Foozley now wears his hearing aids for about seventy percent of his waking hours. Now this is probably short of what the experts want him to do but it is so far ahead of anything prior that it just makes him a star.
I had imagined that Finn would walk before you just stood. This was based on the idea that momentum might make the whole Bieng Upright thing easier.
Now and then when Finn is standing holding onto something he will let go and just have a little think. I don’t even think we knows he is standing on his own. Then he will wobble and then he either grabs hold of something or falls over.
This 2003 bottle of wine is for Foozley at some stage down the track, perhaps his 21st birthday, perhaps he can choose when it is more appropriate.
Finn’s speachy was concerned that he should know 20 words by the time he was 15 months old. Not twenty to say but that many words that when we use them he would know what we meant.
Since fifteen months is less than three weeks away we decided we probably needed something more than good intentions. So we made up a list of words, based on the ones the speachy gave us, printed it on that t-shirt transfer paper, and put it on a couple of plain t-shirts.
Now when he goes to childcare they girls there know what words to reinforce for him and we might just get there a little quicker.
Foozley makes all kinds of speech sounds but I am not sure that he could be considered to have a first word as such. We have “mamama” which seems to mean Parent And Things Are Going Badly and “dadada” which is Parent And Things Are Going Well.
With his hearing aids in he has been hearing “no” a bit when he reaches for them. By and large he seems to understand that sometimes even leaves them alone. Just a few minutes Nicky went to play piggies with Foozley and told her “na”.
So I guess that is perhaps his first word.
Yesterday we had a visit from Finn’s hearing service and the speachy was concerned that his speech is not where a regular kid would be for fourteen months.
We have all been a bit slack about hearing aids but this morning they went in and stayed in for over three hours. A couple of times he removed them but I just put more double-sided tape on and they went straight back in.
Just now he has taken them off to go to bed which is fair enough. He is quite tired from being so busy and I am quite tired from keeping him busy.
Foozley has been cranky for a few days now and on Saturday we noticed that his molars on one side are coming through. No wonder he is feeling a bit how’s-your-father.
We left Foozley with Aunty Fee and Uncle Fig last night while we went to the movies. We thought that we had told them all they needed to know about putting Foozley to get but it turned out we had left out a number of things.
So, for the record, here is what anyone needs to know about putting Foozley to bed.
He has 200ml of warm milk at around 7pm.
In the next hour he goes to bed.
If it is normal type temperature he sleeps in his sleeping bag, if it is hot he doesn’t need it.
He has his dummy and a bear or two, blanky bear is especially good.
He will carry on for as much a twenty minutes. This is best ignored.
I think that’s about it, we might print that up for people in future so they don’t have him telling them fibs about how long he can stay up.
They told me at childcare that Foozley was standing against a bookshelf. He then stepped away and stood on his own for five or ten seconds. He then fell on his bum.
it’s all pretty exciting.
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