We were reading “Please Baby Please” and Niko had fun pointing at the balls (and other round things) and calling them balls, barking at the stuffed bunnies, pointing out the bananas, and naming other things he can say the name of.
We also figured out that he tacked “dje deh” to the end of “bye bye” because he’s saying “bye bye, do vidjenja.” “Do vidjenja” is how you say “good bye” in Serbia. Well, it’s one way. It’s kind of formal. You can also say ciao.
Which reminds me of Eddie Izzard.
Ciao.
Anyway, Niko does this thing when he’s eating (in his high chair) where he’ll suddenly hold one hand up. This has always confused me, because it kind of looks like what students do when they want a teacher’s attention; it kind of looks like he’s gesturing toward something that he wants; it kind of looks like something my dad does when he’s relaxing; it kind of looks, ok, a bit Nazi-Salute-y. So when he does it, I usually look around offering him things. What? What does he want? This banana? This telephone? This fork? This board game? These keys? What? And he just shakes his head and looks kind of sad and puts his hand back down eventually.
And then we figured out what he wants.
Dudes, he wants a high five.
I am not even joking. If we hold a hand out, he will slap it. And grin. Smack! High five!
I guess he just loooooves eating. Look! I’m eating! high five. Look! Blueberry! high five. Awesome! TOAST! high five.
This is a guy who once clapped after eating a piece of broccoli.
He also thinks it’s totally hilarz and the best joke ever if I stack one blueberry atop another, or put one cube of cheese on top of another cube of cheese. He grins at me, claps a little bit, snatches the item, and shoves it in his mouth while giving me a “ha ha, see what I did there?” look.
He’s in a pretty good mood most of the time, is pretty mellow, finds lots of things funny.
He even thinks it’s funny when I run an ice cube along his back.
Best baby ever? Oh yeah. I think so.
HIGH FIVE!
Ciao.
