So today while he was outside doing some woodworking, I hear J talking to our neighbor and her daughter. So I walked out because the baby ALWAYS wants to see Spencer (see...not touch) and I of course want to see them. We stand around for a while chatting about this and that, making faces at the baby and trying to get her to say "Bow Wow" in German (which sounds something like Vow Vow or Vow Bow...anyway). She of course refuses to say anything to us (never has even though we see her a few times a week) but will definitely let you know that she wants to watch Spencer. She laughs when we laugh and makes funny faces at you if you aren't paying attention to her and is generally a happy baby. She turned 1 near the end of September and was walking before her birthday so naturally she doesn't like being held all the time. Her mom will put her down and we all make certain that Spencer doesn't 1.) lick her face and 2.) doesn't jump up on her or knock her over in some way because we are generally in the driveway while visiting. M (not me, the neighbor), like us, loves to be outside most of the time.
Well today in our conversation, J says something about his knitting. M looks at him with the lopsided grin of someone trying not to laugh and says, "Oh no, take that back!". LOL! She could not believe a guy would knit! M is our age but originally from Germany. She grew up with her grandmother and great grandmother teaching all of the girls that it was vital that they know how to do "Woman's work". She needed to learn to knit, crochet, sew, cook, etc. M of course had no interest in any of this and never learned any of these skills. So to hear that a MAN would be doing this willingly, WOW, she was floored! So I go grab the hat and scarf that J knitted for me as well as the hat that he knitted for himself and bring them out for M to see. Baby was still "playing" with Spencer...i.e. watching and pointing and running away laughing if he came too close. :-) M was thoroughly impressed with J's work!
So I sit down on the driveway and immediately baby comes to me, grabs my hand and crawls into my lap. This is definitely a first as she normally shies away from us if we get too close. So in the year and almost 2 months that we've been seeing her, this was the first time I'd "held" her. Well she is feeling the different materials of the two hats when she grabs J's hat and takes off! She literally stands up, grabs her mom's hand and headed down the driveway. LOL So I laughingly told J that he needed to make her a hat of her own. By this point, she was trying to put it on her head. ;-) So J asks her if he could have his hat back and she shook her head no at him and put the hat down at her side, apparently trying to keep him from getting to it. LOL M tells baby in German that she needs to give the hat back because it wasn't hers, so baby kindly brings the hat back to me, the person who she took it from. M explained that she was learning if you take something from someone that you have to give it back to that person. (Sharing is caring!) So I get J's hat back and baby bends over to touch the super fuzzy hat that is mine and I asked her if she wanted to see that one. She did...and she again takes off with it. LOL So I told J, "that's it, you HAVE to make her her own hat". And wouldn't you know...when M and baby were leaving to go back home, baby kept saying, "Bye!" over and over again to us. LOL
I really think baby likes J's hats! And she sure as heck knows how to suck up to get one! ;-)
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