Tai Li was working on growing her legs last time we saw her. Look who’s finally bipedal!
They still keep the aquarium for a playpen though.
Tai Li was working on growing her legs last time we saw her. Look who’s finally bipedal!
Somewhere in the back of my mind Nancy Sinatra is singing “These Boots Are Made For Walking.”
eeee Patty Cake! Patty Cake! Baker’s Man! <3 Soooo cute.
Thanks for translating that. Baby talk is hard to get in a foreign language.
i second that – stuff like baby talk is near impossible in foreign languages….as are many references and quite a few inside jokes. so kudos to the nice fellow readers who patiently explain stuff đŸ˜‰
I am SO CONFUSE! In an effort to teach a baby to speak, aren’t the adults supposed to NOT use baby talk? So that the kid learns what the real sounds are? Sai Fen isn’t speaking with an accent (as shown here).
Apparently you made the same mistake I did, in that you thought that was the mama doing the baby talk patty cake.
That’s big brother.
One sweater, two sweaters; red sweater, blue sweater!! Ahh, you are right, I see my mistake! Thanks, Alpo, … Are you involved in Dog rescue?
What can be almost impossible to translate between languages are idioms. For example, the American idiom of “If something else had happened, it would be a whole new ballgame.”, while in Mexican Spanish the closest equivalent idiom is “If something else had happened, a different rooster would crow in the morning (or to us, I forget).” I spent almost four years in Germany and I don’t think I ever got a German idiom correct.
is this an effort to help pohl not spend so much of his time away from his family? its a pretty good compromise
How much time has passed? Tai Li seems to grow pretty quickly!
The “tadpole” stage only lasts a few months. In the back link under the comic, Tai Li was already starting to show signs of her legs forming.
isnt she a bit big? sure the comic feels like years XP but hasnt she only been born for like a year tops?
A human baby can be walking as early as 8 months so its not too surprising.
Mine was up and about at 15 months, but the average age is 12 months. I met someone with a walking 8 month old. She said she was proud and excited for only a couple minutes after he started walking. Then she realized he could into everything and easily get hurt. Poor woman was sooooo tired!
From what I’ve seen with groups of friends, kids with older siblings usually learn to walk sooner, because they get excited seeing other children move about. The lady I mentioned above is an exception since her son was her first child. Makes me wonder if she had any more kids, and if they even started sooner.
That was about the reaction of my brother when my niece started crawling. We don’t have the baby’s first inching across the floor on camera (because we’d just turned off the camera, on account of her not doing anything beyond sitting there looking cute…), but we DO have Brother’s reaction from when I turned the camera back on. He came in the room to see what all the fuss was about:
“Brother, you have a mobile baby!”
“…Wonderful.”
“And I have your reaction on tape, too!”
Niece was an energetic kid, and Brother was very right to have his mixed reaction. She was up and walking before a year, too.
From your warning about kids with older siblings, we’ll have to keep a careful eye on Nephew…
Best to be cautious about having a baby start walking early. Definitely don’t push them into it. Let ’em crawl around all they like. There have been studies done that actually link crawling with the ability to read. Yeah, I know, sounds made up, doesn’t sound like there’d be any link at all…
People who never learned to read have been told to take a few minutes and just crawl around on all fours, and it has a dramatic effect on their ability to learn to read. Heck, they didn’t even need to do it themselves, they could be lying down and other people move their limbs around in a crawling motion and it really helped. Best guess is it’s the sensory data coming back from the crawling motion influencing the parts of the brain that normally handle reading.
There have been tribes found in deep jungle where having babies crawl is super dangerous because of the environment. So mothers just carry them non-stop until they’re old enough to very quickly learn to walk, skipping crawling entirely. Humans who grow up like that, having never crawled a single foot in their lives, cannot even make a connection between a picture (or drawing) of a fish with an actual fish.
So, let a kid crawl if they feel like it. They’re learning.
How interesting… My kiddo was a super non-mobile baby. She just liked to hang around and hated tummy time so I never pushed it on her. She rarely crawled and went straight to cruising after she hit 1. She seemed to have the ability, but not the motivation so I didn’t stress over it.
On her own, she picked up counting and reading really early. We actually had to pull her from preschool and homeschool her, because she started hating circle time. The kids were learning to count to 10, but she was already into the thousands and knew basic multiplication/division.
My MIL said my husband was a bit like that as a kid. His mobility was average (as far as she noted—she was very young and may not have paid attention), but he did not speak until he was nearly 4. If he was born later, he probably would have been flagged quickly by doctors to check for autism or at least sent to a speech therapist. When he started talking, it was in perfect complete sentences.
Not as much as it seems. Part of her development is handled in egg phase, and “tadpole” phase is only a few months. In the back link she was already showing signs of arm and leg development.
The rhyme sounds a bit Cthulhu-ish… Eee Aaa!
Selkie: doing her best, even if it is for questionable reasons related to superpowers
I’m impressed that the baby of an aquatic species can walk at all. It doesn’t seem to be a skill that would be all that useful, normally.
they are not Aquatic… they are Amphibian… there IS a difference.
How old is Suko again? 2 or 3?
I believe 3, but he could be 4 by now.
Dave: They still keep the aquarium for a playpen though.
Genesee: playpen, … Swimming pool, potay-to– potah-to, whatevs. Let’s call the whole thing off…
So if they grow up on the surface, do they still develope the weird speaking habit?
No, being raised in a native-English environment will essentially correct the problem before it can manifest. You can see a bit of that here even: Suko isn’t pluralizing his toddler-talk.
Considering how much time has passed since his introduction, I’d say he’s either 3 or about to be 3
sorry that was meant as a reply to Dizzy Dial
In my mind, Amanda is a latent Echo, and her abilities eventually get awakened by a jump start from Selkie.