INGO'S SECOND SIX MONTHS
This is a collection of highlights of the second half of Ingo's first year,
between September 2000 and February 2001.
In these six months Ingo progressed from sitting up unaided to pulling
himself up to a standing position - he doesn't walk or speak English yet,
but he can crawl in all directions at great speed and has his own language
of 'ooks', burbles and and 'mabada' noises with apparently well-defined
meanings which he is teaching his parents and friends.
Here are some examples, each of which should not take more than about
ten seconds to download unless your connection is really ropy.
Raspberry noise, 24854 byte WAV
Haroo noise, 11404 byte WAV
Huzzah noise, 16166 byte WAV
Hmmm noise, 10482 byte WAV
Hezday noise, 29507 byte WAV
Ah noise, 4276 byte WAV
Hur noise, 9271 byte WAV
Vvua noise, 25995 byte WAV
Outings
Ingo attended two Arts Therapy conferences and a QL show with his parents
- and met several people who had been closely, if unwittingly, involved
with his conception, besides Simon and Chris the two most closely involved
of all. At the TAoAT (Theoretical Advances of Art Therapy) conference in
Birmingham, which Chris helped to organise, Paolo Luzzato was able to see
the consequences of her offer to give us somewhere private to stay in New
York the previous year. Ingo also attended the Welsh Arts Therapy conference
in Stackpole, Pembrokeshire, where he saw a heron catch a fish while his
gumboot-clad mother was explaining Art Therapy by analogy with gardening,
with cartoon illustrations, and dishing out daffodil bulbs to colleagues
at the meeting. He enjoyed lots of walks and swimming in the warm pool
at the Stackpole Centre.
At QL 2000 in Portsmouth Ingo encountered many of the QL enthusiasts
that his parents last saw on the trip to the USA where he was conceived
17 months earlier. Little did any of them know that the invitation from
the Boehm and Swenson families would have such consequences. :-)
Ingo at the QL 2000 gathering in Portsmouth
Left: with friends from the previous year's QL shows in the USA, when Ingo was
just a couple of gametes - hasn't he grown! Right: Simon drags him reluctantly
away from the meeting at the Horizon Centre.
(Thanks to Dilwyn Jones for the photos).
First Christmas
Ingo had a lovely time at Christmas. His grandad came to see him on
Christmas Day and his parents gave him a bright wooden cycle. He
also got a lot of boxes and paper to play with, which he thoroughly
enjoyed - along with the presents that they enclosed.
Ingo unwraps the IngoCycle on Christmas morning.
Ingo entertains his mum and grandad in Warwick on December 25th, 2000.
Still got some way to go to match the Lyle nose...
Copyright © 2001 Simon N Goodwin, Chris Lyle and Ingo Lyle-Goodwin