2003-05-19-11:27 p.m.
Ro baby and I draw quite a bit. He likes to watch me draw as much as doing it himself. Every time I write Ro baby's name down on a paper, he grabs the pen and fills up the O with dots. It's so cute. It kind of looks like he spells his name, R. Chocolate Chip Cookie. E. N.

I speak tee-twee
Ro baby speaks his own little language, which sounds very much like he's saying tongue twisters. Today, it sounded like he said, "Tea Three Sweet Tea Tree", which sounds more like "teethweesweeeeetteatweee". That's the type of thing he says all the time -- but with different vowel sounds.

The language differences in babies is amazing. I met this one boy (18 months), who knows lots of words but doesn't talk much at all. So, he says Ball ....... Points at the ball and then that's it for 10 minutes until he says Ball or Light or something again. He doesn't jabber at all. He speaks English at a rate of 6 words per hour. Meanwhile, Ro baby's talked a blue streak and given us a treatise on sweet tea trees but we more or less don't understand any of it. He speaks tee-twee at a rate of 400 words per hour.

gigglebox
Ro baby has been such a gigglebox lately. It's very fascinating to me because he spends time actively looking for something to make him laugh to the point of grabbing my hand and putting it on one of his tickle spots, so I'll tickle him and he can laugh. It seems like everything amuses him so much right now. He's laughing more at movies. He laughs at us. He laughs at ants crawling down the sidewalk. He's just all about laughing.

I just realized that most adults don't really do this -- meaning they don't actively look for the small things in life that are funny and pleasant. Sure, adults laugh if something funny happens but they don't systematically seek out things that make them laugh. Hmmmmm ---

Robin's egg
Ro baby ran up to me in the playground and dropped a small blue egg in my hand. I thought it was a piece of Easter candy but it was the real deal, a robin's egg. Although sad about finding a stray egg, I was impressed at his delicate handling. I'm not sure where the egg came from. All I can think is that the robin laid the egg on top of a piece of playground equipment because there are no trees near the equipment at all. So, I have a new find for my large collection of natural objects. (I collect bones, sticks, rocks, leaves, etc.)

Robins have been a high point lately. They seem to be everywhere, and they're all fat and cheerful from all the worms drummed up from the rains. They're pretty fearless too because Ro baby runs after them and they just hop along staying out of his reach but not flying away either.

Minister of funny walks
I had these visions of getting really fit by walking and pushing Ro baby in the jogging stroller. Alas, this has never come to pass because Ro baby hates strollers. I'm allowed to stroll him to the playground but that's about it, otherwise he walks everywhere and sometimes pushing his own stroller. Most of the time we just don't bother with it though.

Although, Ro baby likes walking immensely. You never HOW he's going to walk. Some days he runs down the sidewalk and other days, it can take a long time to get from A to B because Ro baby gets into experimental walking. Sometimes it's step - squat - step - squat. It amazes me how long he can walk in the squatted position like a duck. He must really have some thigh muscles. Other times he goose steps down the sidewalk. He also likes to do the one foot on the curb and one foot on the ground walk. His walking habits always remind me of that Monty Python skit, the Ministry of Funny Walks (or something like that). I should get him a little bowler hat.

Whew --- that's all my stored up ro baby snippets. I'm crushed with work and just haven't had time to update as much as I would like.

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