leaps and bounds!
Oct. 1st, 2004 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanWow, Isaac is really just learning new stuff every day. It's so crazy and fun to watch. He's doing especially well with language, picking up new words every day and constantly asking what things are called, etc. Yesterday he finally started saying "more" when eating. I hope that one will stick! ;) He also brings me a water bottle when he's thirsty or a box of crackers when he's hungry.
And yesterday as I was taking him out of the car at my mom's place, I was telling him that we were going to see gramma, and suddenly his face lit up and he went, "mah mah!" which apparently is his name for gramma. Then when he actually saw her he said it again. But that was exciting because he connected the word that I said with the person it represents, and tried to repeat the word. Yay!
Speaking of which, I'm really so happy that Isaac has such a great relationship with his gramma. I never really knew my grandparents when I was a kid, because we lived in Boston and they lived in first Cleveland and then L.A. So they were definitely the "see them once or twice a year" type of grandparents, which makes it hard to forge a real relationship. Not that it's their fault; they loved us and enjoyed seeing us and sent us presents and so forth (and they weren't the ones who moved away! that was my mom's choice), but it isn't the same. I'm so happy that Isaac has a grandmother he gets to see several times a week, and spend at least one entire day with -- she watches him every Thursday for about eight hours. And he obviously adores her; when he catches sight of her he gets all excited, just like when he catches sight of me. I love that! It makes me so happy to see them so close. :)
Anyway, the downside of all the cognitive development he's doing these days is that it's disrupting his sleep. It has been REALLY hard to get him to sleep lately and a couple of times I've resorted to letting him cry himself to sleep, which I hate :( but when I've tried everything else and nothing works, what can I do? (It's not like I deliberately say "now I'm going to let him cry until he falls asleep" -- I usually say "now I'm going to let him cry for 5 minutes and then go back in" and then he falls asleep within the 5 minutes.) Everyone says this stuff gets better once the developmental things calm down, so I'm hopeful. He's soooooooo close to being able to walk on his own, and that's a major milestone that can cause sleep issues.
But basically, aside from the sleep deprivation, things are going quite well. It's endlessly fascinating to watch him learning all this new stuff, and it's SO COOL to hear him saying actual recognizable words! :)
And yesterday as I was taking him out of the car at my mom's place, I was telling him that we were going to see gramma, and suddenly his face lit up and he went, "mah mah!" which apparently is his name for gramma. Then when he actually saw her he said it again. But that was exciting because he connected the word that I said with the person it represents, and tried to repeat the word. Yay!
Speaking of which, I'm really so happy that Isaac has such a great relationship with his gramma. I never really knew my grandparents when I was a kid, because we lived in Boston and they lived in first Cleveland and then L.A. So they were definitely the "see them once or twice a year" type of grandparents, which makes it hard to forge a real relationship. Not that it's their fault; they loved us and enjoyed seeing us and sent us presents and so forth (and they weren't the ones who moved away! that was my mom's choice), but it isn't the same. I'm so happy that Isaac has a grandmother he gets to see several times a week, and spend at least one entire day with -- she watches him every Thursday for about eight hours. And he obviously adores her; when he catches sight of her he gets all excited, just like when he catches sight of me. I love that! It makes me so happy to see them so close. :)
Anyway, the downside of all the cognitive development he's doing these days is that it's disrupting his sleep. It has been REALLY hard to get him to sleep lately and a couple of times I've resorted to letting him cry himself to sleep, which I hate :( but when I've tried everything else and nothing works, what can I do? (It's not like I deliberately say "now I'm going to let him cry until he falls asleep" -- I usually say "now I'm going to let him cry for 5 minutes and then go back in" and then he falls asleep within the 5 minutes.) Everyone says this stuff gets better once the developmental things calm down, so I'm hopeful. He's soooooooo close to being able to walk on his own, and that's a major milestone that can cause sleep issues.
But basically, aside from the sleep deprivation, things are going quite well. It's endlessly fascinating to watch him learning all this new stuff, and it's SO COOL to hear him saying actual recognizable words! :)
