Staring at Trees

Mommy and Declan had a wonderful day today.  After a normal morning of breakfast, bottles and bum changes we packed up the park necessities and headed out.  A half hour walk to the park, we found a big tree to sit under for some shade.  Laid out our picnic blanket and stretched out.  Declan was in the best spirits because there was so much to look at.  A large butterfly flew by, the leaves on the trees were russling, birds were chirping and he'd brought along his best bud Monkey too.

Since there were lots of neat things to look at Mommy thought maybe Declan would lay on his tummy for a bit instead of the immediate roll-over.  Placed him down and he stayed on his tummy just slightly longer than normal but there was a slight incline where we were laying so when he rolled over he rolled right on to his side and almost kept going.  Mommy did get the little man to sit up for quite a while by placing him sitting up with his laptop toy computer.  He is still very wobbly but he is most certainly getting better with his balance.

While we were at the park Daddy's work day ended so before driving home he headed over to the park to see his little boy.  He saw us right away.  Drove close to where we were, parked the car and as soon as he got out Declan spied him.  Flashed big grins at his daddy, so happy to see him.  So Daddy visited at the park for a few minutes with Mommy and Declan and got to enjoy the kids crazy park giggles.

After Daddy left Declan had some bottle and took a nice parklife nap.  He jumped every few minutes
at the sound of big kids playing in the park but overall it was a nice fresh air nap.  Once the little park nap was over we packed it in and headed home.

This evening Declan had a lot of assisted sitting playtime.  He has no butt so it will take a lot of practice to get the sitting up alone mastered.  He also put weight on his legs for Mommy today even if it was only about 10 seconds.  That's an improvement over...well...no weight on his legs so we're pleased.  The best development though was after dinner when Declan was playing with his baby laptop.  Mommy placed it down on the floor for him and then put Declan tummy down so he could play with it.  We watched him lay there with his toy for over 10 minutes - a huge improvement for our little Declan. 

The rest of the evening was simply smiles and giggles.  We had to put him to bed at 9pm even though he was still awake because he just wanted to hang out but because Daddy needs to get to bed early because of work.  Declan talked away to himself which is pretty amusing over the baby monitor for a few minutes before drifting off to baby slumberland.  Tomorrow Declan gets to see Chelsey, Molly, McGregor and Abigale for the afternoon.  Best rest up cutie!!