New developments on the baby front: our nearly nine month-old (tomorrow) twins, Adin and Miriam pass milestones almost every day. Tonight, I was putting Jonah, our 4 1/2 year old to sleep and Janis called up to me: “You’ve got to come down here. Adin is climbing the stairs!” We both know Adin as the boldest, brashest and most foolhardy of the twins in terms of courting danger. He wants to go everywhere and do everything and he does it all with great gusto. He’s just begun to pull himself to a standing position by grabbing onto the couch (or our legs). But I never expected he would begin climbing the stairs now.
It makes you wonder at a baby’s development. They can barely pull themselves up. So what incipient thought twinkles inside that baby mind when he sees the stairway and says: “Piece-a-cake?” How does a baby go from one level of development and then all of a sudden do something they’ve never come close to doing before? It’s really quite amazing (and scary if you’re contemplating all the necessary precautions you’re going to have to make for this wild desperado). Janis predicts he’ll walk by the time he’s 10 months! Too early for worried daddy.
The Dog Who Hates Cursing
Our dog Gede is one of the most lovely creatures you could hope to meet. My wife and I’ve felt guilty at how little special attention we can afford to show her now that we have 3 kids. We worry a little about it and feel a bit guilty.
But she worries about us too. Last night, I was facing some particularly hairy blog problems both technical and human (idiot anti-circumcision activists whose forum somehow induced them to assault my blog over a post I wrote about my son’s Jewish brit milah–ritual circumcision). A few times last night I muttered the F word under my breath. As soon as I did, Gede came ambling over to me with her tail wagging and shoved her snout into my knee. I could tell she was really concerned for me and it frightened her to see me upset (I really wasn’t too upset internally–she just reacted to the word and how I said it). Amazing creatures dogs are–aren’t they?
