The Hangry Engineer
Hello to everyone.
For several weeks now, Xavier has interested himself with how things work. Primarily, he likes to take things apart then reassemble them. He's quite adept at it, sometimes scarily so.
One of his favored items to pull apart and reassemble is one of his bottles. These have five parts to them: the bottle, two pieces making up the vent and the cap and nipple.
Xavier will push/pull a chair over to where the drying rack rests, climb up and grab bottle pieces, then find some place to sit and assemble the bottle. After a successful assembly, he will throw his head back and suck on the empty bottle several times. Then, he disassembles the bottle and begins anew.
Recently, Xavier sat in front of the refrigerator assembling, play drinking, disassembling his bottle. Rebecca and I thought nothing of it until he started getting louder and growing more frustrated. His frustration grew more after each assembly and sucking sequence. He would suck like he was serious, the slam the bottle on the ground in something of a snit.
Recovering from the tantrum, he began again, only to end back in the same place in a more frustrated state. That's when it dawned on us. He was hungry. His frustration came from the bottle being empty.
Here he had gone through all the trouble to collect the bottle parts, find a comfortable spot in front of the refrigerator, assemble the bottle, and no milk magically appeared! After all, isn't this how his parents do it?
Realizing his hangry situation, we pulled a readied bottle from the fridge. We endured frustrated squawking will the microwave took the chill from the milk (he still likes cool milk), then the blissful sounds of a happily suckling toddler.