Farewell Japan

I left this blog in somewhat of a hurry after the earthquake on March 11th. It was unsafe to drink the water in Tokyo if you were a nursing mother and my husband was being called back to his university in Toronto, so we rushed to buy tickets home early and said goodbye to Japan about a week after the earthquake happened.

I have wondered if our time in the super-stimulating loft might have hurried Elliott's development along. There is a mum in my apartment building in Toronto who has a baby girl with the same birthday as our baby. We go to the same play group, so I am able to compare them. Elliott started sitting up unassisted and rolled from front to back at 5.5 months, but the baby girl was doing it earlier. Elliott is reasonably happy to sit up for long periods of time, but he flops to the floor when he gets tired. The baby girl is completely comfortable sitting, and has even started trying to crawl! All before six months old. From this I conclude that both our babies are doing things a bit early, but that girls do things faster than boys. (Although there's another baby girl a week older than Elliott at play group who doesn't know how to sit up by herself yet)

You can see from all this that mothers are pretty competitive!!

Here is a picture of Elliott sitting up nice and straight in a Dragonball suit we bought for him in Japan: