Sitting...sort of

Finley's been working hard on lots of skills lately (talking, sleeping longer, reaching for his feet, eating solids, drooling, etc.) but up until last week, we hadn't really pushed him to practice sitting up. We know that all babies are different and don't always develop milestone skills on the same timeline that all the books say...but we kinda feel like our brilliant baby has been a bit lazy in the sitting department. For months now Finley has LOVED to stand up (while being supported by one of us, of course), but we realized that he never really sits. He'll sit in the bumbo chair and sometimes on our laps, but in general he's not so into it.

Now, we are making a conscious effort to get the little guy to not hate sitting on his rear end. We sit with him between our legs and try to distract him with a book or a toy. He can do it now for maybe 2 minutes before revolting by leaning back and pushing up with his legs or just whining pathetically. We have also tried having him sit on our stomachs while we're lying down and that can work well too. Right now Fin ends up hunching himself over so much, compressing his stomach to the point we think he might barf...so we can only do it hours after he's eaten. Which is a hard timeline since babies eat quite often. Needless to say, we think we're making progress and every once in a while, he can balance himself for a few seconds in the sitting position. I'm sure at our 6 month check up, the doctor will tell me not to worry about it but at least I'll feel like we are working on it :)

Here are some shots from earlier in the week during one sitting session with Dan:

Here are two photos unrelated to sitting, but Finley is wearing the same outfit so they must have happened on the same day! (can't seem to turn off this underlining...arg)

Go Giants!!