Little Stinker

He's a little imp. Jack can play for a long time with his toys on the floor. He doesn't do anything deliberately very fast at all. You can always see him thinking things through. For example, he will stare at his toys, his hands, food, for a little while, then he starts his arms in motion and reaches for the object, and tries to lock on to the target. Once it's in his little paws he slowly raises it closer to his face and he looks at it. Invariably, the next step is it goes into his mouth. Some things he keeps in his hands longer, like the tags on toys. He loves to feel these.

Whenever Jack is placed on the floor a pillow invariably goes behind him. This was an easy trick to learn because he would lose his balance and fall back with a THUD when he hit the floor, start crying, then Mom or Dad (after checking to make sure Jack "the bod" didn't crack the floor) pick him up and comfort him. Now with the pillow behind him he doesn't go THUD, but he always cries. It's like he has the "right" to cry. This has been his Mom and my suspicion for a while: he deliberately tosses himself back so he can cry and get us to come get him.

Since the things he does deliberately are still a little slow, imagine this in slow motion. Jack is playing, sitting there on the floor with a pillow behind his back. He's playing with his toys and starts to look unsettled, like he wants a parent. He looks back behind himself, almost confirming the pillow is there. He turns his head straight ahead. He falls back onto the pillow, arches his back to roll off the pillow, then begins to cry.

Dad laughs, and he picks up his boy. His boy smiles at him, impishly when he is picked up, like he planned it.