Thursday, November 8th, 2007...11:42 am
When Good Babies Go Bad
Jethro has been crawling for the last couple of weeks, which is a pretty impressive feat when you consider the obstacle of his hip brace. I think he looks like a demented amputee spider:
And as of yesterday, his brace is gorn, although he’ll still be monitored to make sure his hip sockets deepen properly. If they don’t he’d have to have surgery to do it in a couple of years. Sage is excited that we have a “plain baby” now. Me too.
If you have kids (and perhaps if you haven’t) you’ll know that as soon as they start moving their sleeping goes to the dogs because every time their sleep cycle lightens they urgently want to do more sitting/crawling/pulling up, etc. That would explain why I found Jethro in his cot this morning having (a) taken the light globe out of my beside lamp (b) opened a water bottle and (c) poured the water all over himself and a container of nappies under the cot. He was very pleased.
15 Comments
November 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
You have only yourself to blame. You keep breeding them smart and eager to engage with the world!
I love that clip. He looks like he’s grooving to that excellent music.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
oh, and
YAY!!!!
[wavs arms liek fozzie bere or was it kermt the frg]
November 8th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
yay!
November 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Yay!
Verily.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
I love the way Jethro laughs.
and now he’s mobile! how cool is that?
November 9th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Wonderful! Don’t know who is more pleased… baby, man, or your delighted readers (suppresses teary maternal-empathy smile).
November 9th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Yep, Owy is very sooky on this baby!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
yep. i too am torn with what is cooler – the music, the crawling (!) little fella or the big fella all-a-giggle like that!
Huzzah fro progeny!
November 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Jethro is such a clever and beautiful boy. Just like his big brother.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
That’s fantastic about the hip brace, but oh I laughed at his morning antics. Give him a thank you kiss from me will you!?
November 10th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Good news about the brace! And a great mutant spider crawler he is too.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Oh, Dad cacking himself is just so beautiful.
Reminds me of the Dad who was in the rental property next to us for a short time. I didn’t get to meet them, but he used to come out with these ridiculously loud WORRAWORRAWORRAWORRA (channelling Tigger from WTP) you know that kind of Dad noise when they are about to blow the raspberry on the stomach.
So sweet.
November 15th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Oh I love crawling babies, nothing cuter, yours especially.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Ah *smiles*.
“as soon as they start moving their sleeping goes to the dogs because every time their sleep cycle lightens they urgently want to do more sitting/crawling/pulling up, etc. ”
If I go into le bear after she’s slept any period longer than 15 minutes and find she isn’t in the far corner resting on her forearms, facing in reverse, or half standing up rocking, I’m usually astonished.
Go Jethro. You’ll meet your prospective wife on one of our trips to Canby…
November 21st, 2007 at 8:38 pm
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