About a week ago, Adam showed Jasper a grasshopper in the backyard. Today, when Jasper was about half way down the steps to the backyard, he stops and says. "Too scary. It's too scary." When I ask, "What's too scary?" He says, "The grasshopper. The grasshopper is too scary." He then follows up with this explanation, "It's moving. It's too moving."
Gus is now fascinated by Jasper--whenever Jasper is near, Gus can't take his eyes off him (at least until Jasper sticks his finger in Gus's eye and proclaims, "eye!"). When Jasper's across the room, Gus will just turn and grin at him. And when Jasper makes a scene, that's especially exciting.
Jasper coughs. He says, "cough! (pause) A coffee shop!"
Jasper, describing a dog character in a picture book: "He's a wolf man!"
Looking around the house for his stuffed cat, which he refers to as
"my kitty," (only one of two objects in the world he describes as
"mine"), Jasper comes across it and announces, "I found you!" The other
object is an adult paperback book with an owl on the cover that he
became inexplicably attached to at a used book store recently. Today he
walked into the room with it and announced, "Chapter three! Letters,
letters, 1 2 3 4 5."
Gus is talking a lot more in the last couple days. He has sort of a baritone voice (though still within the range of high-pitched baby voices). He's not saying syllables, just long "ooh" and "ahh" sounds.
Jasper has a toy that comes with 4 plastic shapes (circle, triangle, square, hexagon) and has 4 holes, one in each shape. He picked it up the other day, put in the circle, square, and hexagon, and then thought for a minute and asked, "Where's the other one? Where's the triangle?" And then searched the entire room until he found it and put it in the appropriate hole.
Gus sleeps fine by day--usually puts himself to sleep without crying. Same when he goes to sleep at bedtime. But when he wakes up in the middle of the night and wants to be fed back to sleep, even when it's only been 3 hours and we're planning to feed him for another 4 hours, boy, watch out. We tried letting him cry it out one night this week, but he cried for an hour and a half, finally fell asleep, and woke up 45 minutes later and cried for another half hour. We've retreated and decided to try again next month, when he's 6 months old.
Comments