Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Wiggly Boy

Noah has become very wiggly. He now realizes how mobile he is. He has places to go. He wiggles on the changing table, refusing to be changed or diapered. He wiggles in your lap. He wiggles when he plays. He wiggles when he eats. He wiggles at during bedtime stories. He wiggles during his night night bottle. He wiggles during his breathing treatment. And then he wiggles after we put him down in bed. He is busy discovering things around him and testing his boundaries. Most of the wiggling I can handle. The diapers get a little frustrating. The one real problem is the breathing treatment. It is impossible to keep it on his face. Especially when he takes off the mask part and then throws it across the room. This new wiggly stage gives insight into Noah's personality. He is going to be a hand full. But a cute one! In a rare still moment tonight he looked into my eyes and laughed with delight. It filled my heart and took away a week's worth of stress.
Noah has a new trick. At bedtime and nap time we have a video monitor. (Which Adam and I think is the best piece of baby equipment we own.) Noah has developed an obsession for the camera light. He will pull up on his knees, look straight into the camera, laugh, pull it to him and try to eat it. It is a funny thing to watch.Adam compares it to Blair Witch or early King Kong movies. But then it ends up in is bed or on the floor. Has anyone else had this problem? And if so any ideas?

2 comments:

Beth Goff said...

Well, For the breathing treatments, could you do it while he watches a DVD?? When we have to put on Anderson's "Special shoes" that he has to wear at night he watches Baby Einstein so that he is still... Just a thought!

About the video monitor. Is it able to be mounted to the wall? Ours can (if I could find the hardware) and we might have to do it soon because Anderson pulled his camera down today too. I also thought about getting a wire cover for it. You can get them in the lighting dept. at home depto.

our boys do like to move!! :)

Shea said...

Oh, how I understand. Savannah has been a very strong willer for as long as I can remember actually. I have a stash of toys in the changing table for that very reason. As for the breathing treatment, the DVD idea is good or maybe a toy he never sees except for during the time? I don't know. Also, Savannah grabs her monitor, too. We had to mount it to the wall and pull her bed away from the wall b/c then she grabbed the cord! Hello, dangerous idea there. Anyways, hope that helps at all!