New year, new pattern
Not quite in pattern yet; this has been my first week sort-of back at work and Peter’s first week sort-of in nursery (not to mention, Matthew’s first week for a while when he was in nursery 4 days rather than 3). Peter’s first half-day in the “Daisies” room was not a success; he refused to eat, take a bottle, sleep, or smile very much. But on his second half-day (Tuesday) he did all those things. Today he was there 10-4 and again ate, slept, took a bottle, and smiled a lot. This is encouraging. I think part of the problem on the first day, as the nursery staff suggested, was that all the other babies (and for that matter the staff) were back from a long break and having some trouble getting used to it. There was a lot of noise, and Peter doesn’t really like noise.
He wanted to tell me all about it when I picked him up, in his very-newly-developed babble. It’s funny – a couple of days ago I looked, for the first time in months, at the “what to expect” book we studied so diligently when Matthew was a baby, and noted that most seven-month-old babies babble, and remembered that Matthew didn’t at that age, and noted that Peter didn’t yet. And today, hey presto. Perhaps he’s picked it up from the other babies at nursery. At the moment it’s mainly “ba-ba-ba”. (You know, it wasn’t until Matthew started babbling that I realised that “baby” was onomatopoeic. Duh). No “da-da”s recorded so far; he has had for some time the “mum-mum-mum” that means “there is a problem”.
I can foresee a time, in the not too distant future, when words-in-edgeways will become even harder to get in this household.