walk-about

[gfrancie]

Hey internets, wasn't that fun?


Senor Onion will be eight months old on Saturday and he is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more mobile than he should be. (at least more than I was expecting) He can't walk on his own but with the help of a chair or a coffee table he gets around and is constantly practicing. It is like I am living with a little monkey. I turn my back for two seconds and he somehow manages to migrate six feet. He lets me cuddle him a bit when he wants to nurse or is very tired but the rest of the time he is on the go. He slides out of my lap and wants to stand and walk. Today I watched him hold onto a chair and walk along the edge and then try and figure out how to get from the gap of one chair to another. He slipped down and then got himself up again to the next chair.

I was reading Dr. Sears and he/they said something interesting about early walkers,
While there is no definite profile of early walkers, they tend to be high-need babies who early on left the lap stage and squirmed out of infant seats. Body type may also affect the age of walking. Lean babies tend to walk earlier. Early and impulsive walkers are often more accident-prone than their more cautious walking mates

Completely my kid. Ack.

He has also learned to say Da-Da. Mr. Jenner is very pleased with this.

I mostly write all of this down so I can remember it later when things seem hazy.

Comments

[lilgrrllost.livejournal.com]

My middle son Jeremy was an early walker. He was fully walking on his own at 8 months. He was a very thin baby, from birth. We still say he's a pipsqueak. And he is totally high needs and always has been. And he's certainly accident prone. Thankfully we've only had to have his head glued shut once so far. lol

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I feel like I should get Alex a helmet.

[serorobele.livejournal.com]

One of my mom's friends has three boys who were all early walkers and have no fear of anything. In her Christmas letter every year, she doesn't list their achievements, rather, she lists the hospital visits that they made:
January: Bobby felt like it was a good idea to leap from the top of the refrigerator to the couch. He didn't make it and twelve stitches later we were back home.
February: Jimmy and Tommy (ok, not real names) got in a fight WHILE climbing a tree. Between the two of them, eight stitches and a broken arm.
etc.
I guess the point is to keep a sense of humor about it, which it sounds like you're doing just fine. :)

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Has the hospital named a wing after them yet?

[sallysimpleton.livejournal.com]

Ahh, just a few days ago, after telling me about a Sledding Incident, my boyfriend's mother was saying he skipped the crawling stage and went straight to walking. The doctor told her to try to make him crawl, yet he couldn't be contained. He was certainly accident-prone through his youth, if various barely-visible scars are any indication. She channeled his energy into soccer, he ended up traveling all over Germany as a kid on his city's youth team. In his case, a good thing. Nowadays, his geek-work doesn't entail many opportunities for accidents. Fortunately.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You really can't make a kid crawl. A baby's will is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more extreme than an adult's.
I may just build him a jungle gym and rename him Tarzan.

[incogneato.livejournal.com]

Lucas pretty much skipped crawling and took his frist unassisted steps at 9 months (oddly enough, the day after we purchased a video camera).

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

What a polite child.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

gives new meaning to "roly-poly"

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

maybe he is the next step on the evolutionary ladder.