Diego learning to walk was memorable, it just happened a few months ago that he started to walk and yet it seems like so long ago. Betsy took some video of Diego at the time attempting a few steps. I loved it. Here it is after a few months of admiring it myself, my son was and is truly growing up!
Diego enjoyed his vacation. He loved all of mommy’s friends and he loved the sea! The beach was heaven to him, as he explored the sand and tasted it to boot. He also played with the beach toys we had from the rental house. He walked into the waves, again and again! As Betsy said, he got pummeled and yet he went back a few times; then he would pretend he had enough and then turned around and went at them one more time. That was the game for a while until he was truly tired.
Our son gives us pride, but also worries us. He can be afraid of not letting us go, but when it comes to experimenting with objects, animals and big ocean waters he doesn’t know what fear means!
See this:
As you saw in Betsy’s last post, Diego did a few things that were beyond our understanding while we were in San Diego. We worry, mostly because we think he is too young to even understand what he did, but also because we realized that he is completely fearless, to the point of possibly getting hurt. WE watch him all the time, but he does things that baffle us and then we feel we need to let him try them… if anything just because we know HE thinks he is perfectly capable of doing them.
In the following series of movie clips you will see him facing a BIG doberman (while being tied, he looked at it straight at his eyes, with a unfazed stare…) and then went on to “temporarily borrow” someone’s long skate board and actually pretended to skate… he has observed this from neighborhood kids, so I assume he figured out how to adapt what he saw to his size…
Then, I decided to ask him to get on the boogie board (see pictures from last post) and he did, no questions asked (actually no fear shown) and as I pull him into the water his face turned serious, focused and as I let him go into the wave, he grabbed the board and off he went! I run behind him, with one hand on the board just in case, but he was completely fine! and did it twice more!
Anyway, enough talk, here they are…
Our favorite slideshow!
