We knew that Bryan knew how to imitate some simple stuff a few weeks ago. But to see him being able to imitate more complicated stuff was just a blast!
Today Bryan was smacking the desk with his palm as usual. So I played a game with him using that: I first gently patted the desk twice and then on the back of his hand, also on the desk with the palm facing down, twice. And then I took his hand to pat the table twice and THEN on MY hand twice. I repeated this cycle two times. Then on the third time, I stopped at taking his hand to pat on mine. But Bryan made the connection of what that pattern was supposed to be and patted the back of my hand twice!
WOW! That’s pretty damn cool!
At first I thought that was a coincidence. So I asked Grace to come by to witness it and showed Bryan what to do again. And he did it again, twice, without me showing him what to do the second time. Grace and I were both ecstatic! Too awesome…
Babies are fun…
Another observation we made of Bryan is that he’s getting pretty damn good at balancing himself in our arms. Just a couple of weeks ago, if we held him in our arms facing us without support on his back, he’d have flapped backwards like a broken bamboo. Today I observed that he’s now fully capable of balancing and counter-balancing to adjust the degree of angle to which I hold him with his head, legs and torso. It’s a very unique opportunity to be able to observe those developments so closely as Bryan grows.
Bryan has also just learned how to turn over… But it’s only a one-way street so far — he can turn from facing up to facing down, but not always the other way around. This can only mean one thing — crawling is not too far behind… Time to childproof the damn apartment…