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Tiny adventures in baby development

A few small, non-milestone things that K has been up to:

* Head-shaking. K sometimes looks at me seriously and shakes his head. (I don't think he's saying "no." He may be saying something, but I don't know what.) I can't resist mirroring his expression and shaking my head back. So we take turns solemnly shaking our head at each other, and then we both start laughing and we laugh and shake our heads.

* Standing on his toes to get something out of his reach. He's been doing this for quite a while, but the first time I noticed it I thought it was so cool that he had figured that out.

* First noise -- not exactly a first word. While K occasionally says "Mama" in my direction, he doesn't do it regularly or deliberately enough for us to think he means it. But he loves to look out the window -- I mean LOVES, he will stand there for ten minutes looking out the window -- and when cars go by, I say, "A car! Vroom!" and he says "Bvvvv" which is his version of "Vroom." And he thinks it's funny when I blow in his face and make his hair fly up, and when I do this he says "Fffp" which I think is his blowing noise.

* Eating a cracker. He ate his first cracker on Super Bowl Sunday. I was very impressed. It takes a lot of coordination to eat a cracker -- pick up, bring to mouth, keep taking small bites, chewing, and swallowing until it's gone. And the part that requires a little more brain maturity, I think, is that you have to realize that you can't eat the entire cracker at once and need to take bites. In general, he loves picking up big things and taking bites, and is much happier to do this than eating the small morsels we gve him. But I don't think he's totally ready for that. When I give him a big piece of fruit, I have to watch him carefully because after a while he gets bored and shoves the entire thing in his mouth.

* Wailing when we take away a toy. An early sign of toddlerhood.

* Reaching over the edge. I was relieved when he was past the "don't leave him alone on the bed for two seconds or he'll tumble off" stage. But now he's so curious about everything, and moves so fast, that sometimes he will reach a litle too enthusiastically and find himself in a precarious situation. He hasn't actually fallen off anything yet.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).