Hey, what happened? Where did you go?! (This is the voice of
you, dear reader.)
Max – our baby – went from being perfectly happy in my, or
other family member’s, arms, just kind of tagging along, to wanting to grab
everything we grab (typing with him became impossible), then quickly developed
a desire to reach further, and move around by ways of commando crawl, exploring
everything in his way. Very soon after that, within a couple of weeks, he moved
on to a standard baby crawl (so much more effective!), which required the
family to deep clean the house (he has a particular taste for eating lint) and
baby proof every corner of every room (his first real crawl ever consisted of a
very straight and determined trip to an electrical outlet, fingers ready). That
took us a few days, at least, and involved, among other measures, a trip to
IKEA.
Here we are, and I am trying to adjust to life with a
crawling baby – for the fourth time. You’d think I’d have it down by now,
wouldn’t you? However, this is our first house in the US, and every baby is
slightly different. Max is a happier baby in general than most babies I’ve ever
met, but he is definitely also just a normal baby at this stage: as they start
being able to move around – remove themselves physically from the mother - at
the same time they become more needy, physically displaying separation anxiety.
This is the stage when everything you ever needed to do or
wanted to do on any given day have to be done during nap time. I call it the “Do-it-all-at-nap-time”
stage. Of course it’s impossible. So some things are left neglected, for a
while. I’ve learned that I have time for one – 1 – personal, not necessarily
vital to my physical survival, activity, and I have chosen exercise over
blogging. Sorry, folks. This doesn’t mean that I don’t want to write, or that I
won’t. Just that I will exercise first and then blog. And whaddayaknow? Today I
managed both.
*Disclaimer: At least one child, possibly a baby, and probably
many household items were harmed during the recording of these accounts.
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