6 Months to 12 Months, January '05

OMG.... I am PML.. I just walked in to check on Aidyn, he is sleeping on our bed with DP, and I hear this snoring coming from the bed, and I think 'typical Jackson, goes to bed drunk and snores all night!' but when I moved closer I realised it was coming from my little man!! Sooooooo cute!! I should've realised in the first place cause it wasnt as loud as DP's, but then I have never heard Aidyn snore like that. He is there lying on his belly with his arms splayed out, snoring his little head off... its moments like these that I love him so, so much that I just want to laugh and cry and wake him to give him a big cuddle :D :D

You are amazing Christy!! I dont know how you manage to go for early morning walks, as well as make a truckload of baby food, as well as clean the house - all on so little sleep!! What a trooper!! You put me to shame!! (Dont tell my DP how much you manage to get done, ok? ;) )

Thats soooo cute Ambah!! How gorgeous... yep its definately moments like those where I melt & just want to kiss her... this morning she was in the playpen happily playing & I was watching her & she kept putting her head down like she was going to sleep... now this child NEVER just puts her head down, so even though she wasn't showing any tired signs beyond that I picked her up & just cuddled her on the rocking chair and she fell to sleep in around 30 seconds :shock: ...hmmmm... she's been asleep for 30 minutes now...YAY! Just that the past two weeks with the whole changing routines thing, its taken ages to get her to sleep, she'll start screaming even while I'm holding her & just cries for like 40 minutes before she finally collapses and sleeps... which is emotionally draining for me, and today an hour or so early she just went to sleep... magic!

Today is our first swimming lesson! Off to the big pool for a free orientation class to see how she goes... She loves the water so I thought I'd better get her in there because she loves to stick her head under ](*,) and I'll feel better if we both know what to do... even in the bath with like 5cm of water she'll stick her face in it.

5 hours of sleep last night & I have to leave Matilda with a neighbour later this arvo so I can go to work as they are a bit desperate... yuck.
She'll be there for an hour & a half before DH gets home, but scary still...

I don't know how you do it either Christy. My house was a brothel the other night and I said to Andrew I know I am slack and apologised for not keeping the house a bit tidier and spending all my time on the computer LMAO 8-[ Got to get a bit of organisation back into my life because he will go back to work Monday, and from Tuesday I am back into working from home as well.
But at least over the last 4 weeks he has seen how much crap the kids can cause so may not harp on about it so much. This was his first holiday with both kids on the go.

Lachlan ate roast dinner last night. Did him peas, corn, roast spud and lamb and blended it all up and put it into a breakfast bowl, it was half full and thick and he ate the lot !!

Love

Ambah that is SO cute, when ever Lachie ends up asleep with Felix I always get the camera out, the he looks at the photos later, and wonders when I took them! LOL @ the snoring, Felix used to be really noisey on his back but now sleeps on his tummy, I used to wake up and hear DP on one side and Felix on the other..kind of hard to go to sleep!!

Christy that is AMAZING with the sleeping! fantastic that things might be changing in her sleeping patterns of late!! I can't beleive she puts her face right into the waterin the bath, I think she's going to be one hell of a woman, SO adventerous. I think her sleep promblms seem to be because she just can't stop squeezing every drop out of life! How wonderful! Of course being a mother to a child this would be downright exhausting! I too can't believe how you maintain the energy! Good luck at the swimming lessons sounds like she's a natural!

Kathryn I can totally relate to the less housework and too much time on the computer, DP commented on the same the other day 8-[ I now manage to get things done AND turn it off for a little while insetad of leaving it on while I check back.

Ambah I made some of that custard from those receipes, instead of the apple I used mashed banana, but I got distarcted and I think it was there too long or it wasn't stired properly, because it was lumpy, but It was very yummy, I tasted it! Unfortunately not the texture Felix likes! Though He ate 2 meals of avo, yougurt and flaxseed yesterday and NO tinned egg custard all day! This morning he ate a decent amout of farex too! he ate SO well when we were with my mother group, he watched the babies eating and it worked SO well! I put the DVD on thsi morning whie he ate and it worked again! I hope we don't have to do it for the rest of his life!

Sorry Katanya I have to remove your image, as images within posts are not allowed as it states in the forum guidelines

Love

Matilda just had her first ride on a skateboard! LMAO! She was playing with our skateboards & was loving the wheels so I put them on the ground properly so she wouldn't knock them over on her head and she pushed herself along with her top half on the skateboard & her bottom half pushing LMAO!! Too funny, oh DH is going to be bursting with pride at having his daughter skate...thats part of what attracted us to each other...

btw DH got home last night & said, I swear everyday Matilda has a new bruise on her head or lump... what can I say?? She is adventurous & things happen? She never cries when she bumps her head and sometimes I don't even know its happened, I mean she's in the play pen and I'm within 2 metres from her in the kitchen and can see her & I pick her up & she's got a lump... oh well she heals quickly at least... so I felt like a bad mum for a few minutes...lol until she tried to jump out of his arms & he had a hard time holding onto her saying how strong she was. 8-[

ok marathon post here :D btw remember I don't always clean, I still have someone come once a month to help me out...LOL not everyone gets that luxury... she's coming today and I had to get the washing done beforehand, because once she's finished I get to put my feet up for a few days...LOL... or just not feel so bad about the state of Matilda's clothes from crawling on a very dirty floor...

Don't you love the state the clothes get in LMAO. I said to Lachlan "hurry up and crawl properly will you" cause from his chest to his feet are disgusting no matter how often i mop LOL. Got to love Preen :D

Love

so over mopping too Kathryn!!

Liam and Cairenn are feral eaters. Could mop/vac 2 times a day with no luck!

So over crunchies on the floor :smt102

Yeah I think a stone or something must have come inside from the shoes, Lachlan was next to me (I am in barefeet and haven't been outside yet) and he was laying on his back. I looked down and he was choking OMG scary especially how quiet it was iykwim, so I threw him upside down and hit his back and he spat it up *phew*

I was having visions of Aidyn turning blue, but he is okay now and is sleeping after the dilemma.

love

OMG!!

Glad he is ok - how are you mummy? Bet you got more of a fright.

HUGS!

Yeah I am okay but it does make you think about doing a first aid course or something when that happens, cause it was racing thru my head thinking what if it doesn't come out.

Love

Woah!!! What a busy day we're having in here!! :)

OMG Kathryn, that is awful!! I'm so glad he is ok!!! I know exactly how you feel, it is quite a shock when something like that happens and you realise how easily it can occur... Funny you should say about the First Aid courses... I passes my St John ambulance advance course 3 years ago... but I cannot remember what to do for choking (or anything else for that matter! 8-[ ) I will look it up in my first aid book and post it here if you are interested...

Christy - I hope you guys have a great swimming lesson!! How much does it cost, may I ask? I wonder if it is too late to enrol Aidyn for this summer...?
That is so sweet how she fell asleep in your arms, and how cute is that - seeing her skate along!! LOL She is such an amazing energetic little girl!! :D

Katanya - that is great that the DVD of the other kids eating works so well! Its such a fantastic idea!
I'm sure with time he will get to like the custard... just has to get used to that texture... sounds like something Aidyn would love, I must make some for him as a treat, but I need to buy some full fat milk first, we only have Trim in our fridge usually.

We had another shocker night lastnight... I finally fell asleep by 1am... and what do you know, half an hour later Aidyn waked up crying because he is caught up against his cot bars and cant roll over, so I move him back, but the second I leave the room he starts screaming. So I brang him to bed with us and he proceeds to spend at least the next 3 hours chirping and waving his arms around, smacking us etc, but every time I move him to his cot he screams #-o !! He seemed to be so excited when he was in our bed because of the tiny green light on our aircon unit... dunno why, he has never noticed it before... but boy was he going off about it too!! LOL... it makes me laugh now but last night was a different story, I swear every foul word in existence came out of my mouth! So now today I have one of those 'heavy brain' feeling headaches that comes from having no sleep...

LMAO @ Aidyn going off at the light. i did that once with Lachlan bringing him into our bed during the night and in the first 5 mins I was saying "never again" We have a beanbag so that went into his room and when he woke up I would lay in that with him till he fell back to sleep.

Maybe posting the first aid thing might be a good idea, or even discuss with Kelly about making it a sticky in the General Baby/Toddler discussion forum so it is at hand for everyone to see iykwim.

Love

wow what a busy day!! What a relief that Lachlan was okay! How scary!

We had a great swimming lesson, and the first one was free. You have to pay to join blocks, so a two month block is around 100... which I think is too steep, but Dh & I think it will be good for her to have something to wear her out with LOL...

She had an absolute blast...the only baby there that wasn't clinging to her mummy... or daddy as it was. And she just pushed me away like go away I can do this on my own..LMAO! The instructor just looked at her & said I bet you are exhausted...LOL... We weren't supposed to let their heads go under but the first thing Matilda did was bend over & put her face underwater! & came out laughing! :)

LMAO Christy. What a clever girl you are Matilda !!!

Well I walked into the lounge room today to catch Lachlan on his feet. He had his hands in his rocker and his feet flat on the floor with his bum in the air. Then his feet started to slide out from underneath him and I caught him LOL.

I said "you can just stop that right now, I refuse to have you walking by the age of 1" and he just laughed.

Love

oh thats scary!! Yesterday Matilda pulled herself up to kneeling & I freaked out saying NO WAY... NO OPTIONS, JUST NO!!! LOL... hasn't done it again... hopefully I've scared that out of her for a while ;)

LMAO Christy we have done kneeling for about a week now. or maybe less than that. I took a pic on my phone and sent it to Ambah when he did it LMAO.

Love

Hi everyone! :D

I'm finally back in action after the move! I just got through catching up on all your posts since I was gone but there's just far too much for me to be able reply to, except I did just want to say...

CONGRATULATIONS KATANYA! What fantastic news! Your ideas for the wedding sound wonderful. And I can't believe how little some of you spent on your weddings and how beautiful they sounded. So many clever and creative women here! ITA with you about it not mattering whether you're married or not when you have babies. When I found out I was pg with Adara in August '03 (my 1st surprise baby) I was engaged (since valentines day) but wasn't planning on marrying until Nov '04. We got married a year earlier only b/c I decided it would be easier not to have a baby with us on our honeymoon and I was too vain to have a post-baby-body at my wedding LOL! I was astounded at how many 'shot gun wedding' comments I got... I can't believe that some ppl still think in that way in this day and age!!!! Ridiculous.

Speaking about weddings, I finally got my wedding album just before NYE yay!!! \:D/ I found out that it was actually done a while before then but as our photos are so good, he was using our album to get new clients!!!! Sooo shifty! Now just need to work out a way to get the montage and enlargements done sometime soon #-o

Moving house was actually a lot easier and quicker than I thought, although Adara was a bit of a handful at first. She got a shocking ear infection the day we moved, was still teething really badly and HATED the new house, so she was really difficult for the first 5 or 6 days. She's the sort of baby that will still be happy and laughing regardless of how sick she is but I guess in a strange place she found it harder. We had to go back to the old house a couple of times after the move and as soon as I pulled up she was kicking her legs and squealling with happiness. I actually cried when we left for the last time as we'd been in that house for years and years and they were the best years of our lives. When we got back to the new place, Adara was back to being grumpy and Andrew and I decided we'd done the wrong thing and should just go 'home'! Now we're all settled and we all love our new home, it's so much bigger and nicer it's hard to believe we had such a hard time adjusting!

I'm up late tonight as Andrew's gone out for his birthday on Monday (he's turning 32 and decided to celebrate by going clubbing of all things!) and even though I'm exhausted, I can't sleep with him next to me. Stupid, I know!

Sorry, I'm still a mega rambler!!! Been a long time btn posts!

Take care everyone,
Mel

Wow it has been so busy here and so much has happened!

Firstly Kathryn that must have scared the hell out of you with Lachlan Choking!! I think a first aid course is wise, just one thing to remember with all the resucitation and CPR on babies is you only have to do the chest pushes with 2 fingers and short breaths etc..I have heard of some AWFUL stories of parents OVER pressurising the chest, i don't think I need to say more. It is a good idea to put up the info, but be aware that the info should be EXACTLY what is writen in a first aid book and quoted etc because Belly Belly could get themselves in hot water over someone following the info and the wrong result. Sorry to be negative but I came across this when preparing info for the vacation care I used to run!
(also sorry about the pic, won't happen again ;) )

Christy Your girl is just AMAZING! Skater parents huh? might explain where the adventurous spirit comes from ;) The swimming lessons sound fantastic, but that is quite expensive, some of the mothers from my mothers group are think of starting their babies, and I have taken Felix several times this week, and he absolutely LOVES the water now (doesn't put his face into it though!)
I love the image of Matilda pushing you out of the way and dunking her head under..what a girl!

To all those babies pulling themselves up to walk..HOLD ON NOW..you'll spend the rest of your lives doing it why rush?

Hey Mel, sounds like you have been really busy no wonder you haven't been in here! I am glad you are enjoying your new home now, though leaving the old one sounded hard! Glad Adara has finally got to like it, amazing how attached they are at this age to their surroundings.
Thanks for the congratulations about the wedding, IKWYM about having a baby at the honeymoon, we are planning one night in a hotel up the mountain, and I'm hoping to get Felix to the satge where he can perhaps be minded for the night, he'll be 19 mths old by then.

Well I was up at 4:30 am this morning as the girl I work with on weekends decided to get up with the birds, unfortunately I stayed up watching a flim on TV last night..so didn't get much sleep..oh well bed early tonight!

Hi Girls

I have created a listing that has all of your baby's first's on it ie first smile, first laugh, first tooth etc etc.

If you want to check it out and start adding your babies details reply to the thread it can be found HERE

I will be deleting the posts as I edit them into the first post to keep the thread short, so if you need something else included just leave a post asking to have an age included against something (ie Kathryn can you put 7mth 4 days down for crawling normally.)

If you have older children feel free to add them into the listing as well.

Love

WOW Christy!! Thats awesome that Matilda loved the swimming so much!! and OMG @ pulling herself up!! :shock:
BTW, have you recieved the PM I sent you a few days ago??

Katanya - I actually typed out a thread with first aid info taken directly and word for word from my First Aid book (before you wrote your post here)... just the EAR, CPR and choking procedures. I'm quite sure I havent made any mistakes, but if you see something on there that is wrong, please let me know. I was intending it to be moreso for ppl to read through and refresh in there mind what they need to basically do in an emergency situation. As even though I passed my first aid course I couldnt for the life of me remember what to do for choking, but now after reading it I'm quite sure I wont forget...

Welcome back Mel!! Yay for finally getting your wedding photo album!! \:D/ Thats great to hear that you have settled in and are loving your new house, it sounds like it was really rough with Adara getting used to it... but I'll bet it is all worth it in the end! What a relief for you, I hope you get some time to relax now!!
BTW, IKWYM Mel, I cant sleep without my DP next to me either... :-k

Well, I myself have had a cleaning frenzy of a weekend... I'm quite proud of myself, especially as we have had sweltering heat which is NO fun to clean in! Aidyn had a good night lasnight and stayed in his bed until 5.30 and then came into ours and slept in until 8.30am, woohoo!!!
He is still not crawling, not even commando crawling, but from what everyone else says about their own bubs crawling, I am quite happy for him to take his sweet old time ;)

Ambah I'm sure if you have done the instructions word for word and used quotations it will be fine, you might want to write something on there about "this info is for refreshing information already gained at a first aid course, and not intended as a teaching guide" or something like that (I haven't looked you may have already done it!) You can't be too careful nowdays, if someone looked at that info and followed it without the training given at first aid courses, it may turn out disasterously IYKWIM? It sounds paranoid I know but this is the world we live in now.

Don't worry Ambah Felix isn't crawling yet either, although he can creep towards desired objects, and he CAN climb me and out of his bath 8-[ I have this starnge feeling he's just going to pull himself up one day and walk before crawling!

Hi girls... its been so hot here, thats right QLD finally got it, and our room with our computer is the only one that doesn't get air con, so I've been avoiding it LOL...

Matilda is an amazing girl, I've finally come to terms with her active nature and the last two days I've encouraged her to be active and done really active play times, and she sleeps heaps better afterwards, so maybe thats what we have to do :-k . DH & I had her "walking" up & down the hall towards eachother & she was cacking herself, and then we used the fit ball & rolled her around so she would pick up the toys and then pull her back so she was standing & holding on to the ball & she loves that too... so we're finding more physical things for her to do... skating is still one of her favs though.... DH loves it :)

Mel thats great news on the wedding album & that the move went well!!

katanya & Ambah - I'm jealous of your boys... I would love to have a snuggly boy...one that isn't so hurry to move all the time...

Kathryn... so how long did Lachie kneel pre-standing? Is he holding onto things & walking yet? That would be sooooo scary!!!

Hiya Christy.

YAY at finally finding stuff to wear Matilda out lol. Lachlan got up onto his feet within a week of him kneeling. He isn't grabbing hold of the coffee table yet to do it, just low lying stuff like his rocker etc. So that means he hasn't stood straight up while holding on yet only with his feet on the floor and bum in the air, but if you place him at something standing up he will stand there holding on. This makes it easier to undress him when getting ready for the bath lol cause i stand him up outside of the tub and make him hold on while i pull his clothes off.

So definitely no cruising furnitue atm.

Love

Hope everyone is okay, it's been so hot today here(can relate to the not wanting to be on the computer Christy!) thankful a storm hit around early afternoon and cooled us down!

Well looks like felix is joining Lachlan and Matilda in the pulling himself up onto things, he has been practicing all day! And this is efore he has even learnt how to crawl properly, he rolls and creeps! he has this thing with holding my hands and pulling himslef into sitting position then gets his legs under himself and pushing up into a standing postion. Also has been riding on a car someone gave him and so he has been kneeling and trying to pull himself up into standing on that, he can get just past kneeling! Oh boy, this happened a bit sooner than expected!

Felix had his pneumococcal needle today went well apart from when it went in, cried and dropped his bottom lip at the nurse afterwards.. Got to update my GP about the investigation about his breathing, she was a bit upset the Paed hadn't forwarded his investigations to her, and she is very interested in what is going one with him. She was very supportive about the way I am feeding him (breastfeeding before food) which is contrictory to what the paed said, but in the reseach I have done everything says BM is more important at this age, higher in fat etc and that solids should be additive to this not replace it.

Felix has been eating SO well this week and BFing well too, I am hoping that we will have a big gain this week.. his breathing isn't so good, I don't know whether I'm more aware of it but he seems to really labour while BFing..he sweats away and is very loud while feeding..I can imagine it's using up a lot of energy!

katanya... Matilda sometimes does a wheezing noise when feeding, I never thought about it before...hmmmm

yep the storm did help heaps but as we had massive lightening & thunder here I wasn't game to turn computer on as our neighbours lost theirs in the last storm, I couldn't live without ours! LOL! Kat I keep thinking of you during our big storms...LOL

well.... today is a home day so I've got to find some activities for Matilda... she was on the fit ball last night & tried to stand on top of it #-o gotta hold on tightly to her otherwise she'll be off! I might have to take her to the neighbours for a play with the big kids...

Ambah sorry I did get your msg & I just haven't respoded yet as I was trying to get the car of DH... I'll PM you next!! I promise!! Sorry!

ok off to peruse the rest of the forums now... LOL should only take an hour or so :D

LMAO at your storm Christy. I had another storm chaser friend on MSN yesterday and he kept showing my brisbanes weather radar lol

I am back into work from home again now, although have done really well this morning and pushed out 200. Just 845 to go LMAO, so i should get back into it !!

Love

Wow so muich happens so quickly ... I don't think I can do personals but please know I have read all your posts :)

Asha is 7 months old today!!!! It has gone so quickly. The other news is that this morning Asha got up on all fours!!! For a few weeks she has done arms or knees but not together and this morning she did it!!! Not long and my baby girl will be off and racing!

Better go ... am off to lunch today.

Cheers

wow thats great about Asha Kelly! She's a star... you must be so busy atm... when are you going back to work?

Woohoo to Asha !!!!!! and yay on being 7mths. It all goes too quickly doesn't it.

Love

Woohoo Asha on the crawling!! and congratulations on turning 7 mths~~!

Felix started comando crawling, well sort of caterpillar crawling actually 8-[ I think it's all hard going for now on! I took a few pics of him..here is a link to them:
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANmzVqzaMmzDmA

Unfortunately his motivation was the TV remote..shows what his motivations are!

Christy: What is the wheezing noise like? Felix's is more like a grunt, like the monica seles grunt you know like he' exerting energy..maybe it just normal I don't know?

Not really understanding what a storm chaser is girls, but is it some one who follows a storm?? Why?

Felix turned 8 mths on the weekend, somebody gave a us a second hand toy car and we put him on it, and as you can see in the photos he ascolutely LOVED it!
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANmzVqzaMmzDdg

Hi Katanya

Yep a storm chaser is just that someone that chases storms. We are a part of a severe weather association so we get out there and document and record storms, and is heavily into Lightning photography as well.

Gorgeous photos :D

Love

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a storm chaser is just that someone that chases storms. We are a part of a severe weather association so we get out there and document and record storms, and is heavily into Lightning photography as well.

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AHHH!! makes sense now, are you one?

Yep I am Katanya. I was the State Rep for our association till last week when I quit as I just don't have time for all the committee stuff atm with both the boys on the go and my BB addiction LMAO, so have just gone back to being a normal member.

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AHH explains why there is a storm in your avatar #-o

Hi to all Mums out there,
I have only just joined so will quickly intro myself.
My name is Brooke and I am mummy to 8 mth Amilia and am currently
TTC #2.
Lots of people have said to wait but Millie is very full on -crawling since 6 mths and now trying to walk, so kind of figure it can't get too much more chaotic. Will read some past pages and try to catch up with who everyone is .
Brooke

Hey Brooke

Yay at joining us !!!!!!!!! Great to have you hear. Look forward to getting ot know you better

Love

Welcome Brooke!! Can't wait to hear more about Amilia!! My son Aidyn is 8 months too (well, 8 & a half ;) ) Looking forward to chatting with you some more!

Katanya - those are gorgeous piccies!! He looks like he is really loving that car!! And WELL DONE Felix on the crawling!!! =D>
Just thought I would mention something you may or may not be interested in... I have been buying a few jars of this 'creamy rice pudding' it is the 'Only Organic' brand, and I was looking at the nutirional information on the back today and it seems to contain a fair bit more Fat and Kilojoules than the custards! I have been mixing it up with mashed banana for Aidyn but now that I know how fatty it is I might give it a miss, as I think it has been contributing to Aidyns chubbier cheeks of late. Btw, it tastes so bland when plain, so it is best to mix with fruit or something, then it tastes great! Just thought I would mention it anyway.

Christy - Matilda is such an amazing little girl!! Sounds like you are all having a lot of fun! :)

Happy 7 months Asha, and well done!!!

ARGH!! My baby is soon going to be the only one not crawling, and he is one of the oldest... 8-[
I am going to see a CHN tomorrow, so I will see what she says, but I seriously think it is because he is so heavy...

Aidyn has also been really sweet this past week, giving lots of kisses to me!! I will say 'kiss kiss!' and he will smooch my cheek.. not with puckered lips yet, but with his tongue half out, LOL. It is very sloppy but it is soooooo sweet!! :D

Hi Brooke a HUGE warm welcome to you and Amilia!! :smt039
Good luck with trying to conceive #2, if you feel ready, I think you are wise in ignoring the advice, there are a few girls with babies similar ages in here and are pregnant too! I am waiting till ened of the year (Felix is 8 mths too) only because I am selfish and want one toilet trained before I have another! From what I have seen every age gap has it's +'s and -'S

Ambah don't worry about the crawling, some babies don't crawl until they are 18 mths old! It just depends on how keen they are to get around I guess and individual personalities? I don't think it would be to do with his weight. Believe me puting him down and going to the kitchen to find him across the room chewing on my DP's belt is quite alarming, I have finally put the plug protectors I bough ages ago in the power sockets! and take up at electrical cords when I found him tugging and chewing on the fan cord.

that is SO cute with the kisses I still get the open mouthed sloppy kind..
Thanks for the rice pudding idea, I have been looking for more high calorie foods, he has been eating SO well all week and the yesterday and hardly ate a thing! I don't know whether he was sick of the food he was offered or just not hungry? ](*,) Maybe it's because he's learnt something new?
Anyhow got to get back to my caterpillar!

Well I got back from seeing the CHN this morning, and she said Aidyn is doing just fine. He is in the top 96% for his length (76.5cm) and 97% for his weight (10.8kg). That means he has put on less than 1kg in the past 2.5 months, which is great cause it means his weight gain is finally plateuing out.
She said not to be concerned about his crawling, he will get there in his own time, when his thigh muscles are developed enough to carry his heavy weight, she thinks it will be another month or so...

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that yesterday he clapped his hands for the first time, and he can also sit up by himself now from a complete lying down position!