The Seversons

As you can tell from our previous post, Grammer has learned how to crawl.  It’s important that I phrase it that way.  It’s not so much that he does crawl as that he learned how.  He doesn’t actually do it even though he’s capable.  Part of it is because he hasn’t quite perfected his moves yet.  But the other part is due to his unique personality.

His unique personality, of course, comes from his parents.  And I’ve been wondering whether he takes more after Eric or me.  The word we use to describe Grammer most often is “deliberate.”  I generally think of that word applying more to Eric than to me.  However, one must consider that when I was a baby, my mother would keep me busy at lunch by giving me a bowl of rice, which I would eat… one piece at a time.

But crawling has shown that, in some ways, Graham is more like me.  Eric is the determined one, the hard worker who pushes through anything and everything.  I am ambitious, but lazy; I tend to exert effort only when I am interested and the goal is in sight.  As for the Bug, he could manifest his genetic tendencies in two ways.  If he was more like Eric, he’d keep working on his crawling until he had the whole apartment covered in two seconds flat.  If he took after me, he’d see the toy, want the toy, but recognize that someone else could get the toy for him with much less effort than it would take him and by screaming loud and long enough the toy would be delivered into his hands.

The Bug has picked Option B.

I wish I could be happy about this.  But with all the screaming it is hard to hear myself think.

Then again, if he took after Eric he probably would have pulled the books off the shelves and figured out a way over the baby gate by now.  And while we’ve done some basic babyproofing, it’s nice knowing that while those outlet covers are in place, we don’t really need them so much.

Every now and then he gets in a peppy, adventuresome mood and ventures out towards his jingle bell or his squishy turtle book.  So it’s not like he will never be crawling up the walls.  I look forward to when he gets a little more comfortable.  Because we could really do without all the screaming.

Another thing we could do without: teeth.  We’ve got 4 with the 5th ready to bust any day now.  With more than two months of teething I think we are ready for a break.