In other news . . . last week John mastered a lip-smacking sound, sort of like a rude person chewing his food with his mouth open. This week he's working on blowing raspberries: it sounds like a boy making a motor-revving sound (brrr-rrr-rrr) but with more air and spit.
John is on all fours more and more often. He's in full development of age-appropriate stranger anxiety, bursting into tears if somebody else holds him or crying when I walk out of the room. John is increasingly mobile, so he is getting more boo-boos. He'll try to roll over or crawl, but doesn't have good perception of distance, so he'll roll into a piece of furniture or bonk his head by crawling slowly into a wall. Mostly his tears are just from being startled, but it still makes his mama's heart hurt.
Is it possible for John, only six months old, already to have begun the game of dropping a toy repeatedly (off his booster seat or his Exersaucer) in order to get Mama to engage and give him back the toy over and over? I didn't think it was possible, but I feel that I'm seeing purpose in John's actions. After I hand him back the toy, he grins. Today over lunch, John was sitting in his booster seat while I ate. He held his toy suspended in the air over the floor and only when I reached for it did he drop it. But John is so young! Other mamas, what do you think?
sure, why not?
ReplyDeleteSarah: "Why not?" I didn't know if a 6-month-old could understand that kind of cause and effect yet. Before it was apparent when he dropped a toy that it was accidental: he would do it only once, I'd give it back, and he'd hang on tight. But when he began dropping a toy over and over--even though his fine motor skills should be better now--I began wondering about his movites.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! He is very clever, and his world revolves around you. We've seen it with our children. Once they notice your movements they are motivated to manipulate them! After all a baby's world is all about ME and momma!
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