Bug = 2 years 6 months
Bub = 8 months 9 days What was Linus up to at this age?
NEWSFLASH!!
As of moments ago, my girl’s CRAWLING!
Daddy and I were both here to witness it. It’s a funny looking affair, with her right leg tucked underneath her rather than behind her, but the motion is purposeful and speedy. Our lives - and particularly Linus’s - have changed dramatically!
Bug = 2 years 6 months
Bub = 8 months 8 days What was Linus up to at this age?
This weekend we took a trip to Christchurch to visit Aunty Andi and Uncle Matt.
TravelThe trip up was not too bad, but Ada cried quite a lot. We ended up leaving the inside light on in the car for about half an hour so that she could see her toys, which unfortunately meant Linus couldn’t go to sleep. While Ada was screaming, I swore I’d never do this again; ten minutes later when she and her brother were finally asleep, I decided it wasn’t too bad after all.
The kids were both brilliant on the drive home, but we managed to somehow get a flat battery just south of Timaru - maybe the battery had been drained by the aforementioned “light on” experiment? Thanks to a few friendly fellows from the dairy factory we broke down at, we weren’t delayed too much.
As we drove up, I suggested to Bob that Ada might get her first tooth over the weekend. There weren’t any signs of an imminent arrival, but I was basing the prediction on the fact that Linus was about this age when he got his first tooth AND his tooth popped out while we were on a holiday in Napier.
Sure enough, on Saturday Aunty Andi was being chewed on by Ada, and she noticed that her bottom right tooth was poking through!
Bug = 2 years 6 months
Bub = 8 months 1 day
Linus had his wee friend SSO over today, and they had a great time together using finger-paints. Linus has painted at Nana’s before, but had never finger-painted, so after asking a few times for a paint brush (“Just use your fingers!”), he got into his creative flow. SSO wasn’t quite so keen on getting her hands dirty, but I’m sure after a few more tries she’ll be in elbow-deep.
Thanks to RH for making the finger-paints (and lending us her daughter) and thanks to Nana for doing most of the dispensing, demonstrating, and cleaning up of the paints.
Bug = 2 years 6 months
Bub = 8 months 1 day
Both of the following tricks are the sort of thing that happen once, and you think it was just a fluke, but Ada has done them enough now that I’m sure they’re deliberate behaviours on her part. Neither is 100% reliable, but then what child’s behaviour - or adult’s, for that matter! - is?
Ada has learned to “kiss”, and I don’t know if it’s a family thing or if it’s all babies, but her kisses are big, sloppy, open-mouthed affairs just like Linus’s were when he first learned the important life skill.
When I say “give me a kiss” and make the kissy noise, Ada shuts her eyes (she’s so romantic!), opens her mouth WIDE, and leans towards my face to get some action.
Ada’s other new trick is peekaboo. When Ada is lying on her tummy - preferably on a soft surface she can bury her head in - we say “Where’s the baby?”, repeat as needed, and when she lifts her head we say “THERE she is!”, and we get a big baby beam. What makes us think that she’s playing a deliberate part in the game is that she holds her head down for longer than we’d expect (she’s hiding!), plus she looks at us very expectantly when she lifts her head.
Bug = 2 years 5 months
Bub = 7 months 27 days
I wanted to write down what he said not because it was particularly funny, but because I was impressed by the length of sentence and the various concepts it encompassed, like grammar, imagination, role-playing and time.
The other day, Linus was playing with his little friend SSO, who was spending the morning with us while her Mum RH was away running errands. SSO was lying down on the floor, so I said to the kids “Oh, are you guys sleeping?”. Linus replied:
“No, SSO will crawl, and when RH comes back, she said… [corrects the tense] she will say ‘Are you a baby Sage?’.”
