We discovered pretty early on that William likes to pound things. Whether it's his hand on the bath tub edge, on his food tray, on boxes, my chest, or himself, when he gets excited or happy about something, those little arms start pumping and the hands start finding something to connect with. He's also at the age where anything that he can shake that will make a noise is a hit or attention grabber - even if only for a few minutes. This is great for distraction, and so many things can work to fit the bill, keys, breath-mint tins, rattles, crinkly paper, etc. We also have one of those Asian drums with a bead on each side that if you rotate in your hands starts beating itself (do you know what I'm talking about?).
Anyway one of our Chinese friends recently got him a little drum. And William loves to pound away. I'd say he has about an 85% hit success rate, which as his mother makes me think he's a genius! :) but regardless of what I think, he can go at that thing with abandon, most times he doesn't even look - but he still hits it in the right place. He's also started flipping the drumstick over in his hands - first one end then the other, we think it's pretty funny. He's also showing a real preference for his left hand, (he started out pretty right dominated), which is interesting as neither of us are lefties. I think I read somewhere that hand preference isn't set until age 2 (can anyone confirm?), so I guess we'll see what ends up sticking.
Anyway he here is on a more sedate day, playing his little drum.
Anyway one of our Chinese friends recently got him a little drum. And William loves to pound away. I'd say he has about an 85% hit success rate, which as his mother makes me think he's a genius! :) but regardless of what I think, he can go at that thing with abandon, most times he doesn't even look - but he still hits it in the right place. He's also started flipping the drumstick over in his hands - first one end then the other, we think it's pretty funny. He's also showing a real preference for his left hand, (he started out pretty right dominated), which is interesting as neither of us are lefties. I think I read somewhere that hand preference isn't set until age 2 (can anyone confirm?), so I guess we'll see what ends up sticking.
Anyway he here is on a more sedate day, playing his little drum.
2 comments:
He is adorable. We just got your card and loved it! Our girls are lefties and izzy didn't finally choose until age 4. The nice thing is, when she is coloring and one hand gets tired, she just switches to the other one!
Love that little music man!
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