Infant Observation Essay

It is 8:30am when Dj wakes up, as he is waking up he is rolling around in his waking up he is rolling around in his mother’s bed stretching and babbling, a mixture of mama and dada with a high pitch scream as loud as he can, his mother says hey sleepy head good morning, Dj turns over sits up on his knees smiles at her then he falls backwards back onto the pillow babbling again. Mom yells out pamper change Dj continues to babble, mom grabs him lays him down in front of her, as she is changing his pamper; he is turning over, putting his hands down trying to grabs/touch his private part, after mom says no-no he starts rolling over again trying to get up and get off the bed. It is 9:05am and Dj is done getting his pamper change, so his mother puts him down on the floor in hallway, then she closes the doors to the other rooms and to the bathroom. Dj is still sitting in the hallway on the floor looking around and at the bookcases that are in the hallway, he rolls on his tummy to get on his hands and knees to crawls over to the bookcase; before he gets to the bookcase; his mother runs to grab the vases the are on the bottom shelf of the book case and sits them up higher; Dj looks up to watch, he when he reaches the book case he pulls himself up, now he is standing there banging on the shelf screaming and babbling while looking in the mirror that is behind the bookcase. He has been standing there for three minutes, and then he gets down and crawls into the living room, when he reaches the living room he sees his older brother and sister sitting on the floor watching TV. When they noticed him the started saying â€Å"good morning Dj†, â€Å"hey man-man†, DJ smiles and starts crawling fast with head down toward them, as he reaches them he grabs his sister’s shirt to pull himself up, as he is doing that he is screaming, then his brother started saying â€Å"aww mommy† he stepping on me, Dj starts screaming with a smile on his face while turning his head around to see if his mother is looking at them. While Dj is standing there he is pulling down on his sister’s shirt swinging his arm at his brother’s head trying to hit him who laying down next to them. Ten minutes goes by as Dj is still playing, suddenly he stopped playing because the catches his attention it was Mickey Mouse club house, he stands there watching TV for fifteen minutes. The time is now 10:30am when mom yells out breakfast, everyone gets up a runs to the kitchen, Dj watches as everyone go into the kitchen then he started to crawl that way until his mother called his name and said eat-eat as she was walking toward him to a chair he was crawling pass to sit in. Dj is now standing up holding on to his mother knees rocking back and forth humming with food in his mouth; he’ll crawl away and come back for another bite of his pancake he continued to do this until his food was gone. After everybody finished eating the older siblings went into their play room, Dj dropped down to the floor to see where they went then he followed them. I followed him through the hallway pass the book case and into the play room, after he goes into the room he goes straight to the toddler chair to pull himself up, after he stands up he starts to scream and look around the room and reaching for his brother’s face swinging his arm again. Dj saw his sister sitting in the chair next to him playing a handheld game, he steps around the chair he was holding on to and steps to the other chair where his sister was sitting, he reached his hand on to touch her game when she said no Dj. He continued to reach; she continued to say stop and no. Dj reaches his arm out to reach for the bed that was behind the chair he was holding on too, after he grabs the bed he walks along side of it to go to the nightstand at the end, he pulls the top drawer open to find the clothes that were in it, all of a sudden he starts scream as he is turning his head to look around the room as he pulling the clothes out and throwing them on the floor at the same time. After the drawer is empty Dj hears his name being called so he turns his head around to see who was calling him, when he turned around he saw his mother standing in the doorway saying â€Å"no-no you busy little baby†, he looks at her; smiled and dropped down to the floor and started crawling to her with a smile on his face, when he reached her he grabbed her pants pulled himself up, then started playing by pushing her backwards, after two-three steps mom picks him up and walks away to change his pamper.