Jan 25 2005
How much can you see when you are face down in your own drool?
The other night, after a 3:30 am feeding, I was putting Fuller back in his crib and he dropped his pacifier. So I placed him on his tummy and bent down to pick it up. When I stood up and looked in the crib, Fuller was now on his back, grinning at me in that way that melts your heart.
I remember thinking, in my 3:30 am fog, ?How cute, you rolled over. But this is not the time to be cute. Go back to sleep.? I flipped him back over, gave him his paci and he dozed off.
This morning, I went into his room to get him after a morning nap. Instead of him laying on his tummy, crying into the crib sheet, he was on his back and turned about 90 degrees from where I had placed him at the beginning of his nap.
These two incidents are not accidents. He has flipped over before, but only when he was really mad and flailing his body in protest to the idea that he be in his crib taking a nap. Those other times he didn?t know what he was doing, he was just? moving.
Now, his moving has purpose. He wants to see more of the world, because how much can you see when you are face down in your own drool?
fun, huh? pretty soon our boys will be tearing all over the place. dogs beware.
Your hat is pretty! Nice job! Did you make the scarf? The Cool Aunt would like more photos of the little boy who likes to move around. Oh yeah, some of my students who are coming on the Habitat Trip want to make sure they get to meet the little guy. One even asked if you would let her hold him. She really thinks he’s cute!!
I am working on the scarf (having problems coming up with a pattern that I like) but I will probably finish it tonight at knitwits. As for your friends/ students meeting Fuller, that should be no problem, except remember we won’t be in town when you make your way through Chattanooga to Opelika. But we will be here when you make your way back to Ohio.
And we will work on the pictures thing. Do you mean real pictures or just web ones?
both would be nice
“…because how much can you see when you are face down in your own drool?”
There are frat boys all across American who are better qualified to answer this question than we are. In any case, so it begins. The days when you could put the baby down like a book and come back to find him just as you left him are pretty much drawing to a close.
Ready… set… RUN!!!!