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Assorted Yo pics

Sleeping through the night!

Up until a couple days ago, Yo would wake up 2-4 times a night.  Susan would feed him, and then rock him back to sleep.  Lately he had been waking up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at around 3am, and wanted to play.  Nights could get rather tiring (for her, mostly).

We recently decided to see if we could 'help' our son sleep through the night, without waking up for food and games.  With great trepidation we approached our first trial night, as we had been thoroughly warned about lots of crying and wailing that we had to, by and large, ignore.

It's been three nights now, and by God's grace, it went pretty well!  Yo didn't cry all that much at all, and last night there was hardly any crying.  He went to bed between 7:30 and 8pm, and stirrred once at around 4am - tossed and turned for a bit, then went back to sleep.  It's 7:30am now, and he's still sleeping! Fantastic!

Susan still has to deal with his naps during the day, but this is a great milestone to get to!  Hopefully it will last.

Superboy

Yo has this lock of hair that's grown long in front, and that forms a natural Superman curl.