Why Boychen will never learn to crawl
Boychen doesn't get a lot of "tummy time" around here, certainly not two 10-20 minute sessions a day as recommended by many experts. I know about tummy time and I know why it's important. Now that babies are going to sleep on their backs, a practice which dramatically reduces instances of crib death, time on the belly is even more important to help them develop the skills and upper body strength that lead to rolling and crawling. And I try, dutifully putting Boychen on his belly on his very colorful and interesting playmat (courtesy of Australian Friend) daily. But Boychen hates tummy time and starts crying - really wailing - after about three minutes. No matter what toys I present him with, however much I lower myself onto the floor to get fact-to-face with him, no matter how much Mozart that playmat belts out, Boychen wails. Which I can be hard-hearted enough to disregard for the sake of his physical development but for one thing: Small Boy comes running, yelling "Mi bruder ! Mi bruder! Nay nay hor oof!!* He doesn't like that!" and starts to try to roll Boychen onto his back.
Which is totally interfering with Boychen's development but is kind of the cutest thing ever.
I hope Small Boy is always this protective of his chly bruder.**
* Translation: My brother! My brother! No no stop that!
**Translation: little brother
