Okay so...people KEEP asking why we've not posted to the blog
since February...well, it started with this.
Isaac threw his paci one frosty February afternoon and
we took the opportunity to nip the end off and "try" to
wean him from it. He got the nipped paci back, proceeded
to stick it in his mouth, whereupon a strange and extremely shocked
pall washed over his little face and THEN he furiously and
rather adamantly declared that his paci was "boke" and then
demanded "new battawies" for it. His frustration and, at times, rage
continued for a few days and his faithful paci, however broken,
was always in hand. After a couple of weeks, his need to carry
it around diminished. Isaac and his beloved paci
officially parted ways.
Little did we know that this milestone would also mark
the beginning of Isaac's unquenchable thirst for exploration and
experimentation. It's taken most of the last two months for us all to
adjust to his comforting friend being gone and to learn how to best
keep Isaac safe while encouraging him to maintain contact
with the floor. He has discovered an inordinate fondness for climbing
and we'd be quite proud of his advanced capabilities if it didn't
FREAK us out so much to find him scaling up a basket of
towels to the top of the washer!
He attempts this activity almost daily, and however much
he proclaims that he is NOT climbing up the side of the washer,
it is a dead giveaway to hear his little hands, knees and feet
SQUEEEEEEEK back down the side of it when we holler,
"ISAAC ARE YOU CLIMBING?"
"No momma!" He's a big fibber.
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