My Son

Last night I brought Caedmon down to go to a meeting with about 10 friends. When we came in Caedmon was pretty frightened by all of the white people. (He hasn't seen white folks except for me for a while.) Also, they--all of them at once--acted extremely happy to see him, which kind of freaked him out. He cried heartily for a couple minutes, but finally after I took him outside the room for a moment, he stopped crying and steeled his nerves for a reentry to the room with all of the hyperactive white people.

We went back in and sat down on the couch. I held him on my lap for a few minutes but then got tired of holding him, so I set him down beside me on the couch and gave him my cellphone to play with. So he was just sitting there beside me playing with my phone. Father and son at a little social gathering. He played there happily not minding anything else. By my side playing there. I was really proud of my little son. He seemed to me then like my son rather than like my baby.

Caedmon had to go eat so we left early. I held up Caedmon's hand and said "byebye" to the friends. Caedmon waved and waved to them. They were charmed and amazed and hyperactive. Think Caedmon was feeling happy to be in his fathers arms and leaving with his father rather than being left behind with the over-happy strangers.

Waving

Caedmon can wave and clap now. Actually when he claps he just points to his left hand with his right hand pointer finger and moves his hands back and forth. Last night Poppy said to clap in Chinese but she didn't make any motions with her hands. Caedmon heard her instructions and started doing his little "clapping" motion. He has done it repeatedly so he obviously knows what he is doing.

Then when we waved at him and told him "byebye," he waved back. The only problem is that when he waves, he holds his little hands in front of his belly and waves them both--at his belly. Just a few minutes ago I was holding Caedmon on my chest with the baby carrier because I wanted to do housework and keep Caedmon out of trouble simultaneously. He was facing me and his hands were at my sides. Poppy looked up from her lesson preparation, waved at Caedmon and said "byebye." We didn't see his hands move, so we thought that he was being contrary and not wanting to wave or something. But then suddenly I felt something at my sides as if someone were trying to tickle me. It was Caedmon waving at my sides.