We knew that Bryan knew how to imitate some simple stuff a few weeks ago. But to see him being able to imitate more complicated stuff was just a blast!<\/p>\n
Today Bryan was smacking the desk with his palm as usual. So I played a game with him using that: I first gently patted the desk twice and then on the back of his hand, also on the desk with the palm facing down, twice. And then I took his hand to pat the table twice and THEN on MY hand twice. I repeated this cycle two times. Then on the third time, I stopped at taking his hand to pat on mine. But Bryan made the connection of what that pattern was supposed to be and patted the back of my hand twice! <\/p>\n
WOW!<\/strong> That’s pretty damn cool!<\/i><\/p>\n At first I thought that was a coincidence. So I asked Grace to come by to witness it and showed Bryan what to do again. And he did it again, twice<\/i>, without me showing him what to do the second time. Grace and I were both ecstatic! Too awesome… <\/p>\n Babies are fun… <\/p>\n Another observation we made of Bryan is that he’s getting pretty damn good at balancing himself in our arms. Just a couple of weeks ago, if we held him in our arms facing us without support on his back, he’d have flapped backwards like a broken bamboo. Today I observed that he’s now fully capable of balancing and counter-balancing to adjust the degree of angle to which I hold him with his head, legs and torso. It’s a very unique opportunity to be able to observe those developments so closely as Bryan grows. <\/p>\n Bryan has also just learned how to turn over… But it’s only a one-way street so far — he can turn from facing up to facing down, but not always the other way around. This can only mean one thing — crawling is not too far behind… Time to childproof the damn apartment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We knew that Bryan knew how to imitate some simple stuff a few weeks ago. But to see him being able to imitate more complicated stuff was just a blast! Today Bryan was smacking the desk with his palm as usual. So I played a game with him using that: I first gently patted the … Continue reading “Bryan the Imitator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-89","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}