While I was cooking dinner and after Logan's bath, I put him in his high chair to eat a snack and went back to cooking. When I finally turned around from my culinary masterpiece spaghetti Bolognese, this is how he was sitting. He wasn't phased by it or fussing, but was struggling a bit to get his feet back in the holes. He spent 20 minutes going back and forth from putting his feet on top of the tray to back through the holes.
It's interesting how I react to Logan's curiosity. For the girls and D, I would have been inclined to buckle them in tighter so that I would stop fearing for their safety, but with Logan, seeing that this helped him work a bit and forced him to use his muscles to strain a little to do this, I totally let him. Not only that, I cheered for him every time he put his feet back through the holes. Isn't it funny how parenting can change from kid to kid?
I really don't know the last time I dreaded following Logan up and down and up and down and (you get the picture) the stairs because I know that he needs this to strengthen his muscles, whereas with the others, it just came naturally and I tired more quickly of the mundane monotony of the tiresome tricks that babies are inclined to do. (Like having the baby hand you every card in a deck of cards and then you handing them back to him one by one. Repeat. A gazzilion times.) Logan on the other hand, gets away withmurder pulling down things, climbing on things, throwing things, and getting into things more than the rest ever did. And it's totally not because I am a lazy busy parent. Nope. I am thinking of his development people!
It's interesting how I react to Logan's curiosity. For the girls and D, I would have been inclined to buckle them in tighter so that I would stop fearing for their safety, but with Logan, seeing that this helped him work a bit and forced him to use his muscles to strain a little to do this, I totally let him. Not only that, I cheered for him every time he put his feet back through the holes. Isn't it funny how parenting can change from kid to kid?
I really don't know the last time I dreaded following Logan up and down and up and down and (you get the picture) the stairs because I know that he needs this to strengthen his muscles, whereas with the others, it just came naturally and I tired more quickly of the mundane monotony of the tiresome tricks that babies are inclined to do. (Like having the baby hand you every card in a deck of cards and then you handing them back to him one by one. Repeat. A gazzilion times.) Logan on the other hand, gets away with
Can you tell that I am obsessed with loving the strike through?
I'm sure it's just a phase I'm going through.
Bear with me.
The novelty will never wear off eventually.
He is SO cute!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is funny how approach changes with kids. My youngest gets away with more then his older siblings too, but it is so he can catch up on physical development.
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