7/25/2006

Race car Driver?

Quinn Finally figured out how to use his walker. Actually he figured it out weeks ago. Tony got him walking behind his walker, pushing it through the house a while back. At first When we'd put him in it, he was confused. His walker is a Jeep, it has a black rollbar on the back and a yellow rollbar on the front. When he pushes the walker outside he holds the black rollbar when he's inside he holds the yellow rollbar. Sooo he wanted to push the Jeep but could not understand how to do it from inside with out holding the black rollbar, he kept trying to turn around in the walker and grab the black bar. It's like he associated walking with the black rollbar. So I turned him around, backwards inside the Jeep and the light finally went on!

It's amazing how fast he learned. With in a few hours the boy was doing K turns, parallel parking. He had the gangster lean going on. He'd have one hand on the steering wheel and one hand outside the Jeep while backing up. When taking turns to sharply and hitting the back wheels on a corner he instinctivly knows to back the Jeep up and turn wider. How does he know that?

He's all over the place with that thing. And I find it MUCH easier to get things done knowing he's in it. I can be in one room while he's driving in another. The only trouble is that he has figured out how to use it as a weapon. When he wants his bottle and I'm washing it out he just backs up his Jeep and runs into my legs OVER and OVER again. While having a little tantrum. It's actually quite funny if you are wearing shoes.

He also has a fetish for any thing with Wheels. When he sees a toy truck his eyes just light up. He's been "pretending" things were automobiles for a LONG time. Like CD covers, books... He'd just move them back and forth on the floor. Anywho the point is, he makes car sounds... No one has taught him this. He just does it. I find that amazing. How does he know?

1 Comments:

Blogger Grandmom said...

I am so glad he finally likes the jeep - I was hoping it would be worthwhile....

4:35 AM PDT  

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