Waving: He waves like mad at all sorts of things, but especially if you wave at him. And if he waves and someone waves back he enjoys that very much.
Clapping: His Grandmother always clapped to him on his video chats. About a week ago he started clapping back. Now he claps all the time.
Pointing: About a week ago he started pointing at things that he is interested in. He will point at an airplane and track it across the sky. He will point at something across the room and continue to point straight at him as you carry him toward it until he can touch it. He will also just generally point where he wants to go when he is being carried.
Light Switches: He can reliably turn light switches off. He can sometimes turn them back on, but it is much harder. There is a switch by his changing table, and he almost always turns it off as soon as we sit him down there.
Steps: He can climb up steps with ease. Today for the first time he climbed all the way from downstairs to upstairs. He can’t quite do going DOWN stairs in a controlled way, so of course someone is always right there with him.
More to come before long I’m sure. And I’m sure I forgot some as well.
Since I’ve been doing these videos every month for Alex, I didn’t want Amy to be left out or anything, and as it turned out, she was turning 175 months old soon after I thought of this, so I started collecting video of her as well as Alex. So here, designed to be exactly the same length (plus or minus a second) as the last Alex video, is a set of highlights of Amy’s 175th month. This covers from April 21st at 05:46 UTC to May 21st at 16:15 UTC. Congratulations Amy on turning 175 months old a few days ago! Woo!
If you don’t see the embedded video above for whatever reason, here is a direct link to YouTube: Amy’s 175th Month
(Edited 19:42 UTC to embed and link to corrected video fixing an error in one of the captions.)
OK, I know the video is a bit too long. Eight minutes. But hey, I know nobody but close family and perhaps a few friends is going to watch the whole thing anyway. And it was late and I didn’t want to edit it down any further. So eight minutes it is! Anyway, enjoy some highlights of Alex’s eighth month. (This covers 2010 Apr 13 18:02 UTC to 2010 May 14 04:31 UTC.)
If you don’t see the embedded video above for whatever reason, here is a direct link to YouTube: Alex’s Eighth Month