8 Crawling before walking

When Gunnar reaches 5 months of age, he starts to move his body by crawling. His wobbly legs still not strong enough to make him properly stands and walk. The first thing he did is inspecting the whole house. The house actually quite big, it has 5 bedrooms, 1 used by his grandparents, 1 used by his parents, 1 used by his uncle, 1 used by his aunt and the last used by Gunnar. Gunnar's room seems new because recently added for his birth. Other rooms are the kitchen, storage, dining room and the meeting room where his grandpa receive the guest. There are also stairs leading to the second floors that Gunnar can't explore since he still too small to climb the stairs. Outside the house, there are stable, barn and bath area. Stable used to raise horses that the family used for transportation, in the barn the family keeps their field crops there and bath area is a small pond contain water that sends to the house through the pipe from mountain springs.

This house adventures of Gunnar make his new mother must keep her eyes on Gunnar whereabouts. Every time Gunnar entering 'Dangerous Area' like kitchen or storage, his mother always drag him out from there. Well, can't blame her for that, because of kitchen indeed dangerous because there's fire to cook, and storage because the weapon was stored there. The front door also blocked for Gunnar because his mother doesn't want Gunnar to leave the house without her supervision. Gunnar's mother becomes the busiest person in the house, she must handle Gunnar and kitchen as well. When she about to angry and scolding Gunnar, Gunnar just looks her at the eyes and chuckled happily. And her mother anger vanishes instantly.

Gunnar exploration only last for a week before he gets bored and decides to learn something else. He starts to learn the language that used in the family. What surprised him is that language is similar to Ancient English that used by Anglo-Saxon tribe in his previous world. After he understands the basis of the language, his understanding of his new world become wider. He starts bit by bit understand what people around him talking about.

Marian (Gunnar's mother) POV

This year God blessed our family. After one year married finally I'm pregnant. All family member really happy with this news. My father and mother-in-law full of joy because they will have their first grandchild, but the happiest person is my beloved husband, Jones.

During my pregnancy period, he shows his care to me very much. Without I'm asking, he always brings back home, fruit and vegetables, which I suddenly have a rise in appetite. He also gives me the best meat part from the hunting prey. He said 'Marian you must eat more for our child share too' isn't that sweet?

Until seven months of my pregnancy, all things go well and smooth. Not like other women that complaining about their body condition during pregnancy, I did not feel much difference in my condition before I get pregnant, except my belly gets bigger thou. After seven months I start to feel movement from my baby in my belly. It feels like he doing kicking or punching from inside. When I told my husband about this, he confidently says that my baby must be a baby boy, its sound silly but also funny to me.

The delivering baby process also smooth, not too painful like other people said for first delivering will be very painful. Well, there's a pain but not for long. After two hours he finally bore into this world, it's a healthy baby boy like what my husband said. My baby is very special to me. He's different from other Markel offspring, usually, the son of family inherit their father characteristic, like the hair color. But my son has his hair color brown, just like me. His cry when born also so loud, it's like announcing to the world for his arrival.

He also not troubles me at night. He just sleeps peacefully in his room, unlike other babies that sometimes cries at night. That's gives me a good night sleep which I needed after delivering a baby.

His appetite also big, when I breastfed him, I can feel like he tries to sucks the milk in my chest until dry. Well, I can't complain about that because he needed it to grow into a strong baby boy. But with his born in this family, this also reducing my time to spend with my husband. In many occasion, when we trying to build romantic air, he suddenly cries. Makes me must go to calm him, I don't know if he does it on purpose or not, but impossible for a baby to be jealous of his father right?

When I take him to outside, he looks happy. His round eyes scrutinize around like want to know where he is. His curiosity so high, I wonder if he will become an adventurer when he grows up later. If he saw a bird, he will look it for a long time, like examining it. I also explain the bird name to him, but I'm not sure he understands or not.

A few months later when he starts crawling, the whole house becomes his adventurous site. He explores almost every corner of the house. Of course, he can't enter the kitchen and storage because it's dangerous for him. I can't leave my sight from him for a moment because if I do that, he already is gone who knows where. When my patients reach the limit with his naughty exploration and start scolding him, he just watches me with his cute eyes and laughing. God, my baby is so cute when he laughing, I can't help to laugh either while pinching his chubby cheeks. My son, your mommy loves you so much!