Christopher is doing well as usual. He seems to be starting to get over his separation/stranger anxiety a little. He has gone back to smiling at people who smile at him instead of just looking at me with a stricken look on his face. However, he does still assume that the default is for me to carry him around whenever he sees me. I'll be ready for that phase to be over. It is waning, possibly, maybe a little, because it's normally when he's tired. He definitely pushes me away sometimes to get to a toy or to investigate what John is doing...
He is enjoying communicating "Bye" with a wave and a "b-b-bye." He sometimes reciprocates when you tell him goodbye. The other day when John's Leap Frog computer said goodbye upon idle shutdown, Christopher said "Bye" back. He also shakes his head no when he feels strongly, either good or bad, about something, and often to let us know that he is done eating.
He is definitely getting more and more proficient with scooting and seems to be proud and happy with mobility. He often scoots around from the kitchen to the den to keep up with the rest of us going back and forth. Instead of dirty knees like John had when he was crawling, Christopher shows the dirt from my dirty floors on the outside of his ankles. After having read several authoritative sounding articles online about scooting vs crawling, I have made my peace with his alternative method of locomotion.
