This has got to be one of the absolute cutest things Gavin has done yet. I posted recently about how he will do something like pull the printer off the printer stand (it's only 6" off the floor, so no big deal) then look up with a look of alarm on his face. Well, now in addition to the look of alarm, he purses his lips and says "Oooooooooo! Ooooo! oooooo!" It is so freaking cute I could just gobble him up.
And the best part is that he does it not only when something surprises him, but when something frightens him, when he is uncertain about something (like the vacuum cleaner, for instance.. more on this in a moment), when he is interested in something, when he wants to touch/hold/eat something he sees, and so on. So basically all the time.
The vaccum cleaner has become a source of much Oooo-oooo--ooooo-ing lately. He's been unsure of it for several weeks now. He sits in the middle of the floor and looks back and forth between it and me. Part of him wants to explore this fascinating object, but you can tell that the rest of him wants to run far away from it. Or crawl. Or, preferably, be picked up by Mommy and taken far away from it.
This week he nearly took his first steps to get away from it. Maybe I should run the vacuum more often. Not to get a cleaner house, no... to hurry my son along with the walking. Of course. Not that I am honestly in a hurry for him to walk, because after walking comes running and then I'll never catch up with him!
But, come to think of it, there will be two advantages to Gavin learning to walking. First, I might start losing weight again. Still ten pounds to go to get to my pre-pregnancy weight (nine months on, nine months off, my foot! Bah!). Second, I can finally get the boy some shoes. His feet are so large that none of the pre-walker shoes on the market fit him. So he goes around a lot of the time with one or no socks on, and let me tell you that in the middle of January this is not a good thing. Tends to get me some mighty nasty looks in the middle of the grocery.
Posted by allison at January 22, 2005 08:06 PM