Genetics is a wonderful thing

[brixtonbrood]

With just 36 hours to go until he hits 14 months, Tiny has (more or less) learnt how to stand up. This means that he has just about scraped under the wire before the development charts in What To Expect: The First Year would class him as a late developer, and suggest we take him to a doctor.
I wouldn't mind, but this is about the third time he's done this (although he has done other stuff well ahead of schedule, so we're not actually worried).
Truly he has inherited his parents' deadline-surfing talents.

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"What to expect" milestones

[smallbeasts.livejournal.com]

Ellie never "played ball" (they are supposed to be able to do this by 16 months). I kept trying to get her to roll the ball back to me, but she would always wander off with it instead. I guess she just wasn't that interested in balls. Even now, she still can't catch. But then I'm pretty hopeless at that as well.

- Jo

Re: "What to expect" milestones

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't count the optional stuff like playing ball and raking up raisins - that's purely for parents who don't have anything better to do (e.g. learn those extra six verses of Row Your Boat). But standing up is pretty basic, and I was starting to think he'd never ever bloody walk.

Re: "What to expect" milestones

[smallbeasts.livejournal.com]

There are six more verses to Row Your Boat? The horror!

Alice does not crawl or play peekaboo. What she can do is wriggle close to a cat then throw herself on top so the cat can't escape. That isn't listed in What to Expect.