The Kearneys came by for dinner this evening, and brought their nine-month old son Kayle. Getting together with other families with very young children is always interesting, because everybody always ends up crawling around on the floor and screeching at the top of their lungs. For those of you without children – you may not realize it yet, but you just don’t know how to par-tay.
I always enjoy when Adeia and Kayle are able to play together. They are only just starting to figure out that the other exists, and may perhaps be a separate entity after all. It will usually begin with both being placed in relatively close proximity to one another. After staring at one another for a bit, one of them (usually Adeia, being the female and therefore more social of the two) will then crawl up to the other and start smiling and hitting them. That’s my favorite part, unless of course the hitter is Kayle, in which case I as her father must step in. Once they are separated the screeching begins. I think it’s how they communicate. One screeches and the other responds in kind – it’s beautiful really. Louder and louder, rising higher and higher pitch and timbre…
The night ended when the little ones had to go to bed. The little ones themselves are usually pretty good at letting us know when that time has come. We put them to bed, and then after a (very) short period of time, go to bed ourselves. I don’t know what we did before we had a baby.
to be fair, she does sit on the couch when she’s using the computer.
Adeia too!
I love that nobody addressed Rick’s comment.
. . . and that makes me even more confused, Ben. I thought we were talking about Refe’s tight pants.
D’oh! I can’t believe I just wrote that.
It’s mostly about the beard, though I think it’s the tight pants that kept Refe from sitting on the floor. You need flexibility…tight pants dont’ really offer that.
And Refe- Yes. It was you that lacked the furniture I think, but you had two piano-organ thingees. So you beat us.
Guess what? I just wanted to post stuff.
“To be fair, if you’d had more furniture I might’ve been more readily inclined to sit there instead.”
I think we’d be more re-clined to sit there!