It was as if a switched was flipped on Eli this weekend. On Friday Eli started army crawling across the floor in pursuit of his favorite toy, a little yellow and blue hammer. He throws his arms out and uses them to drag himself along. There's not much cuter than a little 8 month old face drawn up in hardcore concentration. I guess we need to keep him in some long pants lessen the carpet burn.
He also ran his mouth a lot more this weekend. Usually it's a long strong string of da-da-da-da-da with the occasional ma or ba thrown in there for good measure. I think a ka also made an appearance. His talking is sort of high-pitched and usually comes with some squealing. He tends to babble more when he's upright and excited, like he has something he just HAS to tell us.
Eli started clapping this weekend as well, though I almost hesitate to call it clapping. It's more like flailing his arms in a distinct pattern that produces repeated contact between his hands. Let's call it pre-clapping but it seems pretty intentional and it looks hilarious.
We took Eli to a concert on Saturday night and kept him up way too late. The little guy is such a trooper. It was a french band playing outside the Art Museum and their name translated to The Primitives of the Future, or something like that. They played a short set of music that sounded like a soundtrack for Ratatouille or The Triplets of Belleville. Eli was more fixated on the people sitting behind us than the performers. He just stared at them in a totally unnerving way, as if he was disapproving of them in somehow. They thought it was hysterical. After the music the Museum showed a couple French classic short films; we made it through the first but Eli had had enough and we were pushing our luck at that point. Gotta make sure he gets a good music base so he can learn to weed out crap music. Where's that on the developmental chart?
