Month: September 2008

Big doings this weekend. First, after weeks of getting up on all fours and leaning purposefully forward, followed by weeks of rolling and wiggling that approximated forward motion, the boy managed an honest-to-goodness crawl. By the end of the weekend he was doing it enough that I was able to shoot a video, although the mesmerizing presence of the camera slowed him down a bit.

Pretty good work for a holiday weekend, but he didn’t stop there. Opa came over on Saturday for a family cookout. Conrad was lying on the rug between him and Jean. I looked down and said, “Say Dada.” He looked up at me and said, “Dada.” We were pretty stunned. Of course he hasn’t done it again since. When I try to get him to do it he gets what I imagine to be a performance-anxiety face, as though he’s thinking, “Daddy wants me to do something but I’m not sure what it is.”

No matter where we put him in the family room, within ten minutes he’ll either be trying to pull the diaper pail over on himself, or under the Pack and Play. We end up doing what we’ve come to call the “baby reset”: picking him up and putting him back down in the center of the rug to start all over again.

Last week he got under the Pack and Play and within a few moments managed to turn the knob that collapsed the whole thing. Pretty impressive considering that I can’t manage to do that when I want it to happen.

He’s big enough now to go in the jog stroller without his car seat. He’s taken the change with his characteristic equanimity. Although this picture makes it look like he’s much too small for it.