Let
the baby proofing continue! Now that our son is becoming increasingly mobile
and adventurous, it is inevitable that he is going to bump his head, lose his
balance, get stuck in his toy box, or fall of his rocking monkey. It is just
the kinds of things that we expect to happen as he gets a little older and
which is why babies and toddlers are designed to bounce. While you can tell
that it hurt, usually just from the sound, rarely is it anything that leads to
prolonged crying or whining. “Shake it off” is usually all that needs to be
said.
Most
of the time we are all usually laughing about the bumps and knocks that we hear
reverberating from under the table. Of course, there have been those moments
when you look at his shocked face and say “that looked like it hurt.” This is
usually followed by the boo boo lip and watery eyes. Crying seems to be
optional. These are the times when we can’t help but give him the ‘poor baby’
look and, just in case, immediately go into freak out prevention mode.
That
being said, there are some odd moments here and there when he seems to be
rather entertained by the situation and after recovering from the first
instance he tries to do the same thing. However, he will always go about it a
little differently to see if he can achieve the desired result that he was
previously pursuing without the potential bump or getting stuck. This is was
exactly what happened when he tilted a little too far when reaching into his
toy box one night. Second time around, the counterbalance was much better and
he had his hand on the side just in case.
And
all of this is, so far, only from the crawling and standing around the house and contorting
into some of the smaller spaces in his play room. It should be quite the
interesting increase in instances once he starts walking, and running, around
the house. I am curious to see what phases him in his next phase and what are
the things that will simply be shaken off before resuming progress.
Additionally, we will be facing a clever little toddler who is already starting
to figure out the baby gates and is well on his way to solving the door knob
problem (this is with the safety encapsulation on it). This could be very
interesting in addition to being painful to watch (and hear)!
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