the evolution of hunting
Mar. 10th, 2008 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiThe Zweeble is pretty much over the pacifier. He was a total binky baby for the first 8 or so months of life. Now he'll occasionally find one and put it in his mouth, but it definitely seems more for old times' sake than anything else.
(side note: I knew that breastfeeding vs. formula was a huge parenting debate, I knew about vaccine controversy, but I had no idea that there were pro-binky and anti-binky factions. And there are! People would see the kid with a pacifier and immediately give us their opinions, whether or not we wanted them. I was amazed. My personal parenting mantra is "whatever works," so I just sort of shrugged at people and went on.)
I bring this us because we had (have, actually, I haven't tossed them yet) about a thousand pacifiers, and every couple of weeks we'd be down to two that we could readily find. So I would have to mount a Great Binky Hunt and track down the missing binkies.
Well, now we have Roll-A-Rounds, which are little plastic balls, slightly larger than golf balls, with things inside them. The Zweeble has the dinosaur set and two sets of just weird things like a disco balls or a jingle bell on a spring. So he has 18 of them, and we had five that we could find. So I mounted the Great Roll-A-Round Hunt. We're up to 15 of them (which I've put into his inflatable duck tub, as he's outgrown it and Scott can't bring himself to part with it, so it needs to be put to use somehow). The disco ball is still at large, and I don't know what's inside the other two. I've found these things in the car, under the changing table, in the couch, in the diaper bag ... and I'm running out of ideas as to where to look next. I keep glancing in corners, or suddenly realizing that, hey, the book shelf is high enough to have a Roll-A-Round underneath it. Then I drop and look, much to the Zweeble's delight, as he can then climb on me like the organic jungle gym that I am.
I've found two binkies, as well. :)
Last night he discovered the two containers of Mega Blocks I put in his closet--I figured eventually he'd look in them and find the things--so I'm sure I'm on my way to the Great Mega Block Hunt.
(side note: I knew that breastfeeding vs. formula was a huge parenting debate, I knew about vaccine controversy, but I had no idea that there were pro-binky and anti-binky factions. And there are! People would see the kid with a pacifier and immediately give us their opinions, whether or not we wanted them. I was amazed. My personal parenting mantra is "whatever works," so I just sort of shrugged at people and went on.)
I bring this us because we had (have, actually, I haven't tossed them yet) about a thousand pacifiers, and every couple of weeks we'd be down to two that we could readily find. So I would have to mount a Great Binky Hunt and track down the missing binkies.
Well, now we have Roll-A-Rounds, which are little plastic balls, slightly larger than golf balls, with things inside them. The Zweeble has the dinosaur set and two sets of just weird things like a disco balls or a jingle bell on a spring. So he has 18 of them, and we had five that we could find. So I mounted the Great Roll-A-Round Hunt. We're up to 15 of them (which I've put into his inflatable duck tub, as he's outgrown it and Scott can't bring himself to part with it, so it needs to be put to use somehow). The disco ball is still at large, and I don't know what's inside the other two. I've found these things in the car, under the changing table, in the couch, in the diaper bag ... and I'm running out of ideas as to where to look next. I keep glancing in corners, or suddenly realizing that, hey, the book shelf is high enough to have a Roll-A-Round underneath it. Then I drop and look, much to the Zweeble's delight, as he can then climb on me like the organic jungle gym that I am.
I've found two binkies, as well. :)
Last night he discovered the two containers of Mega Blocks I put in his closet--I figured eventually he'd look in them and find the things--so I'm sure I'm on my way to the Great Mega Block Hunt.
