Brilliant Glimpses of an Ornery Toddler

If you plop Jacob somewhere, you can be sure he will be pretty much in the same spot until you move him again.

You may remember the saga of Jacob learning to sit unassisted. He is now a master at sitting unassisted but it requires a big person putting him in a sitting position first. Getting into sitting position? ...well.... that's another story. As is crawling (oh the horror), scooting, rolling or any other lateral movement. He has taken to being vertical but only when someone much bigger than him is holding both hands. So our toddler that doesn't toddle... or can't even sit up by himself, is limited in how much trouble he can get into.

All in his own time, we know.

One day recently, Grandma figured out how to turn Jacob's sitting up practice (we practice a lot) into a game by having him fall into a big fluffy pillow in the right position to then be able to push himself back up correctly only to fall into the pillow again. Over and over. Fun. We have been continuing that game with pillows, then a thickly folded blanket, then a thinly folded blanket.... Oh we are getting so close to pushing off the floor by ourself with this game! But still to date, never without big people around physically prompting or cheering.

Then this morning...

I left our stationary toddler laying down on the living room floor playing with a toy - a living room with an unsuspecting stack of catalogs neatly stacked on an ottoman (well out of reach of his horizontal spot on the floor) while I went down to the basement to deal with laundry.

I came back upstairs to this...

It is no exaggeration to say I almost cried.

Oh baby boy! Bring on the ornery toddler, we are so ready.

 

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