Two active children

DJ is everywhere these days. He used to cling to me and have to be with me constantly, but now I'm having a hard time keeping tabs on him. I look away for 30 seconds and the next thing I know he's in the bathroom trying to climb into the toilet. I try to keep the bathroom door closed, but somehow it always seems to be left open, and he always wants to play in there. We'll be playing in his room, and I'll be folding his laundry or something, he'll crawl out of the room and go around the corner. I always expect him to come back to find me like he used to, but now I'll have to go looking for him and find him sitting in a pot in the kitchen cupboard with a colander on his head. He's got a thing for hats and sunglasses. I've never known another baby to actually want to wear sunglasses. The other day he insisted on putting on his hat and his sunglasses and then we went on a walk. He wore them the entire time and got lots of oohs and ahs from passersby.
He walks now... sorta. He can take a few steps at a time, but he just doesn't. I'll hold his hand and he'll walk, but if it's more than about two steps, he wants something to hold onto or he'll crawl. He prefers walking to crawling, but he still won't go on his own.
On the other end of things, I am now 19 weeks pregnant. That's nearing the halfway mark. This baby is proving to be far more active than DJ ever was in the womb. At this point with him I could just barely feel him when I sit really still and concentrate hard. This one I can feel all the time already. During dinner, sitting on the floor playing with DJ, at night when I'm trying to sleep, right now as I'm writing this. This is a very active baby. We get to find out the gender next Monday. I'm very excited about that. I'm tired of calling it an it, although I find that I often call it a her when I'm not paying attention. I don't know why, but I'm kinda expecting it to be a girl, not that I would mind another boy at all.

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