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January 04, 2007
Moving beyond the literal and the now
Gustav's brain is on the grow...on the stretch...on the busy.
He's starting to ask about things that will happen in the future: Where are we going?
He's starting to make declarations about the future:
(after explaining to Gus that John is not in school right now, but is working at Orbitz)
Gus: "Someday, I will work at Orbitz."
Me: "Oh yeah?"
Gus: "I will have an Orbitz."
Me: "What will your Orbitz look like?"
Gus: "School."
He's starting to display immense amounts of empathy:
(John on the couch last night, feeling under the weather)
(Gus has covered John with a blanket and the pants from his own pajamas. He has also put stuffed animals next to John, and keeps kissing him and turning off the pretend light.)
Gus: "Mama, shhhh! John is sleeping."
He is starting to play with sentences and words: He came up with a version of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" where the last word of every verse started with the letter "B".
He's starting to make connections about our family:
Gus: "I just farted. I fart like Papa."
John: "Yes, you do."
Me: (laughing, laughing, laughing, nodding my head)
Gus: "Mama, you don't fart."
Me: (laughing, laughing) "You're right!"
Eli is also catching on to this language business. Just tonight he shook his head when I tried to give him some food, then he signed 'more' when he wanted more crackers. To end the meal, he suddenly signed 'finished', then immediately signed 'milk'. He gets so excited when I understand him.
And the smile... the smile is totally turned on now. We used to have to work for a smile, but the advent of teeth has created the smiley-ist boy ever. Eli is crawling all over the place, surfing the furniture with ease, and is starting to stand up on his own for seconds at a time.
We just came back from a trip to my Mom's house, which we haven't been to in two years! I will get the pictures up this weekend. So wonderful to see some dear friends. I have to say, my brain still hasn't caught up with the reality of being a mother, particularly when I am in Council Bluffs. I wasn't forgetting my children or anything, it's just that my identity there is of a daughter, of a school-goer, of a dependent, not as the mother of children at Grandma's house. Big big disconnect in my brain.
Posted by janna at January 4, 2007 11:54 PM