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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The Bebefiles: Ten Months, where has the time gone?

As I sit at this computer desk with all the wires taped securely to the legs and all the peripherals moved away from the edge of table, I wonder where the time has gone. Bebeface, whose misbehavior was once limited to wiggling alot and peeing on me, has morphed into something else entirely. He has become- Cap'n DangerIsMyMiddleName. Two days ago he unplugged the laptop. The day before that he pulled the wireless signal repeater out of the wall. Last week he reached up to this desk and got hold of the electric drill and very narrowly avoided dropping it onto his head. Yesterday, he woke me up by falling off the bed.

It was a different sort of alarm. Instead of beep beep beep the noise went waanh waanh wannh. I woke up in a panic- I could hear Khalid crying but couldn't find him in the bed. He was on the floor in an untidy heap of baby, his head down and his legs propped against the leg of the crib, looking very offended and somewhat more compact than usual. I scooped him up and went to the kitchen, where immediately, I turned on the microwave. Khalid likes the microwave. In a few seconds, the wails turned to whimpers. Then the whimpers were replaced with the silent hyper-vigilance of Khalid watching the plate in the microwave go around in circles. Then he giggled. All was well and the mighty fall from the bed was forgotten.

(Oh, and the other day he pitched himself off the sofa head-first and was caught in mid-air by Knicq. Many thanks Knicq Bhai.)

Khalid is now a little human. Officially. He used to be a little blob, and before that he was a jellybean of some sort. Now he's a little person who likes chicken, doesn't want his nose cleaned, laughs at the pictures in his baby books, follows you around with upheld arms, pulls my pant legs when I'm doing dishes, tastes absolutely everything, and plays peekaboo. Really, he plays peekaboo. He will hold things in front of his eyes, wait, and then peek out and smile. Then he'll do it again. And again and again. Alhamdulillah, SubhanAllah. He's growing, he's learning, he's developing sneakiness. Combine a desire to pull the phone cord with the knowledge that he shouldn't be, and you get a baby who drops the phone and runs smiling up to me when he's caught, as if he's never pulled a phone cord to within an inch of its life before. Oh no. Not me momma, would this face lie?

Right now Khalid is laying in my bed (surrounded by a wall of pillows) and drumming his heels on the mattress, growling, and playing with a rubberband simultaneously. In a minute we'll head to the kitchen for lunch, maybe scoot around the house in the walker later, and then we're off to Ikea for yet more adventures, so I guess I'll just finish this blog later.

Bebeface & I, over and out!

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6 Comments:

At 25/1/07 1:39 AM, Blogger Saira said...

MashaAllah - I have a little nephew (well, cousin's son) who's about one and a half now. He's just as cheeky, and it's amazing the trances babies go into when they're examining the inner workings of things... it suddenly pacifies them.

Hah, and he decided peekaboo wasn't effective enough at scaring people, so he turns his eyes up until the pupils are barely visible, waiting until you react. If you've seen the Omen, this is REALLY quite frightning. ;)

 
At 25/1/07 12:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

aww, mashAllah!

 
At 25/1/07 12:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

blogger ate up all my du'as for him. :(

 
At 26/1/07 2:12 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Mashallah, he sounds adorable! Never ending excitement! I don't remember either of my brothers being like that that early, but I probably blacked out the horror :P

 
At 26/1/07 11:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

honey im home :D [hint]

 
At 30/1/07 4:27 AM, Blogger baj said...

aw, my comments were devoured as well. :(

 

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