I see you!

When Luke was about 10 months old he started playing …what I call, “I see you” games….he became quite “nosey”….and couldn’t stand not to see what was going on around him.  When we went somewhere he had to see what everyone else was doing, when family came over and they went where he couldn’t see….he would stretch and turn so he could see them.  If you dared to turn him so he couldn’t see, he would just move again to accommodate the new position you put him in.  His favorite “I see you” times were when he was eating in his high chair. It was so cute and funny.  When my husband or I walked behind him…he’d turn to look, and all you could see was one eye staring at you through the hold in the back of the high chair.

Now, he can barely walk facing forward.  If anyone comes by him, or he walks through a door…he has to walk while looking behind him so that he can see the people…or the door shut.  Until that happens it is almost impossible to get him to simply walk straight with his walker.  I don’t know what he’ll do when he is able to walk on his own.  I guess we’ll find out.

Anyway, Luke has found a new “I see you” game time.  Since he started going to school we have our basic school routine.  I open Luke’s door and turn on his closet light, so he will wake up.  Then once I hear him kicking and laughing I go in and give him his morning medicine.  While I go clean out the medicine cup, I tell him to “stand up”…and usually by the time I get done washing the cup and head back to his room, Luke is already standing up.  The funny “I see you” moment happens then. 

As I explained above, he has to “see” everyone.  So when I am in the bathroom washing his medicine cup, Luke is standing up and at the far end of his crib.  He stretches as far to the left as he can so he can see around the door frame. 

When I come out of the bathroom with the clean medicine cup, the usual sight I see is of Luke’s head sticking out and over the side of his crib.  He reminds me of a bird stretching its neck.  It never fails to put a smile on my face, a great way to start each morning!