"I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed!"

As reported earlier, TJ is now mobile. He has two directions, forward and backward. He now has something else - speed.

TJ can cross the floor rather quickly depending on what he is going after. The more he shouldn't have something the faster he goes. For example, if he is trying to get a toy we put out there for him, TJ just lumbers along, stops from time to time to sit up, looks around and gets there when he feels like it. BUT - if he is trying to get to the electronics equipment for the TV/stereo/XboX/TiVo he can move out rather quickly.

Naturally, he is much more fascinated and drawn to the electronics. Or the dogs chew toy. On the latter, Poly is very good natured and rather than growling or snapping, she just goes and picks it up and moves it or lays in front of it.

All of this speed and fascination has led to a new word in TJ's listening vocabulary, "no." The word "no" at the right tone and inflection can stop him in his tracks just long enough to look over his shoulder, ponder, and continue on his travels. I go over, pick him and remove him from the area he should not be in and in the time it takes me to sit back down he is half way back to said area.

(Unfortunately, Poly thinks the "no" is always directed at her and she is getting a little neurotic with all of this behavior modification.)

So in the past week not only did we start to crawl forward, but also crawl forward quickly. Lisa is now going through the mental gymnastics of baby proofing the house. The physical gymnastics will be assigned to me, of course.

Yea!