Holy cow, so many developments and despite a full time work
job and a full time home job I really have no good excuse for not updating this
thing more often! In fact I’m fairly
certain as I was discussing this out loud with little man the other day somewhere
in his adorable (and loud) baby gibberish I heard him mutter “slacker”. Perhaps he and daddy have been working on his
language skills while I’m gone :/
Speaking of language skills this is just one of the many new
additions to his bag of tricks. We have
finally moved from our B’s (Babababwbwba) on to A’s some T’s and of course D’s
(read DADA) although he doesn’t realize what he’s saying yet, I’m encouraging
it and pointing and hoping he will make the connection soon. Still no Mama’s but that’s to be expected,
for now I will happily settle for he huge grin and lunging reach I get from him
when I get home at night! He shows great
vocal range, all they way from his ear piercing shrieking little girl
impersonation (which of course he executes to perfection anytime we are in a
public place, and all the better if it has excellent sound carrying properties)
to this freaky “Damien-esk” growl (that unfortunately sounds exactly like the
little kid from The Shinning when he chants “red rum”… uughguggh gives me the
willies every time!)
His mobility has already reached the “batten down the
hatches” stage too. While he has been
army crawling for close to two months he surprised us last week by actually
bothering to put his knees under him and crawl!
We just sort of assumed he might skip it all together but as usual the
only rules Matthew follows are his own ;)
So in addition to his own hybrid crawling style he has also
begun standing for short periods all on his own. We are dangerously close to a walking tornado!
The cabinet locks go on order today, as he has now realized
these cool new doors open just like the ones on his activity table (good
teaching leapfrog…thanks for nothing) and every surface has become a place to
pull himself up to explore. It is equal parts
amazing and terrifying to watch this stage of advancement. As I sat in his play yard with him a few days
ago and he executed one of his stand up maneuvers from my lap I just grabbed
him and hugged him and begged STOP STOP STOP (literally I said that out loud)…but
isn’t that the challenge of parenthood?
They cant stop, and we, for as much as we might truly wish to freeze
time, are supposed to encourage and enable them to GO GO GO…pride and pain, who
would have ever suspected they could be such close cousins.
As the holidays approach we are so excited to see these new
experiences through his eyes and I promise that we (either he or I cause at
this rate he will be better than me on the computer by 10mos) will keep you
updated.
Lots of love, gotta go chase down the baby…
Lori Ann
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