Dreaming of summer!

Andrew is all ready, with his new sunglasses!

Play date with Oskar

10-month-old Oskar and his Mommy Ragnhild came over today. Our regular baby group got canceled due to the snow storm but that didn't stop us from getting together!

Check out that cool rattle! I want that!

Gimme!

Hey!

We'll have to work on the "sharing" concept with these guys! Though, I think it's some time before the ability to recognize it is possible... After a Google search I turned up this:

When babies under 15 months get together, they alternate between grabbing things out of the other kid's hand, and grabbing the other kid's hair and yanking hard. (OK, sometimes they throw in some drooling and biting for good measure. And if their nails haven't been clipped within the last 10 minutes they'll probably end up doing some scratching, too.)
It's really awful, except for the fact that the other kid doesn't realize that your son is being rude, because they just don't have any social sense yet. He knows that the toy was in his hand and now it's not, but he doesn't really know that the other baby took it. (The developmental spurt that allows babies to understand a sequence of events doesn't even happen until the baby is closer to 10 months, and they can't understand any kind of more complicated program of events until shortly after a year.) So we adults look at it as a horrible interaction, but the kids are just so thrilled to be with other babies that they don't even care.

The task for a child's first year is to learn to trust. When you play with baby and give him what he asks for (remember that for babies there's no difference between want and need), you're teaching him not only to trust you, but to trust the world. It's what's supposed to happen.