September 23, 2004
multi-skilling
Jacob took four steps by himself last week, just getting it in within that crucial first-birthday milestone. The other day he did it again. The last few days he has been doing it several times a day, very casually, with nothing more than a smug-pleased-with-himself-look to mark each sucessful wobble through space.
But this morning he really let loose with a development in fine-motor-skills that will leave them breathless at the Consultatiebureau next month. I was tying his shoes, (he can't do THAT yet) and looked up at my gorgeous civilized well-brought-up-son, to discover he was picking his nose! He has a cold at the moment so there is plenty of material to work with. He only rarely misses his nostril and sticks his finger in his eye. But its the intense concentration and satisfaction on his face that floors me!
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