Buttons
June 11th, 2008
Neat developmental anecdote:
Robin likes to use one finger to touch things. It’s very cute. He can pick things up between two fingers, too, although he prefers the more general purpose ‘rake’, which seems inspired by what adults do with keyboards.
As of recently, Robin can point to the same shape across multiple pages of a book. For example, in Goodnight, Moon, he touches the red balloon on every page it appears. He’ll also touch little yellow flowers in Secret Seahorse. Kevin’s theory is that they look like buttons as on his toys, which is quite possible– he just poked the red-lit Playstation power button the same way. And of course he loves clicking a mouse.
Also, yesterday, (and I tried to get this on video but I was too late) he was playing with this toy truck, and everytime he pressed on it one of the power tool buttons would go ‘Whhrrrrrr’, and he would respond with ‘Rrrrrrrr!’
He also fake coughs. And pays intent attention when I try to teach him how to clap his hands.
He still doesn’t crawl, although he’s awfully mobile despite this. He’s a master of pushing up into a sitting position, rotating, flopping, pushing himself backward farther from his goal and wailing in frustration before getting distracted by something closer to him. He can adopt the crawling position on hands and knees, and even lift one hand up to grab at something but the closest he’s come to proper crawling has involved his head pressed against the floor.
I wonder if I may be manifesting a mild form of SAD due to the overcast year.
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Today, I heard someone refer to this time of year as “June-uary.”
I wanted to let you know I got that job I was applying for a few weeks ago. (yeah!) Outside of that, Matthew and I got sick when little James gave us his cold. Ahh … the joys of pre-adolescent teenagers.