Eidan the Barbarian
It’s hard to believe that Eidan is 8 months olds already. His two front bottom teeth came in a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday he finally figured out crawling. He spent a few days in frustration, going backwards when he meant to go forwards, but now he has all his gears properly aligned and has achieved forward motion. When Kai learned to crawl, I frequently played a game with him where he would start crawling towards me from one side of the room, while I was on the other side, making a tower with a set of stacking cups. The goal was for him to reach me and knock it down before I finished. Eidan is now playing this game with me, and he laughs himself silly every time he knocks down the cups.
He’s at a stage where nothing makes him happier than spreading chaos and destruction. He used to play quietly and gently with his toys, but how he spends some of his playtime seeing how much noise he can make banging them together, or how far he can throw them. He’s still into roaring, as I mentioned before, and now he has also taken to growling. Sometimes I can hear him growling upstairs when I come home, and the standing joke is for me to ask if some feral animal has snuck into the house.
Having said all that, he’s also very sweet. He’ll give you a little hug and rest his head on your shoulder when he’s happy to see you.
We were worried about him over the past week, as he suddenly started refusing his baby food, and would only drink from his bottle. We kept trying to feed him several time every day, but at most we could get him to eat only a few bites. Last night we finally figured out the reason: he just doesn’t want to eat baby food anymore - he wants regular food. He had a big dinner last night, consisting of sliced bananas, yogurt, chicken noodle soup, and eggplant. He was so thrilled that we finally figured it out that he burst into gleeful laughter several times during the meal.
I think I forgot to mention previously that he had a good checkup last month. Although he was well below average for weight (20th percentile), he was at 80th percentile for height. Hmm, tall and thin… I wonder where that comes from?
April 15th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Hi Michael, Maria, Kai & Eidan: I am delighted to read about your activities and direct and successful communications with Eidan (as you had with Kai). I feel that those methods are incredibly unique and the result of much understanding, intelligence and patience and tremendos amounts properly channeled work. Them is the unique and essential ingredients, together with superior heredity, for superkai & dittoeidan.
I feel that most parents would give tehir eye teeth to have that knowledge. Ergo, a book with DVD and a possible TV program–all with appropriate protections.
Love to all, Edward