Catching Up
April 10, 2003 – 9:30 amI’m ashamed that I’ve only been writing about one post a week. That’s just not acceptable. I promise to do better. I know I’ve been promising new pictures for months now and I haven’t delivered on that promise. I will, though… I promise.
Liam has teeth now, two of them, and this has made me afraid to put my fingers anywhere near his mouth. Not that he would bite me on purpose. He would hurt me without realizing it, and his lack of understanding is what makes it such a scary thing. That unpredictability is, well, it’s just pretty darn unpredictable.
He just recently learn about throwing. It’s developmental milestone when babies learn how to let go of things at will like that. When I first noticed it, I though he was trying to pick something up and because he was so excited his jerky movements were causing him to lose his grip. When he kept picking the thing up (it was a rattle) and throwing it down and picking it up and throwing it down over and over and over, I finally realized he was doing it on purpose. I thought it was pretty funny. Luckily he was sitting on the floor and he could retrieve his own thrown object, because the baby-throw/daddy-pickup game I do not find particularly fun. However, now that I realize it’s part of his learning about cause and effect, I will be more understanding.
He likes to bounce. When I get home he will give me his big “Daddy’s Home!” smile and bounce and nod his head emphatically – like some kind of crazy future head-banger. If I get down and put my forehead against his, he will bang his head into mine – it’s kind of a sick, painful game we play.
He is incredibly ticklish on his ribs. If I zerbit him there, he laughs uncontrollably. It’s really very funny. His feet are also ticklish and chewing his feet also makes him laugh. Zerbit: that’s a reverse kiss – you know when you pucker your lips and blow so that it makes a raspberry (aka “Bronx cheer”:http://www.onelook.com/?w=bronx%20cheer) sound.
He’s not real fond of being on his tummy, and that’s probably part of the reason he’s not crawling yet. He starts to fuss and cry and we pick him up. Sometimes, though, we do let him deal with it – he does need to learn to crawl. He scoots backward pretty well, it’s forward he has trouble with. He gets up on his knees, he just hasn’t figured out the forward movement. I tried helping him last night. I’d put him on his knees and move his legs forward. Of course, he wouldn’t move his hands and he would fall on his face. He thought it was great fun – I don’t think he learned anything.
Jen took some really cute pictures yesterday of Liam and his cousin Myles. Myles is about a year and a half old. In these pictures, Myles is not smiling, not even a little, but Liam has the biggest, goofiest open mouth grin I’ve ever seen. I made that picture my desktop background (saying desktop wallpaper just doesn’t make sense) and every time I see it I just start laughing. I’ll try to get it posted tonight. No, I’ll do better than try – I’ll *do* it. I promise.
4 Responses to “Catching Up”
Cute stuff…enjoy these times before he can crawl forward and get into everything!!
By Pamela on Apr 10, 2003
How cool! I love tickling my kids! They’ll actually ask for it if I stop too soon. Any how, thanks for sharing.
By Rich on Apr 17, 2003
Forgive my intrusion. Just a very new user of AceFTP and signed up for forums (have to learn somewhere). Noticed your name there (unknown to me) and thought I’d look at your web link. Saw the writings about Liam and just wanted to say… he is learning a great deal from sounds…and this is why clapping his hands seemed so interesting (that also teaches tolerances for bones, muscles and nerve sensing…but his key interest was sound). Liam is the kind of boy who should stay away from arguments…even if they’re on the TV. He needs to visit forests and the like more (if he can) to listen to nature more than he is doing. That will teach him more about the sounds of peace and tranquility. Very important. Please…be very aware that he still has (what are known as) a lot of internal energy, so please be sure he stays right away from any fabrics that “hold” (store) or conduct static electrical energy. All clothing and bedding materials MUST be cotton. No plastics or other synthetics.
You mentioned Liam doesn’t like being on his stomach so much. This also has a lot to do with internal energies…and in fact the fourth chakra (centre of the body…or stomach) is the chakra of balance. Please do not insist (in any way) that Liam lay on or use his stomach, or you may disrupt his immune system. In fact, that could already be happening. Again, here is another good reason to avoid all synthetics, especially on his feet (the feet are good channels for letting out energies he doesn’t want or need… and if you cover his feet with synthetics, you will block that outlet…which results in nausea).
When in forests, parks (where trees are not touched too often by humans) and the like, please put Liam on a cotton blanket (or something like it) and sit him at the base of a tree. The bigger the tree, the better the effect. Give him something to amuse his mind, so he does not think about (or be distracted by) his surroundings too much…and the tree will help drain energies Liam does not need…and that causes natural balance. Of course you’ll be there with him to assure no bugs or whatever approach him…so your energies will be influenced too (but don’t sit him on your lap at the base of the tree, or your energies will mingle…which isn’t bad…but the “drainage” of energies Liam doesn’t need will not happen as well as it could).
My email address is colegg@ms2.hinet.net and my name is Garry…if you want more.
By Garry on May 24, 2003
I have an idea, too. You’re a nut.
By John R. on Sep 19, 2003