Trying to Stand
Jameson Trying to Stand is Terrifying Me.
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As a new dad, I think the entire world needs to be bubble wrapped and the streets need to be covered in foam padding. I know this is not possible, but now that Jameson is trying to stand up on everything that is how I feel. I haven’t had this much anxiety about anything regarding him yet, and every time he is playing I can’t keep my eyes off of him. He’s going to get some bumps and bruises throughout his life, but I feel like if I can prevent it as much as possible it will make me feel better. So I guess I will just have to focus on trying to make the house as safe and soft as possible.
The source of my anxiety is from him trying to use anything and everything around the house to try and stand up. The biggest issue is that the main living area is covered in this really hard giant tile. And I can just see him climbing up on something and just falling backward and cracking his head open on it. We have a little “baby jail” area we built in the living room, that has these awesome foam tiles we got from Amazon. But now I’m thinking we need to cover our entire house in them. Like I said before, I know it isn’t possible, but it would make me feel so much better.
Jameson has this weird obsession with the Roomba and once he sees it, he’s crawling after it like a bat out of hell. But now that he is trying to stand, he likes to hold onto the back of it and walks/crawls with it. He also has figured out how to turn it on, once he does it will sometimes slip out from under him. He does a pretty good job at catching himself, but there are times that he doesn’t quite do it fast enough and he does hit his head on the ground. Now if you don’t have children, you may not get this, but it is so hard not to react when you see things like this. But if you don’t react your child may not react to the fall either. At this young age, children look to you for how they should react to things, and since I can’t help myself but react, Jameson normally cries when it happens. But the second you pick him up, he stops and just wants to get right back at whatever it was he was doing.
I’m sure I can’t be the only parent that goes through this. And if he is anything like me there will be a lot of bumps and bruises as he grows up. But nothing prepared me for the extra anxiety that comes along with it. If you are reading this, and your baby isn’t at this stage yet, just wait. You will see what I’m talking about soon.