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.
You had non-shattered eardrums, apparently. :0)
Um, you basically did the exact same thing your babies do. You laid on the floor, and communicated with each other, and those around you.
Ok, I’ll be fair, it was really only Susan on the floor…..
I’m confused.
To be fair, if you’d had more furniture I might’ve been more readily inclined to sit there instead.
We had plenty of furniture. Just not alot of room. I mean, what more do you need, we had three stools. a couch, a giant chair, and an arm chair.
What else COULD we have had?!
And to clarify- We used to tease Susan, and my husband, Aaron, because whenever we hung out at our house, or the Shaffers, they’d end up sprawled all over the floor. Not sure why, maybe we were all just really tired?
Humility. It was humility.
Susan, I think that we were the ones without any furniture.
Yeah and when we came over to your place we’d all cram on your one couch.
we now have three couches and two arm chairs in the living room, one couch in the playroom, a daybed in the prayer room and 8 chairs in the dining room.
Susan still prefers the floor. Adeia prefers it too. Like mother like daughter.