It has been a super big week here and it's only Tuesday! What's been going on? Well, on Monday Lucas finally made his first move forward. For weeks now he's been able to do a "push up," and then, more recently, he learned to get up on his hands and knees. As we've noticed, he, like most babies, learns things in batches. He practiced getting up on his hands and knees everytime he could. When we put him down on the rug to play with his toys, he popped up on his hands and knees, when he woke up in bed with us he popped up on his hands and knees, and, not suprisingly, when we crept in to his room in the morning, assuming he'd be still sleeping, there he was, on his hands and knees! Next came his rocking motion back and forth, which was soon followed by the ability to scoot backward and rotate around like the hands of a clock. Despite what thrilled us as amazing progress, this left Lucas frustrated - he could move away from the objects he wanted to badly, but not toward them! But finally it happed, finally he managed to scoot himself forward. He laughed, we laughed... and then we grabbed the remote control away before he erased our recording of the Mad Men season premier. Check out the little guy in action:
So what do parents do when their baby learns to move on his own, thus ending the placid "potted plant" stage? Throw the little guy in jail of course! Mom, being the genius she is, had already purchased a gate system. Dad popped it up in the form of an hexagonal "play pen" and voila, Lucas was sent to the slammer. As all parents know, this is a total win-win situation: Lucas is free to roam around a safe environment and we can actually step away far enough to, say, make a quick dinner. Here's the little guy in jail - who knew a jailbird could look so happy?
Finally, auntie Hedda and uncle Leonard joined us for dinner on Tuesday, and brought out Lucas' fists of fury. Check out the karate action - I think it's a chest block! Mom's gonna have her hands full...
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