2 days ago: Alex puked all over our bed. Not baby spit up. Puke.- He’s learned to bang objects held in each hand together (he’s been banging held objects against floors / tables / etc. for a while now). Better yet, it seems like he’s learned this by imitating us. It’s amazing how much coordination it takes to make noise with two objects. I guess I take it for granted.
- Why am I snacking on Cheerios all day?
- My breakfast these days seems to consist of: coffee, cereal, yogurt, Alex’s leftovers (mushed fruit and plain yogurt).
- Along with learning to pull up and crawl, Alex needs to learn to fall. He’s not doing too well at it. He keeps bonking his head. I’m getting a bit worried at the frequency of it. Dina noted that we should put up a sign: “
OneZero days without Alex bonking his head.” Part of me knows he’ll eventually learn to fall in a controlled fashion, and eventually not fall at all. Part of me worries that each time he falls and hits his head, he kills the poor brain cells that have learned how to deal with falling and has to start all over again. Mind you, today he showed marked improvement. - He’s a fan of physical humour. Us falling down on our bed makes him smile and laugh.
- He smiles and sits / stands up a bit straighter as if proud when we applaud one of his little accomplishments.
- He crawled to Dina from across the room when she beckoned him.
- He deleted one of my iTunes playlists by mashing on my keyboard. This involved hitting the
Deletekey and subsequently hitting theEnterkey in order to acknowledge the confirmation dialog that appeared. - He appears not to want any siblings. As I was sitting on the couch, he crawled onto my lap and proceeded to punch me square in the groin. o.u.c.h.
Lotsa Little Lex Things
2007-02-02 22:24
(I am a friend of Richard’s and saw your post there.)
We had luck training our daughter to fall by doing two things. The most important was cheering each time she fell “well”. We also put colored, interlocking floor “gym” mats (which we got at Lowes, all over her free play space. They’re soft enough that we like being on the floor more, plus when she falls, there isn’t the crack sound as she hits her head. They’re hard enough that she doesn’t want to fall and still gets the “that’s no fun, ouch!” feedback she needs.
We have the interlocking foam letters that are on the floor, but he manages to bump his head on everything else, even the walls. Falling on the floor results in a thump, not a crack, but he still cries.
We’d been encouraging him when he was able to get down from standing safely, but not systematically… we like the idea and will see how it works.