We are very excited having our little sunshine, Francis. He brings so much joy! His laugh is contagious, his big smile lights our days and his gorgeous eyes allow us to see, life is precious. We are very proud of him and his accomplishment in a short period of time. Having an older bother helps him to figure things out faster, but Francis and his big bother didn't spend much time together during Francis's first 10-month. Tommy was at school in the mornings and extended care in the afternoons, so Francis was at the house waiting for his big bother to come home in the evenings. Many of Francis' advanced accomplishment has been because it is the way he is and having bigger people around him helps to boost his development even faster. Tommy won't be at extended care anymore, so we are very excited that the boys will spend more time together. I am excited to watch how much they will learn from each other.
Francis' 8-month milestones:
- To feed himself finger food with the pincer grasp
- To drink from straw cup without assistance and place cup back in the tray.
- To drink independently from his bottle
- Began to help mom with taking his shirt and pants off
- To place objects into containers
- To put the shapes of a triangle, circle and square in the right opening.
- To actively play pat a cake, pick-a-booh, so big and uncovering hidden toys.
- To imitate adults or older kids.
- To push a toy
- To cruise while holding onto a furniture
- To stands alone without holding a furniture
- To pick objects from a standing position without putting his hands on the floor for support
- To transfer from furniture to a near furniture
- To walk short distance with one hand supported
- To understand simple instructions, such as: turn the light up or off while mom hold him, take your shirt or pants off.
- To babbling more speech sounds.
- To say booh for pick-a-booh, mama
- To show how his personality is going to be. He is very persistent, so it is hard to distract him for something he wants. He is also very independent, he doesn't like to be fed, he wants to eat by himself.
First time Francis push is push-toy
- To walk first Independent steps.
- Beginning to eat table food
- To dance to the rhythm a any type of music.
- Beginning say 'dada' to Daddy.
- To cut his teeths
- To walk alone
- To eat mostly table food.
- To enjoy jumping in Tommy's trampoline. He climbs and hold the bar and jumps, at least it is what he thinks.
- To waves Bye, Bye and hi
- To said 'Hi'. He has said it a couple of times while waving.
- To copy the inflections of speech when babbling
- Working on eating with the spoon. He can bring the spoon with food to his mouth.
- To insert a disk on a horizontal opening. He just did it, he didn't practice. He has been successful putting the disk in a vertical position a couple of times.
- Beginning to learn body parts (hands and feet). This is happening through free play, nothing that we are pushing.
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I don't like to compare my kids because they are different and unique. Making Francis's developmental summary made me realized Tommy began to wave bye, bye when he was 7 month old, way earlier than his typical brother. He also drank from sraw cups before his 9 month and he didn't required training, it took Francis a day to get the idea. Tommy also was eating table food by 9 month. No doubt! I know how capable Tommy is. So I am fighting back to help him to overcome his sensory issues and be the child he was before. I am not alone, Francis is giving a new direction to our chromosmal war. He is Tommy's best cheerleader
and our cause of joy. The three of us enjoys so much being around Francis!
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