My grandmother Anna, a preacher's wife who died before I was born, sits in a wicker rocker, a shawl around her ample shoulders and a Bible open in
her hands on her lap.
By way of explaining how she «got into all this,» she crosses one ankle over the other and folds
her hands on her lap in the demure manner of her station and says, «When I was a girl my mother had me take lessons in everything.
Instead of bringing your thumb and index finger together, try just resting
your hands on your lap, with palms facing up.
Alternatively, you can cusp
your hands on your lap.
You may also keep
your hands on your lap with your palms facing up.
she wondered, picturing herself in her parents» house in Brooklyn, knowing nothing, having never seen a naked man, and being shocked to the point of aneurysm when a boy put
her hand on his lap at a party.
In «Ain't I a Woman (Sandra),» viewers see Sandra arrange her hair, take a deep breath, and turn to the side for a profile before demurely placing
her hands on her lap.
Not exact matches
It feels good
on the
lap,
on your desk and in your
hand.
If the technology had been available, I would probably have been one of those poor souls sitting
on the beach with a BlackBerry in one
hand, a cell phone in the other, and a computer
on my
lap.
I basically ran that
lap with one
hand on my leg.»
A pen in
hand and a notebook
on your
lap tells the brain, «You better listen.
One of the Navy Seals in our church raised his
hand, so I brought him up, sat him
on my
lap, and got ready to spoon feed him baby food.
So it's time to cozy up to a crackling fire, with your favorite new book
on your
lap, and a cup of this Green Tea Latte in your
hands.
In his
hand, Baldwin carried a broken part wrapped in a white towel, and said driver David Reutimann did nothing wrong when he stopped
on the track with three
laps to go in the race.
Jones led the race until he made an error
on lap 14,
handing the lead to Villeneuve.
Wenger can't even motivate his players when things aren't going well, always folding his
hands between his
laps, while the rest of the managers are always
on the touch line giving more guidelines to the players..
After this year's Australian Grand Prix had an amount of overtakes that you could count
on one
hand, it no longer mattered that the cars looked cool and were setting
lap records, what mattered to fans was that the whole sport was ruined and Ross Brawn needed to fix things quickly.
After Hamilton
handed P3 back to Valtteri Bottas
on the last
lap, Wolff reacted like this.
And to further complicate matters for Bolton manager Owen Coyle, who has
lapped up the plaudits this season for turning the previously dull Trotters into entertaining European hopefuls, Bolton have a defensive crisis
on their
hands.
And if you've got an early walker
on your
hands (
lap)?
Adolescents,
on the other
hand, respond more like cats — aloof, unpredictable, hard to locate, not always coming when they are called, rubbing up against you or jumping into your
lap on their terms.
When you get a chance, put one facing up
on your
lap, put your pinkies in her
hands (she will grab
on), quietly say hello, and look her in the eyes, watch her and make faces; she will respond with her eyes as one dad pointed out, «they talk with their eyes».
Sitting Up
on Your
Lap - With your baby sitting upright
on one of your legs facing sideways and leaning slightly forward, place your
hand high
on her chest where you can also support her head.
Sit her
on your
lap with her back resting against you and your
hand holding her chest.
The only thing that you won't be able to do is train baby to keep her
hands on the tray or in her
lap while you spoon fed.
When you carry a baby in a baby sling, your
hands get rest, and you can do anything without worrying about the little one
on your
lap.
I wouldn't call the last 24 hours a 2 or a 3, but we certainly experienced a few less than face cards beginning with: Izzy, our one - year - old, pooping
on Mark's
lap while they were both nudie - rudy in the tub and Mark
handing me the small log to dispose of.
My toddler couldn't sleep comfortably in her seat and demanded a cuddle and I had my 2
hands full with the baby
on my
lap as we couldn't get a bassinet then.
My kids have sat
on many a
lap other than mine
on planes and someone always offers to help with
hand holding, bag carrying or child minding if I need it.
There I have my pump (plugged into an easily accessible outlet),
hands - free bra, baby blanket to put
on my
lap (in case of spills), laptop or iPad, TV remote, glass of water, and (when my baby was younger) a bouncy seat that I could bounce with my feet while I pumped.
My boys liked when I held them in the upright position
on my
lap, cupped their chins with my
hand and gently patted their backs.
An alternate burping position is to lay your newborn across your
lap, with your leg providing gentle pressure
on his tummy, and keep his head above the level of his stomach by carefully supporting it with one
hand.
Thoroughly wash your
hands after using the toilet or touching a sore, and wash your
hands and lay a clean towel or receiving blanket
on your
lap before holding your baby.
You can hold your baby against your chest or lay him
on his belly across your
lap and pat his back, while supporting his head with your other
hand.
Rest your arm
on a pillow in your
lap or right beside you, and support your baby's shoulders, neck, and head with your
hand.
What to do: Fill the basket or pan with the paper tube rings, and place it in front of your baby while she's in tummy time, propped
on a pillow, or sitting
on your
lap with
hands free to play.
Because grasping typically emerges before baby is strong enough to prop
on one arm and reach in Tummy Time, it's helpful to prop baby
on your
lap or over a Tummy Time pillow with
hands free to play.
• Play simple games with your baby that involve both music and movement: Pat - a-Cake (clap your baby's
hands), This Little Piggy (wiggle those little toes), or Ride a Horse to Banbury Cross (jiggle baby
on your
lap).
On the other hand, the newly redesigned harness converts to a 3 - point lap belt, so when your child is a bit older, he or she has the freedom to come forward on their ow
On the other
hand, the newly redesigned harness converts to a 3 - point
lap belt, so when your child is a bit older, he or she has the freedom to come forward
on their ow
on their own.
In this position, your
hand supports your baby's neck and upper back, rather than his bottom, and his bottom rests either in the crook of your arm or
on the pillow
on your
lap.
Rolling side to side slowly when changing, helping her slowly transition up and down from sitting to lying down and back up again
on changing table, encouraging reaching for toys when
on hands and knees so that one
hand is off the ground without collapsing, playing «row row row your boat»
on your
lap moving side to side and having her hold those tricky sideways positions are some examples of things you can do during the day to help her get used to lateral weight shifts.
You can wear her while you eat (which is awkward at best); hold her upright
on your
lap one
hand / arm wrapped around her spine to support it; have a few more picnic lunches and dinners
on the floor with her until she can be at the table (this is fun); or....
With a small enough baby, you can lay the pillow
on your
lap and allow the baby to sleep
on your
lap hands - free.
They may hold
hands with a stranger or sit
on the
lap of a person they just met.
He likes to sit in our
laps with us holding him and we will hold his
hands and he will pull himself up so he can eat our fingers, but he never tries to sit up
on his own.
My youngest,
on the other
hand will still sit
on my
lap for hours if I let him.
He could sit
on my
lap and nurse away with both of my
hands free.
Baby Cate slowly and easily was born into her father's
hands, with 6 year old Nora
on Nanie's
lap eagerly watching it all (Nanie is of course ME).
They should also be taught the correct way to hold a baby chick — always sitting
on the floor, with one
hand under the chick and one cupped over it — never let a baby chick stand
on an open palm up off the ground — or with the chick sitting
on the child's
lap (
on a towel preferably!)
Fall and spring bring in the rainy, chilly days when I love to snuggle into the couch, blanket
on lap, with my coffee in
hand.