Constantly moving unless he is strapped in his high chair with food.
Harrison has moved down to only one nap a day. He's doing very well with this adjustment. Right now, he's eating lunch around 11:30 and napping at noon. We're going to slowly push it later, so he'll hopefully be napping around 1 in the future. This opens up our morning, so this week we were able to go out and do some fun things.
We went to our first story time yesterday. While it was "Family" storytime, there were only a couple of kids near Harrison's age, most were older. He wasn't quite sure what to think. We played in the kids section with some other families while we waited for story time to start. When it did, we found a seat. The older kids all piled on the floor, but Harrison refused to sit in my lap and wandered around the room. He was very good, he and another baby walked right into each other and it was really cute. Harrison was also super nice and picked up a toy another child dropped and gave it back. He's big into sharing right now, and I hope it stays that way for a long time.
5 minutes into story time, Harrison wandered to the door, look back at me, pointed out the door and took off into the library. We tried coming back into the room once, but he wanted to explore, so we wandered through the stacks for a little while. We'll probably go again in a couple weeks.
Today was a big day. We went to our first play group. While you generally have to sit still for story time, play group was a little more Harrison's style. He still doesn't quite understand other kids, but he was pretty good, shared some crackers with another boy, played with cars. He really seems more like a loner already, which could very well change as he gets older and plays with more kids. But he would wander over to the table on the other side of the room and play with the blocks there, or he wanted to explore outside the room in the hallway.
Eventually, I couldn't keep him in the room at all, we ended up closing the door. I got to meet some other moms and their kids, which was nice. I, too, have a hard time socializing. I never know what to say and I always feel awkward, I think I hide it well when I'm in the moment though. When I asked Harrison if he wanted to go home, he ran at the door with excited fury. He also kept his pacifier in the whole time, which I think meant he was a little anxious and it made him feel better. I had to talk to him the whole ride home, keeping him awake for lunch. He seemed very happy to get home, but I think we'll go again next week.
I am excited for some decent weather and getting to go play outside and going to the zoo and the park and maybe taking Cinder to the dog park. SPRING! WHY YOU NO HERE!
