Pooh Corner

(A delayed post from November)

I had been camping out on the couch all week, battling my first sickness of the cold season, not likely my last either. Stefan was forced to entertain himself quite a bit over this time. He had just started standing while holing a few days ago, and now for the first time, practiced walking back and forth carefully along the coffee table. Now was the time where he'd be free of mom's hovering, although I think I was more excited about that than he was. He grew tired of this game and got himself to the floor (via Mom), and headed over to the fire place to bash something I'd rather him not bash.

A side note: a couple of days ago, mid "pulling up" to stand at the coffee table, he had gotten stuck. He was still not able to completely pull himself up alone yet, which worked out, because the random position in which he was stuck became his crawling pose; arms in a traditional way, one leg folded in front of himself, aligned in an odd perpendicular fashion, the other leg, straight with no knee touching the floor, propelled his weeble body forward from his foot. BASH BASH BASH!!!

Oh yeah BASHING...so Stefan was over at the fireplace doing dangerous things, Sean was on the couch next to me, not getting up to stop him from doing dangerous things, and I was too sick to be alive.

"Stefan, go get Pooh." I moaned. I had no idea where Pooh was, and nothing like that had ever worked to occupy him before, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I knew he knew what "Pooh" was, but don't know if he could see Pooh (although that would make this whole thing even more cool, as object permanence, what is needed to know something exists when it is out of sight, occurs around a year old or later, and he was a little early for that). He crawled away from the fire place and all I knew is that he stopped bashing, but not what he was off to do next.

About a minute later, I heard the high rattle of his favorite stuffed bear. I was ecstatic, he found Pooh! Thank you Stefan...it was the best cold medicine ever:)