. How I kept my baby well . Smiled.(12 W. 2D.). Laughed aloud. Fourth Month: (15 W. ID.). Sat up alone for about two minutes. (15 W. 4 D.). Found his hands, after several days trial. (16 W. 4 D.). I held him up by his feet. (See p. 176, Plate I, No. 3.) (16 W. 2D.). Reached out and caught hold of scales. (17 W. 1 D.). Held him suspended by his arms. Fifth Month:(17 W. 4 D.). Laughed heartily when his toes were put into his mouth. (See Fig. 3, p. 37.)(17 W. 6 D.). I held him up by his hands and he put his feet on my chest.(18 W.). Rode cock-horse. (See Plate I, No. 4, p. 176.)(19 W. 2D.). Greet


. How I kept my baby well . Smiled.(12 W. 2D.). Laughed aloud. Fourth Month: (15 W. ID.). Sat up alone for about two minutes. (15 W. 4 D.). Found his hands, after several days trial. (16 W. 4 D.). I held him up by his feet. (See p. 176, Plate I, No. 3.) (16 W. 2D.). Reached out and caught hold of scales. (17 W. 1 D.). Held him suspended by his arms. Fifth Month:(17 W. 4 D.). Laughed heartily when his toes were put into his mouth. (See Fig. 3, p. 37.)(17 W. 6 D.). I held him up by his hands and he put his feet on my chest.(18 W.). Rode cock-horse. (See Plate I, No. 4, p. 176.)(19 W. 2D.). Greeted us with a smile and gurglings.(19 W. 6 D.). Tried to raise himself up by propping himself on one elbow. Later tried to pull himself up by pulling on the horizontal bar in his basket. Again, lying on the bed, he grasped his fathers fingers and after three attempts pulled himself up to a sitting position.(20 W.). Kicked hard against the bar (broom handle) in his basket. Laughed heartily when I pinched and slapped. Holding. *+^ yi ^3 o W) a ^ la ^ ^ ~ o ^ -• c -t-i > o cS c fl -4-> -t-J ^ fl „ o -c a c o CO i//p^pyg ^c/3c 15@ SUMMARIES 157 slapped. Holding on to a stick which I held out to him, he raised himself up several times from a lyiug to a sitting Month:(22 W.). Sat alone for from three to tive minutes.(23 W.). First ride out-of-doors in carriage. Sat up straight for an hour. (See p. 170, Plate 1. No. 11.)(23 W.). Pulled himself up Avhenever he could get hold of my fingers. Kicked and splashed in his Month:Lying on his back, he kicked a tin pan almost steadily for an hour.(27 \y. 2D.). Stood alone by his basket. (See p. 178, Plate II, No. 1.) Seized every opportunity to try to pull himself up on his feet.(28 W.). Pulled himself up alone to a standing position.(28 W. 5 D.). Moved, by rolling on the floor, a distance of three feet. Eighth Month:(32 W. 4 D.). Took steps when supported.(33 W. 2D.). Walked, by grasping moving things.


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