22 weeks old & keeping me on my toes

It seems like ever since we've been home from vacation, Logan has made tremendous growth. He knows how to drink from a cup (but haven't given him one since we've been back). He unties shoelaces. He can sit up & play by himself. He likes to play the keyboard. He keeps trying to crawl by creeping. He rolled down the stairs & didn't cry much about it. He's ready to eat solids & really loves to eat. The new developments this week are growing curiosity & the beginning of sign language.

Logan has more interest in his toys now. He throws them to see what happens & he's starting to understand how to play with his interactive toys that sing & play games. He makes choices on what toys he wants to play with. I'll sit & play with him on the floor, bringing three or four different toys with. He'll play with one for a minute, then choose another. He rotates between all of them. It's pretty cute. He knows that I keep all of his toys in his toy box too. When he's rolling around on the floor, he'll often roll over to the toy box & try to pull it over. I'll sit him up in front of it & watch him dig through all of his treasures.

He's starting sign language, purely by accident. I've been meaning to sit down with him to teach him baby signs for quite sometime now. I've held off thinking that he's already learning so many new things, I didn't want to overwhelm him. It's suggested that parents start teaching their babies sign language between 6 & 9 months, so I wasn't too worried about holding off.

The other day while Bill & I were on the floor playing with him, he was on his stomach & started to pat the floor with his right hand. "He's telling you to come here", I jokingly said to Bill. This new action caught my attention & I watched him close when he did it. He really is telling us to "come here". It's the same motion I make when I call Kitty or Buddha over to play. I pat my leg or the floor & say "come here". Logan will make the same motion when he wants me or Bill to come over & he makes the same motion to his toys when he can't reach them. I was amazed & very proud of my little smarty pants.