The Corn Cob Confusion

While I was at my girls weekend, my husband and the children went to see his parents.  They all had a great time and he came back with good stories of how each child did new or different things while they were gone.

The best story by far was about the corn cob my son ate.  While they were getting ready for dinner, my mother-in-law got my son a half cob of corn.  She put one of those sticker/holders in one end for him so he could hold on to it while he tried to eat the slippery corn.

He was working on the cob just fine.  He was holding on to the handle, and trying to eat the other end of the cob.  Because he was eating at the end, he wasn't meeting with much success.

The rest of the family got their plates and sat down.  The adults had two stickers on their cobs, and when they picked up their corn, they ate it sideways, not up and down.   He watched everyone, he had his cob in the air, and he turned it 90 degrees and started eating it from the side.

Then they got him a second sticker and he was able to hold on to both sides at the same time.  He loved the corn, he ate and ate on his cob until he had gotten most of the kernels off.   The age of imitation is a fun age.

The Big Boy Update: Jump jump.  My nephew, Kyle, was preparing to go to a basketball game and did some jumping in the living room.  My son, who is a little too young to jump, but love to immitate, followed him around and tried to jump.  He got the motions down, but he didn't quite make it off the ground.  He likes my nephew a lot.  He brings him balls from the pool table, random video game controllers and remotes.  He also likes drinking his Capri Sun drink.  They're a little pouch you stick a straw into the side.  In the past with anything in the class of juice box drinks, he'd just squeeze it and liquid would come pouring out.  He not only drank the capri sun, he had fun pulling out and putting in the little tiny straw into the little tiny hole.  When it comes to putting small things into small holes, he has great skill.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  So close to crawl.  Still.  But just not there.  She has so much energy, she can get from sit to crawl position and back with ease.  She just can't get moving forward.  I'm not sure if it's because she doesn't move her arms forward, or if she's spending too much tim on her feet with her butt high in the air.  Kneese off the ground make it more challenging to crawl I'm sure.