If you say "yaaay!" anywhere in Sophie's earshot, she'll look for you, grin hugely, and start clapping -- every now and then looking at you with grave concern, as if she's not clapping in the proper way. She is as regular and dependable in this regard as a Swiss brass monkey might reasonably be expected to be, if the Swiss were to make brass monkeys.
She will also open tupperware to see what's inside, but then -- I think out of a sense of completeness -- replace the lid with stern determination, clearly aware that extracting whatever is inside is not nearly as important as returning the tupperware to its pristine, sealed state. She does not, however, burp it first.
She does not crawl. She does, however, do this bizarre sort of butt-scooting, corkscrewing motion that eventually gets her where she wants to go, albeit considerably more slowly and with significant effort. I theorize that she does this for artistic reasons.
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As a former butt scooter, I'm going to have to agree. I did both, though, depending on my mood.
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I just realized that I have no clue how I got around as a child. For some reason (Probably the same reason we have no more than 10 pictures of me between ages 6 and 21), my mother has chosen not to tell me what I was like as a baby.
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Hmm. I can remember not knowing how to stand upright, but I don't have any memory of actually learning how to. Weird.
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My nephew was a roller - he would orient himself correctly, and then roll to the target. He was much faster at that than he ever was at crawling.
And Tom, the look of determination is so cute on kids that age. Whatever they are doing is clearly the most important thing in the whole world ever.
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Whenever Ryan sees a gator, he raises both hands over his head. I'm not sure where he picked that up.
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Bob, didn't you know that if you freeze, you're OK. Gators are attracted to movement.
Besides, ff he learned to do the chop whenever he saw a Native American he would be deemed politically incorrect. I think this is for the best.
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Zotto, that's really interesting. I have memories from that time period too, but I don't have any that really focus on it. I do have memories that focus on crawling and scooting. I thought that scooting was a better way to get around, generally.
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I did the butt-scooting thing, and my sister did the commando-crawl. She eventually moved up to regular crawling, but I didn't learn to crawl until after I'd already learned to walk.
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Only next time, could you name your thread something with "art" in it? Would've been much easier to search for. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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My brother and I both did the butt-scoot before we learned to crawl. One of my friends, however, when learning to walk, would crawl to the middle of the floor (where there was no furniture) THEN try to pick herself up and walk.
This actually explains a lot about her.
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Oh, we've got all sorts of weird food here. Had some tomatoes that went bad one time...STOLE my CAR. O_O
*ba-dum-bum-pssh*
Oh and riv...that was a distuuuuurbing link. *laugh*
Noeman: Isn't that weird? It's like that for me for a lot of things. I remember NOT knowing how to do something, but I never quite recall the moment when I actually learned it. I have vivid memories of trying to decipher how to spell words, but no recollection of when I actually learned to. Strange.
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