Babies and their Noddy Heads

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Well Kev and I have a day off tomorrow and we've decided to borrow the family baby Little Luke (for practice) The wee guy is eleven months old and into everything, he toddles, babbles and rips your necklace off, in other words he's a typical baby.

So we're trying to decide where to take him, somewhere fun that will keep him occupied and 'broaden his horizons'. Our first choice was the zoo, his mum was going to take him there herself so she thinks he'd love it. I don't know how difficult it would be to get a one year old to pay attention to rutting rhinos or half submerged crocodiles but we were in the wee mans company last night when a Sea-King helicopter passed overhead. It hovered above us with a deafening "Whomp whomp whomp" of it's blades, but could we get the little fellow to look at it? Could we hell. When you point, he grabs your finger and gnaws on it, and he looks everywhere but up where the noise is coming from!

We know he's not deaf, is he just too young to appreciate stuff? Where should we take him?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

babies are like dogs, they can't look up.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

So he wouldn't appreciate the giraffes then?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

Babies are not that interesting Rumpy....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When do they get fun? Like, when do they start looking at stuff?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

How the f*ck would I know?!!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was about Barbies at first.

"Well Ken and I have a day off tomorrow and we're spending it with Skipper and the gang, cruising round in my pink Ferrarri. I might have a frappucinno with Sindy later".

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Barbie vs Noddy crossover FITE

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

At least you can MAKE barbie look at stuff. I thought that babies took loads of stuff in and got like hyper-excited by things? Luke just wants to scratch your face and sook your chin. Mind you, he farted once and got a fright - started crying.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

my nephew laughs at lots of stuff, but it's kind of hard to predict. he is big into balloons.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

At least you can MAKE barbie look at stuff

Those aren't real eyes.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

they just have really short attention spans. and they are never gonna remember that fabulous day you took them on.

if you're gonna enjoy the zoo i say take the kid!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Babies don't necessarily get hyper-excited by everything. This is key to preparing them for life, tho'.

They're kinda more interested in the human interactions, though they spnd and inordinate amount of time seeking out anything that will make them cry rather than anything interesting - short attention spans.

It's best to just talk to them in baby-speak all the time and wait on them hand and foot and not expect too much back.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose the zoo thing IS more for our benefit....

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

They're much lovelier when they a little more grown. My niece Deya is a little angel.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

If they haven't been geeked up on caffeine, sugar and TV, ages 3-5 are great. But I have a 5-year old nephew who's been a screaming destructive spazzmonkey since he was about two weeks old.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Take him to a prison. Its like a zoo but with people!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh he'd love that! Can he pet the inmates?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

They tend to get more fun when the learn to talk.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The inmates?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's just an incoherent babble at the moment. I won't encourage him to pet any inmates at the local jail, in fact I'm now thinking twice about taking him.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure it's worth all the hassle of taking an eleven-month-old for a day trip to the zoo. You have to take so much baby paraphernalia with you - spare nappies, wipes, nappy sacks, bottles of milk, a drink of water or Ribena, pots of pre-prepared baby food, spoons, bibs, damp flannels for cleaning up mucky little faces, child's favourite toy for when he gets tired and crabby, a blanket to cover him up in the buggy if he wants to sleep and it turns chilly, his dummy to help him fall asleep (if he uses one) etc etc that it's like a military operation just getting out of the house with a toddler.

Can't you just take him to the local park for an hour in-between his nap times? Let him have a toddle about in the fresh air, a few thrilling rides down the slide, a push on the baby-swings and then home again. That's quite enough excitement for a toddler.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but I'm his Auntie Jeni! Auntie Jeni is the fun Auntie! (and the zoo has new baby otters)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing about tiny kids at the zoo, is that any living creature is totally exotic to them. A squirrel that runs past the lion cage is likely to be much more interesting than the lion: it's close by, moves fast, and is more baby sized. A day in the park if it's sunny is like the zoo. Blanket on the ground for crawling around on, birds fly by, squirrels scamper past, homeless people ask for change. It's zoo-topia!

― Skottie, Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think CJ has the right idea.

I don't think they would get much out of a trip to the zoo till they were nearly 3. 11 mths. . .waste of your time and sanity.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I ever tell you the (true) story about a divorced Dad who took his five year old daughter to the zoo on one of his weekend visits?

Halfway round the zoo, she let go of his hand and disappeared off into the crowds and it took him nearly half an hour of frenzied searching and calling to find her again. When he did find her, her jeans were soaking wet and very smelly, and she was all quiet and sheepish-looking; she wouldn't say what she'd been doing to get in such a messy state and she insisted she wanted to go straight home.

It was only as they got out to the car park and she refused to put her rucksack in the boot of the car that the Dad discovered she had a baby penguin in it which she had kidnapped.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

babies are like dogs, they can't look up.

My son started looking at things in the sky as soon as his eyes would focus that far, he was enamored by airplanes, helicopters, birds etc. by 9 months.

CJ has it for reals yo. For an 11-month-old, just about anything is going to be exciting. Life is their zoo at the moment.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha that's the best story ever CJ.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally agree. I saw a baby in the park the other day and it was having a whale of a time just sitting on the grass. At that age they want to explore things with all five senses but at the zoo they can only look (probably a bit young for the petting zoo even - not quite able to to stroke gently - you don't want your charge thumping a duckling and breaking its fluffy neck).

So go to the park, I say. Just make sure baby doesn't explore dogshit with the sense of taste.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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