Feb. 4th, 2013 07:40 pm
Baby Update
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mizarchivistThe baby!!! Yes, I need to talk about The Crime Fighter. I keep composing posts about him and then failing to commit them to electrons.I'm feeling super-bad because I've not really written about hi since Thanksgiving. So, let's see...
I've stopped thinking about him in terms of months. He's a year and a half, give or take. I did just sort out he'll be 18 months at the end of this month. So, officially 1.5. :)
Language-His proto-words are evolving, but primarily still not very intelligible as English. Slowly but surely. He is shaking his head and starting to say No, which is (typically) more than I'd like. He's probably said "More" more often than anything else in the last month or two. Anything/everything: more. I expect he'll make some massive leaps forward there, but he's just so busy with his motor skills and growing taller (he comes up to my hip), that this speech thing seems unnecessary. If he does go to school soon, I expect that'll propel him forward all of a sudden.
He definitely understands just about everything, though. He has picked up on a lot of patterns and social queues. One of my favorites is he will make kiss noises and wave. Often when prompted, but as part of the mom/purple_terro o work ritual and the go to bed ritual. He is also starting to understand things like "Go find Daddy" or "Let's go upstairs."
Play-He's still very social, but not 100% outgoing. We visited a favorite friend who has a dog yesterday. Mr.D has hung out with Lucy a fair bit, but he's still pretty cautious. Dogs seem best from a safe distance or in pictorial form. However, by the end of the visit, he started trying to directly interact with the pup- bent down, smiled and almost touched her. So cool! He is also doing a lot of fun hide-and-seek stuff with his favorite people. He'll run away and "hide," and wait to get found/caught. There's usually running and chasing that happens, too. That I love so much. Of course, he's still climbing anything he can manage. He's super-fast.
Oh. And then there's the dancing. The boy adores music and will do this bobbing dance, which looks like deep knee bends, along with exclamations of "DA!" (which we take to mean "dance"). I think he primarily favors bluegrass and pop-rock.
He has gotten to the age of wanting to be read. I may have mentioned a while ago that his favorite tactic to get my attention is to ask for a story. I've been very pleased to see him do this to others, including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fubar.
Growing Pains-His eye teeth aren't entirely in yet (it's been months), so teething is a weekly pain for everyone. There's no such thing as sleeping through the night. He's still in our room and so letting him cry it out is a bit beyond us when he's staring at us and screaming at the top of his lungs at 3 am. He's also taken to not going back to sleep after he nurses and so stays up for an hour. Or 2. Or more. And then there's the hitting. I don't love the hitting. Or the sudden bonelessness of passive resistance that would make the Ghandi proud. And the protesting of knocking his head into wall or floor or furniture. We all do our best, try to be calm and loving without being a door mat and hope he figures out whatever cognitive hurdle that's gotten him so upset
I'm ridiculously behind on taking pictures, shooting video, or sharing either. I think this is inevitable? Know he's doing well and as entirely amazing as one might expect or wish.
Also, he may well not be bald forever for realsies. Slowly but surely he's getting some nice, dark duck-down.
I've stopped thinking about him in terms of months. He's a year and a half, give or take. I did just sort out he'll be 18 months at the end of this month. So, officially 1.5. :)
Language-His proto-words are evolving, but primarily still not very intelligible as English. Slowly but surely. He is shaking his head and starting to say No, which is (typically) more than I'd like. He's probably said "More" more often than anything else in the last month or two. Anything/everything: more. I expect he'll make some massive leaps forward there, but he's just so busy with his motor skills and growing taller (he comes up to my hip), that this speech thing seems unnecessary. If he does go to school soon, I expect that'll propel him forward all of a sudden.
He definitely understands just about everything, though. He has picked up on a lot of patterns and social queues. One of my favorites is he will make kiss noises and wave. Often when prompted, but as part of the mom/
Play-He's still very social, but not 100% outgoing. We visited a favorite friend who has a dog yesterday. Mr.D has hung out with Lucy a fair bit, but he's still pretty cautious. Dogs seem best from a safe distance or in pictorial form. However, by the end of the visit, he started trying to directly interact with the pup- bent down, smiled and almost touched her. So cool! He is also doing a lot of fun hide-and-seek stuff with his favorite people. He'll run away and "hide," and wait to get found/caught. There's usually running and chasing that happens, too. That I love so much. Of course, he's still climbing anything he can manage. He's super-fast.
Oh. And then there's the dancing. The boy adores music and will do this bobbing dance, which looks like deep knee bends, along with exclamations of "DA!" (which we take to mean "dance"). I think he primarily favors bluegrass and pop-rock.
He has gotten to the age of wanting to be read. I may have mentioned a while ago that his favorite tactic to get my attention is to ask for a story. I've been very pleased to see him do this to others, including
fubar.Growing Pains-His eye teeth aren't entirely in yet (it's been months), so teething is a weekly pain for everyone. There's no such thing as sleeping through the night. He's still in our room and so letting him cry it out is a bit beyond us when he's staring at us and screaming at the top of his lungs at 3 am. He's also taken to not going back to sleep after he nurses and so stays up for an hour. Or 2. Or more. And then there's the hitting. I don't love the hitting. Or the sudden bonelessness of passive resistance that would make the Ghandi proud. And the protesting of knocking his head into wall or floor or furniture. We all do our best, try to be calm and loving without being a door mat and hope he figures out whatever cognitive hurdle that's gotten him so upset
I'm ridiculously behind on taking pictures, shooting video, or sharing either. I think this is inevitable? Know he's doing well and as entirely amazing as one might expect or wish.
Also, he may well not be bald forever for realsies. Slowly but surely he's getting some nice, dark duck-down.
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I feel you on the no sleeping through the night, the hitting, and the sudden bonelessness. If Xander sleeps 4 hours in a row, we are thrilled. Sadly, that doesn't happen as much as we would like. Less sadly, it just occurred to me that he's been hitting less often in the last week or so. Maybe it's because his communication skills are really ramping up, so he's less frustrated? I would surmise that you may see something similar once CF gets better at producing intelligible words.
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When ours started hitting we would do things to establish a separation. If we were holding him, we would put him down. If we were not, we would turn our back on him. This was a shocking and upsetting thing and seemed to break the pattern much better than anything else we tried. of course, nothing is 100% and it's very hard to do this in public. But we tried.