If curiosity could kill you, I am afraid our Jasmin would
not be with us today. She is always investigating. As she becomes more mobile,
this really does become more dangerous…statistics have shown that he home is
not always a safe place for babies and many accidents occur at home…We have
definitely entered the phase in which Jasmin’s every move needs to be
watched…or else…
Jasmin likes electric cables! If they are connected to the
socket they are even more attractive. Long cables are special favorites;
regardless of the fact that she could get tangles in them…Nylon (plastic) bags
are so much fun! They make this noise when you touch them or bite them… there
is a reason why these transparent bags have a warning on them “this is not a
toy!” it’s just that babies usually disagree with that statement – they think
these bags are indeed a play thing and a fun one at that!. Standing up next to
the toilet bowl and looking inside is so much fun! All the baby books warn
parents about this – what if the baby/toddler falls in? They could drown.
Jasmin still thinks it’s interesting enough to take a peak. The staircase at my
parent’s house is also a beloved attraction…
Jasmin is now eight months old! She has managed to fall off
a bed and a sofa, pull down a plastic chair over her head, eat unidentifiable
crumbs (of dust) off the floor, almost choke on a piece of paper twice, eat my
mother’s plants and fall back from her knees so that her head gets bumped on
the floor 3 or 4 times…and yet she lives! Jonathan was not nearly as
inquisitive (he did not eat anything off the floor in the first year of his
life…nor did he eat plants, and his interest in the toilet started only at the
age of almost 3, when learning to urinate in it!) and yet even the fact that he
lives is miraculous (he fell back once almost hitting a corner of a table –
missing it by millimeters! If he had hit only G_D knows what the damage may
have been).
I have a picture in which the 4 month old Jonathan discovers
himself in a mirror; I have a similar picture of Jasmin at 4.5 months. I also
have a picture 10 month old Jonathan is peaking into the washing machine…who
knows, maybe I will also get a picture of Jasmin doing the same in a few months
time…When they are both grown (in good health of course) I will look back at
these times and the funny pictures they make for, and laugh – a good, relieved
laugh! Happy that we all made it this far…and that my children are no longer in
their teens…
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Jasmin first standing up and protesting her having to
stay in the crib (Jonathan was delighted the first time he managed to stand
up…no protest was to be seen but rather
a shining smile on his face - as I can
still view in his “first standing with support” pic which I took when he was
just 6 months old!))
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Happy Trio (Dad,
Jasmin and Jonathan) on the kitchen counter
