New parents tend to attribute characteristics in the baby to one or the other parent. As scientists we know this is rarely reality, but entertains me greatly. For example, Moriarty has explosive feelings. Big, strong, OMG the world is ending feelings. We'll be playing with him on my lap and he's giggling then he decides he wants to look out the window and screams until I turn him around. We're playing on the floor and he gets a wet diaper and screams like I'm torturing him. Obviously, he gets that from me. This week he successfully put his foot in his mouth. He also gets that from me! However, he has an inordinately small butt. I know I've said this before, but there's something quite disproportionate about it. The diapers that fit him are for newborns under 10 pounds. He's over 13. We also tried the next size up in his regular diapers, and another brand, that both go up to 13 pounds but they're HUGE on him. Evidence in the gallery. Not to imply my husband is proportioned like a dough-boy infant, but the baby clearly gets this from Pip not me.
Moriarty has started helping his pacifier stay in. I was hoping he'd get good at sucking his fingers/thumb and not need pacifiers anymore, but not yet. Instead he uses his hands and arm to hold the pacifier in, and re-insert it when it's partly out. So cool. He's sometimes doing this with a grabbing fist which is also cool because he won't really grab anything else on his own. If I put a rattle or toy in his hand he'll grip it for a minute, then get bored.
We bought him a bouncy chair to mitigate the hours of yoga ball bouncing we've been doing. It has a base and angled seat part that can bob up and down, but no motors. We bounce it with our hands or foot. The neat part is that he's learning to bounce it with his legs/body. The first day he didn't seem motivated to initiate any movement. Then we attached the "toy bar" thing where stuff hangs in his face and he seemed to connect the movement of the toys with the movement of the chair. In his motorized swing he'll kick his feet to make the mobile (unmotorized) move. This is the same idea, he just had to figure it out. It's so cool to watch his little brain work. The bouncy chair we picked is a lovely brown with butterflies. The other ones looked, as Pip said, 'like a clown threw up on them'. If conservatives are worried you can turn a kid gay we're well on our way. I'm not worried.