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First day

Yesterday (Monday) was a big day of firsts:

– Carly’s first day back at work

– My first full official day of working at home, as it were

– My mom and dad’s first time taking care of August by themselves while I went to my first physical therapy here in Seoul

For my parents there were several other firsts as well: dealing with the Korean maintenance people that showed up while I was gone, visiting APIS, taking Korean public transit, etc. 

But of course you are here for August, so here are his firsts from yesterday:

Feeding himself with the bottle. He doesn’t actually have much experience with a bottle. Carly was gone for shorter periods on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and in that time period we fed him probably a total of 20 ounces from bottles. Yesterday, he decided to just do it himself. Here he is finishing of one bottle. He then proceeded to drink the entire next bottle of 5oz by himself. I only had to help when he got the nipple kinked, and right at the end when he needed to angle the bottle up to get the last of it:


Also, in the previous 24 hours or so he had started to turn on his stomach when sleeping. Usually it would wake him up though or we would turn him back on his side. By yesterday afternoon, however, it was clear he was doing it intentionally, and he was staying asleep when he did it:


Since then he has gotten better about turning his head to the side. 

Back at it…

Much has happened over the summer, but we are back in Seoul and getting settled into our new, new life of Carly teaching, me staying at home, and August doing something new every day.

To give you an idea of where August is now at, here are a list of recent milestones:

– Sleeping on his stomach 

– His two bottom front tooth are through; a top one is on its way

– Holding a full bottle by himself and drinking the whole thing with barely any help from me

– Close to full control of rotating his pacifier any direction in his hand, passing it back and forth between hands, putting it in his mouth, and holding on to it when he wants it out but knows he might want it back in a minute

 – Loving tummy time and being able to intentionally rotate. No crawling yet, but it might be close

I am sure there are others. Carly can weigh in if I missed any.