James is 1 and 1/2 now, he's been speaking nearly since he was born and had about a 35 word vocabulary at 6 mos. (we had to count them and make a list because his babysitter didnt believe us.)
I felt i knew him before I knew him. I tease my sister that my biggest fan was born from my mortal enemy (we used to fight like cats n dogs when we were little.) He sings my name in a song and then waits for me to sing his back. He grabs my hands and leads me places walking backwards going - c'mere... c'mere... all the time. Sometimes he very stubbornly babbles at me and i dont understand what he's saying. (sounds nothing like his baby babble.) After "nana" first thing he learn how to say was "row". He would row back and forth all day every day and get mad if you tried to stop him rowing, sometimes if you didnt row with him. A couple months passed and then (since we'd tease him and sing row your boat.) He'd insist on the song being sung.
Anyways, he's never been interested in TV much. He loves music and tries to snap his fingers to it! lol. One show he will throw a FIT about if you turn off is deadliest catch. He also reacts similar to anything about boats and water. If you insist on not turning it back he'll get up and push channel buttons. He tries to catch the fishes in my mother's outdoor pond. If you dont watch him he'll try and jump in after them.
Yesterday he did the strangest thing though - he got ahold of a salt shaker and was "tossing salt" very purposefully. We asked him to give it back and he wouldnt put it in my sister's hand hand. He looked at her hand and then at her like she was crazy and slammed it on the table.
Anyways, thinking about this I googled salt superstitions today, and came up with this :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...row-salt-shoulder-superstitions-answered.html
Superstition was served up at meal-times. Spilt salt is an obvious one; but a related belief was that the salt-pot must not be handed from one crewman to another - 'pass salt, pass sorrow' - it must be placed down upon the table. An East Riding expression is that 'for every grain spilt, a tear will fall'. On a happier note, spilt sugar meant joy. After a loaf had been cut it must not be up-ended on the bread-board. This dreaded action mimicked a sinking trawler as she plunged under the waves bow first.
This kinda gave me chills. I wasnt really tuning in before I came here - I told my sister I thought he must have been some type of sailor or seafaring man in a past life. What do you think?
I felt i knew him before I knew him. I tease my sister that my biggest fan was born from my mortal enemy (we used to fight like cats n dogs when we were little.) He sings my name in a song and then waits for me to sing his back. He grabs my hands and leads me places walking backwards going - c'mere... c'mere... all the time. Sometimes he very stubbornly babbles at me and i dont understand what he's saying. (sounds nothing like his baby babble.) After "nana" first thing he learn how to say was "row". He would row back and forth all day every day and get mad if you tried to stop him rowing, sometimes if you didnt row with him. A couple months passed and then (since we'd tease him and sing row your boat.) He'd insist on the song being sung.
Anyways, he's never been interested in TV much. He loves music and tries to snap his fingers to it! lol. One show he will throw a FIT about if you turn off is deadliest catch. He also reacts similar to anything about boats and water. If you insist on not turning it back he'll get up and push channel buttons. He tries to catch the fishes in my mother's outdoor pond. If you dont watch him he'll try and jump in after them.
Yesterday he did the strangest thing though - he got ahold of a salt shaker and was "tossing salt" very purposefully. We asked him to give it back and he wouldnt put it in my sister's hand hand. He looked at her hand and then at her like she was crazy and slammed it on the table.
Anyways, thinking about this I googled salt superstitions today, and came up with this :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...row-salt-shoulder-superstitions-answered.html
Superstition was served up at meal-times. Spilt salt is an obvious one; but a related belief was that the salt-pot must not be handed from one crewman to another - 'pass salt, pass sorrow' - it must be placed down upon the table. An East Riding expression is that 'for every grain spilt, a tear will fall'. On a happier note, spilt sugar meant joy. After a loaf had been cut it must not be up-ended on the bread-board. This dreaded action mimicked a sinking trawler as she plunged under the waves bow first.
This kinda gave me chills. I wasnt really tuning in before I came here - I told my sister I thought he must have been some type of sailor or seafaring man in a past life. What do you think?
