Why You Treat Me Like a Dog?: Milestones

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Milestones

Baby wanderer (BW) is nearing the 10 month old mark. It seems like in the last few weeks someone pressed fast forward, and he has just started hitting milestone after milestone in rapid succession:

1) He's crawling - in the forward direction. It seemed like for the longest time he would just lay there having "tummy time," or perhaps crawl backwards a few inches. But now he actually books across the room, follows Bella around everywhere and would probably follow her out into the yard if we didn't catch him.

2) He's consistently saying his first word - as would be expected, his first word was...Bella! Except it sounds more like Deda. Nonetheless he is consistent.

3) He waves and says hi - so effin' cute!

4) He claps. BW watched the American Idol finale with us last week (he just wouldn't go to bed, and we couldn't risk missing it). Everytime the audience applauded so did BW. He voted for Taylor.

5) He made his first phone call. Well, sort of. He must have pressed redial or something, but ended up calling my aunt in Seattle. Luckily, it was in front of us, so we were able to hear her saying "hello, hello" before the minutes started adding up...

6) He can pull himself up to a standing position. Very problematic. It used to be we would lay him down in his crib after rocking him to sleep. He might cry for a few seconds, but then would just fall asleep. Now he actually pulls himself up and stands there crying, which brings me to the milestone he has not yet reached:

He doesn't know how to sit down.

Yup. Not only does he not know how to sit down, he is so afraid to try (because of previous bad experiences), that he will just stand there and cry until we come and help him down. And then what does he do? He stands right back up and the cycle starts again. Oy.

I guess we'll just to wait until he hits that sitting down milestone... In the meantime, there isn't much sleep going on around here. Again. (Note that the yawning hippo is back!)

- posted by wanderer @ 9:53 PM

Comments:

Wanderer: wonderful post. It makes me long for those days. What a smart little guy, knowing to vote for Taylor, though, I'm impressed. Funny, my oldest son's first word was the name of our cat.

# posted by

cruisin-mom : 5/28/2006 11:12 PM

Thanks for sharing your wonderful yeled (boy) with us.
He'll be a "wanderer" before you know it. Enjoy every moment!

# posted by

torontopearl : 5/30/2006 2:14 PM

Very sweet. To echo Pearl, enjoy every minute!

# posted by

... Is the Window to Our Soul : 5/30/2006 7:14 PM

cruisin' - yup he's a smart one. He always seemed to agree with Simon...

pearl - oh he's wandering around plenty now, more and more every day! Getting tiring.

Thanks sweettooth - we are enjoying him so much!

# posted by

wanderer : 5/30/2006 8:30 PM

Mazel tov--maybe the dedeh is actually daddy?

# posted by

PsychoToddler : 6/05/2006 6:50 AM

Good point PT, but its all in the context, no? There is dedah and then there is dadah, and they are always context appropriate. We have come to terms with the fact that we lost out to the dog...

# posted by

wanderer : 6/06/2006 12:03 PM

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