Strange Ways

Lately, Lennon has been doing the strangest thing.  Every so often he will pick up a toy, or sometimes he simply uses his hands and just starts whacking himself in the head.  He did this in a video a couple posts back.  It is the weirdest thing and we don't really know what is going on or why he would be doing this.  Sometimes he acts shocked about it and cries as if someone else did it and other times he just does it and then looks over at me as if to say "what?  I can take it."  He is such a weirdo!  Sometimes he does it when I tell him no sternly and so I wonder if it's some form of protest.  I always tell him to be gentle like I would if he were hitting me or the cat or anything else, but he seems to hit even harder when I say that.  Today at church he was not more than 10 feet away from me with another little baby during the brunch and suddenly we all heard this crash and the two babies were underneath two folding tables that had been leaned up against the wall.  Both babies ended up being fine, but the table hit Lennon on the head and he was visibly angry about what had happened.  It wasn't those really super heavy tables, it was a couple of those kind of lightweight plastic ones.  Still, it had to hurt.  After church he feel asleep in the car and took a pretty good nap.  Later, at home after his nap, he started kind of fussing and pointing toward the front door and hitting himself in the head.  I wondered if he was trying to suggest that his head was hurting from when the tables hit him earlier.  I asked him if his head was hurting and he shook his head yes.  I gave him some ibuprofen and he seemed to be feeling better not too long afterwards.  So then this made me wonder if the other times he smacks himself in the head he could be trying to tell me that he is in pain.  He is teething big time so maybe he is getting like tension headaches or something from the pressure of teeth coming in?  Who knows.  He is the spawn of me and Shelby so he's bound to exhibit some bizarre behavior at some point - okay, several points during his life.