Falling Backwards

Note: this post will have no pictures to accompany it, since, as you can see from the title, someone has to catch my child.

Michael recently has been huge into expressing his happiness by falling backwards with a HUGE smile on his face.

I noticed it when I was having him practice his standing up. All of a sudden, Michael looked at me over his shoulder and just launched himself backwards. Good thing I was paying attention! He had never done that before, so usually I just stand him up and casually pay attention.

But his dive backwards was full-throttle and if he hit the ground, it would have hurt. Since I caught him, he thought it was SO MUCH FUN!

So I stood him up and he did it again, and again, and again, and again. His little trust fall game gets quite the smile!

This habit progressed into his falling backwards whenever he is happy. So if he is sitting on our bed while we are playing or Michael is getting ready in the morning, if Daddy makes him smile, his first reaction is to thrust himself backwards on the bed with all this might, laughing all the way.

It is just sooooo cute....

But today, he did it when he was sitting propped up on the floor, which normally, he knows to keep his balance and stay sitting up because he doesn't like when he bumps his head.

So as I was playing with him, fortuantely I was sitting kind of to the side of him, all of sudden, the big smile comes and there he goes launching himself backwards.

Needless to say, a pillow or blanket behind him is now a common accompaniment to any seated play time because with this crazy boy, you just never know when he'll get it in his head to launch himself backwards.

And the sweetest thing about it is how trusting he is, that he can do that and someone or something will catch him and that makes the game all the more fun.