David's 15 month milestones

David is growing up so quickly!  He is becoming more and more little boy and less baby every day!
This past month was marked with a long bout of bronchitis, with lots of coughing and chest wheezing.  He developed thrush, and is currently taking antibiotics for it and is using an inhaler for the wheezing.  Because of everything he has taken a few steps back with his eating... for over a week, he wouldn't tolerate foods with texture, and was very fussy pushing foods away.  So I had to baby him by spoon feeding very soft foods, while trying to encourage fluids, which also presenting issues as well.  In spite of the sickness and feeding setbacks, David has made other progresses! 

Gross Motor:
-David is trying to pull himself up to stand.  We have soft furniture, so it's hard for him to grasp it, but he is maneveruing his feet under him bum and shifting his weight to stand with barely any help.  I know by next month, he'll have this down!
-David is starting to cruise, though this is hard with our soft furniture... He knows that he needs to shift the weight on his feet to take steps different directions.  But he needs a spotter, because he'll still over-reach and fall over.
-David is starting to "army crawl".  He can move forward now on his tummy!  But his perferred method of travel is the roll.
-David is a pivoting pro while sitting. He's starting to scoot too.
-David loves to plunge forward over my legs - to go from sitting to crawling on top of me.  He tries to crawl but then just pushed himself back to sitting...

-We're working on tummy to sitting by pushing himself up.  I think in a month he'll have this down, because he's so close!

Fine Motor/Other:
-David is getting very accurate with putting a small ball into a specific "hole".
-David gets a lot of enjoyment out of playing the little monkey cymbols, and ringing the triangle.
-David waves to everyone!! He knows this pleases us, so he'll wave to get our attention and then clap when he knows we're happy!  It's sooo cute.  He'll wave to strangers in the store and draw them in... he loves the compliments! :-)
-David still says "ma ma" and "da da", with more meaning than before, but he'll just say it sometimes without meaning as well.  He'll do the sign for daddy- with meaning? I don't know...
-David is starting to follow directions when I point/emulate what to do.  Like open this, close this, spin this, do that, find the ball...
-Side note... still no teeth! He's our little late bloomer on this... But his little gummy smile is still stinking cute!

That's all for now!