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[metaphortunate]

The awesome:

He's obsessed with eyeballs. I took him to our small local aquarium this weekend with laurenhat and he cracked her up all day because every single fish, he had to point out that it had eyes. He has to point out that I have eyes. That he has eyes. If it has eyes, he will let you know about it.

He's getting more communicative - and helpful! - by the day. He can help put things away now when I ask. He is just so goddamned adorable. Yesterday on the bus we were sitting next to a woman who had a middle-schooler and he was looking in my eyes and repeating words back to me and grinning and I saw her succumb to baby fever. Some unsuspecting dude came home last night to a wild-eyed woman announcing "I checked and we can afford another kid. Take off your pants." Junebug, it's not fair!


The not so awesome:

Around food, mostly. In particular, if I'm eating something he doesn't like. Because I get him a plate full of nice things he likes. And then I sit down to eat my breakfast of, say, yogurt and blackberries. Well, obviously he wants to eat what I'm eating. So I put a yogurt-covered blackberry on his plate. Which he stares at as though I had just served him a live cockroach. Then he starts begging for more of my food. Because I am eating with every evidence of enjoyment! Clearly I cannot just be eating that dreck I just put on his plate! Mama is sneaking something delicious and she is not sharing! So then the meltdown. It's very frustrating.

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[cahn]

Awwwww! Also, being obsessed with eyeballs totally beats being obsessed with nipples, like E was (and still is, though less so now) in terms of being Okay for Public Consumption. :) (She was still cute and people just laughed! But I was still embarrassed!)

[metaphortunate]

Hee! Maybe that comes later? I mean, right now he points out eyes when he sees them. Pointing out things that aren't visible is probably another level of development in abstract thinking.

[lovepeaceohana]

It was penises for mine. Hell, it's still penises for mine. /o\

I also completely relate to the food-related meltdowns. Mine are grown past that, now, although I still get questioned about the things that go on my plate, particularly if they are things the kids readily identify as something they do not personally appreciate. "Well then it's a good thing you're not eating it" does not seem to particularly deter them either - they're not usually satisfied unless I confirm that yes, this is a thing they do not like, and furthermore I must reassure them that they are not going to be made to eat it.

[metaphortunate]

See above: it'll probably be penises later, when he's developed enough to be able to think about body parts that aren't visible at the moment.

[khedron]

The grass is always greener on mama's plate.

[kalmn]

That is how Aglet had lobster bisque for dinner last night. He liked it, though!

[metaphortunate]

That is certainly how the Junebug has eaten all the soup he has ever eaten! I give him some of his own in a little bowl, and he plays with the spoon and pours it on the rest of his food. :P

We took him to a seafood restaurant after the aquarium - I can't go to aquariums without getting hungry for seafood - and he ate shrimp and crab cakes for the first time. Devoured them. Yay!

[jesse_the_k]

Had a roommate who worked in marine biology. Loved the ocean and, he said, really like being able to snack on his research.

[loligo]

Isn't it such a fascinating age? I mean, kids are intuitive scientists from the moment they're born, but a lot of the stuff they figure out in that first year is so basic that it's kind of hard to get excited about. ("Yes, that hand *is* attached to you! Yes, objects *do* fall down!") Once they get into that second year, though, they are figuring out all kinds of stuff, and the flawed hypotheses that they eventually discard are often more interesting than the right answers.

[metaphortunate]

SO FASCINATING.

Okay, they've all been fascinating so far. I remember vividly one particular evening when I watched him make the connection that a noise happening was connected to him moving the hand that a toy rattle was in. It was incredibly exciting, actually. But communication is such a wonderful development!

[laceblade]

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[metaphortunate]

Cool! Hi. :)