Amazing Changes

They say that baby brains are like sponges.  They're learning constantly from the moment they are born.  First they are adjusting to day and night and just being out of the womb.  Then they learn to smile and use bring their hands together and then they sit up, crawl and then walk.  It's been 20 months of constant development, yet some of the more recent speech and motor skills development seem to be bigger.  They probably aren't, but as humans, speech and communication are so important, that perhaps we just value these developments more even though we shouldn't.

I'm not sure what is going on here...maybe they're making play-do?

Babies probably learn the concept of object permanence closer to when they are 6 months old, but now Baby CP can also remember things clearly that happened more than a day ago or people that he saw days ago.  For example, this weekend he was playing with his uncle's stepladder.  We told him not to and he would continue to try to do it with a mischievous giggling as he tried to get to it.  His uncle took the stepladder home when they left.  About 30 minutes to an hour later, I saw Baby CP take off for the hallway where the stepladder used to be with a troublemaking grin.  I knew what he was after - and then I heard "uh oh...where go?"  Haha...foiled!  One day, Baby CP saw a toy ambulance that looks just like his cousin's and started to say his cousin's name, but he hadn't seen his cousin's ambulance for at least a few weeks. 


While cousin Junior was over, I saw Baby CP walk near him and then run away to the basement door laughing.  He did this a couple times and then started saying his cousin's name from the door.  After the first couple times, I realized, he is trying to get his cousin to play a chasing game with him!  I suspect he must play this game with someone at daycare, because he runs to that specific space like it's "base".  We didn't teach him that.

Baby CP has been singing with us for a while - if we stop at the end of a line to a song, he can fill it in - but lately he's been singing on his own and sometimes close to in tune, so I don't think he's tone deaf.  =)  Last night, he kept singing "Thomas Train....Thomas Train....Thomas Train"  over and over again until we all fell asleep.

I'm sure there are a lot of other cool things he's been learning that I just can't think of off the top of my head.  He impresses me with something new almost everyday.