The Duck that Roared
Nov. 21st, 2006 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annissamazingI taught Dominic to roar for Halloween. I thought it would be cute if he could make a lion noise while dressed like a lion. He caught on very well and now makes roaring sounds for every animal. He walked through CVS last week with a spotted horse making "roar" sounds for it. He carries around the blankie with the duck head that Stacey sent and makes it roar too.
He also has taken a liking to the couch. He can't climb up onto it yet, but he certainly tries. He holds his arms up and we haul him up onto the couch then he squirms and wriggles and bounces around until he falls off. Luckily, even when he falls on his face (it's happened once because I didn't move fast enough to catch him) he doesn't actually get hurt. Then he holds his arms up and we start over.
The look of uncertainty on his face when he bumps his head is so funny. He's playing around when he accidentally bumps the back of his head on a wall or table. He freezes, looks at me for a reaction, then either cries or carries on playing depending on the expression on my face. Of course you know he's really hurt when he doesn't look at me at all before he lets out that first wail. Then nothing can console him except his pacifier.
I started giving Dominic a pacifier because I didn't want him to be a thumb sucker. I'm not sure what has happened to the 15 or so binks I've bought, but we find them laying around the house now and then. It's hilarious because if he has one in his mouth already, he'll spit it out to pop the new one in. I'm trying to make pacifiers a nighttime ritual with sporadic "you need to calm down" usage as well. But you'll never catch me out of the house without one. I'd rather be looked down on for letting my child have a pacifier than looked down on because I "let" my child scream in public.
He also has taken a liking to the couch. He can't climb up onto it yet, but he certainly tries. He holds his arms up and we haul him up onto the couch then he squirms and wriggles and bounces around until he falls off. Luckily, even when he falls on his face (it's happened once because I didn't move fast enough to catch him) he doesn't actually get hurt. Then he holds his arms up and we start over.
The look of uncertainty on his face when he bumps his head is so funny. He's playing around when he accidentally bumps the back of his head on a wall or table. He freezes, looks at me for a reaction, then either cries or carries on playing depending on the expression on my face. Of course you know he's really hurt when he doesn't look at me at all before he lets out that first wail. Then nothing can console him except his pacifier.
I started giving Dominic a pacifier because I didn't want him to be a thumb sucker. I'm not sure what has happened to the 15 or so binks I've bought, but we find them laying around the house now and then. It's hilarious because if he has one in his mouth already, he'll spit it out to pop the new one in. I'm trying to make pacifiers a nighttime ritual with sporadic "you need to calm down" usage as well. But you'll never catch me out of the house without one. I'd rather be looked down on for letting my child have a pacifier than looked down on because I "let" my child scream in public.