Watch out for Connor! He is officially crawling, army crawling, and spinning around the house!
Someone hasn’t cleaned up that puff from a day ago or that scrap of paper? Well…Now it’s Connor’s and he has it in his mouth.
You want to put Connor down on the carpet and run upstairs to grab something? Well…now it’s a fun game of hide and seek when you get back. Yay! Is he in a different room? Is he crawling under the coffee table? Is he right where you put him just smiling when you return?
Isabel left her toy out? Well…Now Connor is chewing on it.
This last one is especially problematic for Isabel. She has liked CPK up until this point because he was mostly stationary and didn’t mess with her stuff or demand too much attention. Now everything has changed. He is moving to and picking up the toys he wants to play with and they aren’t always his toys.
Fortunately, Isabel is smart and understands that Connor can choke on “small toys” and she does a pretty good job of both cleaning them up and announcing that she’s cleaning them up to earn our praise.
I am trying to teach Isabel to “trade”. If she wants to take away the toy Connor is playing with then she has to give him another toy as a trade. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Most of the time she gives him something that he clearly doesn’t want.
