Iris Jumps!
A few months ago, out of the blue, one of Mama D's good college friends, who is also now a mother, sent us a "Jumperoo". The concept of this thing is pretty simple: seat supported by springs on all 4 corners, with a few obligatory colorful sliding toys and even a few musical numbers triggered by, of course, jumping. When it arrived, we promptly returned the other jumper thingydoo (the one that attaches to doorways) we'd gotten for store credit.. This thing looked awesome! But at the time, Iris was nowhere near fitting into it. I think the seat would have swallowed her whole!
We've been putting Iris more and more into her exersaucer and this jumperoo lately, as she's shown a greater inclination toward standing and putting things in her mouth. However, with the height of the seat so far above the "ground", she's had little to do except flop forward or backward in the seat, suspended only by her butt and lacking the arm strength to do much about it.
Well, all of that changed a little over a week ago. Not only did her feet finally start reaching, but she also started grabbing at specific toys. So we encouraged her some more, trying to lift the jumperoo seat up and down so as to make her, well, jump. And then finally, on Sunday, she jumped! Individual, infrequent jumps, but jumps nonetheless. We took a bunch of pictures, a few of which kick-off the new "5th Month" photo set, but there was no movie material...
Today there was:
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Doesn't she seem to respond to the talking? Our neighbor had just visited and was going nuts while we chatted.. Also the grunting was a funny touch.
In just a few days, she's gone from putzing around to stringing 3 or 4 jumps together! We'll keep an eye on this- no doubt that with Nanny Carole's expert guidance, she'll be jumping all day long on this thing soon enough..!
We've been putting Iris more and more into her exersaucer and this jumperoo lately, as she's shown a greater inclination toward standing and putting things in her mouth. However, with the height of the seat so far above the "ground", she's had little to do except flop forward or backward in the seat, suspended only by her butt and lacking the arm strength to do much about it.
Well, all of that changed a little over a week ago. Not only did her feet finally start reaching, but she also started grabbing at specific toys. So we encouraged her some more, trying to lift the jumperoo seat up and down so as to make her, well, jump. And then finally, on Sunday, she jumped! Individual, infrequent jumps, but jumps nonetheless. We took a bunch of pictures, a few of which kick-off the new "5th Month" photo set, but there was no movie material...
Today there was:
Share Video at DropShots.com
Doesn't she seem to respond to the talking? Our neighbor had just visited and was going nuts while we chatted.. Also the grunting was a funny touch.
In just a few days, she's gone from putzing around to stringing 3 or 4 jumps together! We'll keep an eye on this- no doubt that with Nanny Carole's expert guidance, she'll be jumping all day long on this thing soon enough..!
posted by naM modnaR at 10:28 PM
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Congrats to the proud parents of an actual jumper! Of the many, many talents little Iris has, I'm sure this will be one of the proudest moments! i have been thinking of you all, and keeping up with the blog.. I love it. How great is technology.. sometimes. I hope you're all doing as great as it seems, and i know she'll soon be doing actual ninja kicks, higher than the sky soon! (my fave. photo collection is still the IRIS FU.. I laugh my ass off everytime I look at it!). She is so cute I can't even understand it !!! How do you look at her and not eat her whole?!??
Hope you got the little (late) package I sent.. I'm not sure of your correct address, but i sent it anyways.. big risk taker that i am..
hugs
Tro
ps, here's a blast fromt he past... and update.
trevor kelly sent me an email, and is a COP in san fransisco. who'da thought?!
schnittman and his wife are pregnant, and are back from kazicstan (?) where they were in the peace corps.
garth is married with kid/s.
are you going to the reunion?
tim and i are getting married :)
:)
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