I’m sure all kids have a particular “mood” pattern, but Luke’s is something I never encountered before. He is usually really happy or really upset. There isn’t a “happy medium”. Over the years we have found ways to make Luke happy when he is upset, the only other option is to let him continue crying/screaming. Which is definitely hard on the ears.
There are days where it seems like nothing works and I wind up shutting all the doors in the hall, putting up the gate, and leaving him at the far end of the hall to scream. When he calms down, which may be a half hour later, I’ll let him out. Some days it doesn’t work and he would scream for hours if I let him. A couple times when I did this I would place Luke at the far end of the hall by the bathroom, and within about 5 minutes I would notice his screams getting louder. When I go check, Luke is no longer by the bathroom but right by the gate. The funny part is that he must of scooted his way to the gate on his back while screaming. He may be really upset, but he isn’t so upset that he won’t move to make sure I still know he is upset. I’ve only had to resort to this four times, so I guess that isn’t so bad.
Most time we can get him happy by bouncing balls or rolling those soft rubber balls into him. He will usually laugh like it is the funniest thing in the world.
Well the other night when my husband took Luke to the basement to work on his walking, I heard a BOOM, BOOM, BOOM and then a loud laugh from Luke. When I went to investigate I found my husband bouncing one of those 12 inch in diameter rubber balls up the stairs. He threw it as far up as it would go and then let it bounce back down and Luke thought it was so funny. Luke laughed even harder when the ball bounced off of him. You would think he would cry, but no…our son laughs.
It is one of those things you have to see to really understand how funny it was to watch. So I caught some the excitement on video.
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