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Baby diary: 50 weeks 2 days
Nov. 29th, 2019 09:54 amQuick notes for this week. Alan is babbling a lot, mostly “wa wa” and “bla bla” and variations on “ma.” Sometimes he just moves his mouth at us in order to make conversation, without any noise. XD; My dad taught him to nod and say “unn” for yes, so now he can answer yes-no questions - or so it feels like to the grown-up - though we’ll see if that holds up.
Alan’s pincer grip has progressed: it was pretty late in appearing. Maybe there just isn’t that much dirt to pick up off my mom’s floors... in any case he’s much more interested in prying open drawers and lidded containers. At least he “puts things back” as much as he tosses them out. He even uses opposing fingers to put certain things together, like small toys into his water cup, or a bottle cap back on the bottle. We use colourful stacking plastic wash basins here, as Chinese families do, and Alan rightly decided that these were the proper adult versions of the plastic stacking cups we gave him. So given the opportunity, he “helps out” by stacking the basins, and even the plastic stools small enough to go in the basins, of course first tossing away the laundry etc. that may have been cluttering up said basins.
He’s also begun to “help out” every morning by pushing his own crib from room to room, stopping every few steps to demand applause (waves his hand up and down for “more”).
Alan’s pincer grip has progressed: it was pretty late in appearing. Maybe there just isn’t that much dirt to pick up off my mom’s floors... in any case he’s much more interested in prying open drawers and lidded containers. At least he “puts things back” as much as he tosses them out. He even uses opposing fingers to put certain things together, like small toys into his water cup, or a bottle cap back on the bottle. We use colourful stacking plastic wash basins here, as Chinese families do, and Alan rightly decided that these were the proper adult versions of the plastic stacking cups we gave him. So given the opportunity, he “helps out” by stacking the basins, and even the plastic stools small enough to go in the basins, of course first tossing away the laundry etc. that may have been cluttering up said basins.
He’s also begun to “help out” every morning by pushing his own crib from room to room, stopping every few steps to demand applause (waves his hand up and down for “more”).
