7 month old Zac

Zac's Milestone

(7 month old)

Gross Motor

• roll both ways (front to back, back to front)
• sit on his own
• support his whole weight on his legs
• control his upper body and arms 

Fine Motor

• hold and shake a hand toy
• move an object from hand to hand
• use his hands to explore an object    

Social / Language

• reach for a person he know
• smile at himself in a mirror
• respond when other people express emotion
• copy speech sounds    

Cognitive

• track a moving object, and find one that is partially hidden
• explore with hands and mouth
• struggle to get objects that are out of reach
• look from one object to another watch a falling object
     

Zac and the "close, open" Part 2

At last! I caught him on cam doing the "close, open"! He was actually kinda grumpy in this video because he wants to be out of his high-chair but I won't let him out because I want him to take a video of him doing the "close, open" in his high-chair hehe.

Zac and the "close, open"

When Zac and I came home from the HS graduation of his cousin, I sat him down in the couch to take a picture of him wearing formal outfit. Suddenly, he started doing the "close, open" hand thingy :D ("close, open" is a Filipino thingy. You sing "close, open" over and over again while you open and close your hand/s).

I was calling his attention to get a pic of him but he didn't look at me. Instead, he looked at his right hand and did the "close, open". I caught it on camera while I was taking a picture of him for his birthday greeting for my sister. We are so happy and proud of him. This is another milestone for him :) We love you Zac! :D

Confused??

I keep on telling Zac "Say mommy, mo-mmy" or "Say daddy, da-ddy" but unfortunately I don't get any response from him. But if I tell him "I love you", he mimics and say "I love you" to me. I say I love you to Zac very often than teaching him to say the word "mommy" and "daddy" so I guess that is the reason why he likes to say I love you. Sometimes I think that he thinks that I love you is his name LOL! If he is watching TV and I tell him I love you, he will look at me. When he is half asleep and I say I love you to him, he will smile at me with his eyes closed. I wonder if he really knows what I love you means. Last night, I said I love you to him three times and he said I love you to me three times too.

Tomorrow, I'll start calling him by his name so he will start knowing his name. I am glad though that he can say I love you and yeah I love him so much.

3 week old Zac

It is fun to see child's development day by day. Zac put smile on my face every time I see development on him so I created this post to track his developmental milestone.

Zac's Milestone

( 3 week old )

Motor Development

• Opens and shuts his hands. He likes doing this over and over again. Sometimes I feel like he is grabbing something in the air.
• Raises his head and chest while lying on his stomach. He is comfortable sleeping lying on his stomach but however he raises his head and chest whenever he feel like he don't want to lie on his stomach.
• Stretches his legs out and kicks when lying on stomach or back. He does this too whenever he doesn't want to lie on his stomach.
• Mouths objects brought to his face. He sticks his bib and blanket or anything that he can grab to his mouth which simply means "Mommmyy! I am hungry."
• Grabs my hair gently. When I am feeding him, he sometimes grabs my hair and just hold it for awhile. He release it though every time I take my hair away from him.
• Strong grip. His grandpa is impressed how strong his grip is.
  

Visual Development

• Watches faces intently. I think that he really can see things already on the first day that he was born. Of course its not 20/20 vision, but I think that he can see glare already because every time I feed him, his eyes follows my face whenever I move to right and left.
• Likes looking at lights. He adores lights. He likes staring at them :)
  

Language Development

• He don't "coo" yet but he is already starting to by his mouth forming round shape.

Social/Emotional Development

• Imitates you when you stick out your tongue. He is soooo cute every time he stick out his tongue. Awhile ago, while my niece was holding him, She stuck her tongue out of him and he stuck his tongue back out of her hehe.
• Smiles and grins. He likes smiling and showing his cute dimples. He also grins while he sleeps. They says that if a baby smile or grins while he/she is sleeping then that means his/her guardian angel is playing with him/her.
  

Cognitive Development

• Plays with her fingers.
  
• Brings his hands to his mouth. This indicates that he is hungry.

These are Zac's development as of this moment and I can't wait to see more.