Push to Activate

The twins don't say very much at all yet, but they're beginning to "speak" in other ways. Sawyer's newest trick is really quite amusing. As the clutchy Mommy's boy that he is, he always wants to be picked up and carried around. Two little chubby arms reaching upward is his way of saying "pick me up." Just as standing outside the office, leaning over the baby gate is his way of saying "get off that computer and come play." But now he's added a new dimension. When he wants me to go in a certain direction after I've picked him up, he leans as hard as he can in the way that he wants to go. If it's behind me, then he stretches both arms back as far as he can in an attempt to move me the right way. As he's getting heavier these days, he's not getting picked up nearly as much as he would like (or he is used to). So he's had to adapt. Now, when he wants something, he gets behind me, turns me in the right direction, and then places both of his hands on the backs of my legs and pushes me in the appropriate direction. Some days, it's over to the kitchen countertop where we keep fruit snacks in a dish. Once he gets me there, he points up and looks at me expectantly. And other days, it's a trip into the office that he wants, for his current favorite game of organizing pens and markers (we keep them in a tray in our open shelf desk, and he loves to move them back and forth from the tray to the top of the desk). So now he pushes Mommy to the baby gate, and then he lifts up his chubby arms. He needs to be picked up to get over the baby gate, you see, and he figures Mommy will do at least this much of the work. Who needs to speak, when clearly you can get all you want by simply pushing and pointing? Just because they don't talk much yet, doesn't mean they're not smart little boys!