Learning the Ropes

Hi Shira,

You've been growing and gaining new skills pretty rapidly. You're starting to get some hand eye coordination, reaching for things you see and having some success getting a grip on them. Tonight you even started reaching for bath toys. Until now you've been content to just relax and enjoy the water. You're also starting to sit pretty well on your own. You still go down after a while but you can sit alone for a maybe a minute sometimes. You still like being on your feet but now you're able to keep a fairly good balance with just a little assistance.

There are two things you are obsessed with. Your big sister and food. We are to the point of thinking of giving you your first real food soon. You are about the right age to start trying it now. But you sure watch us carefully and with what looks like desire whenever we are eating. Of course your main technique for investigating something right now is oral. So you are pretty preoccupied with that. I'm sure it will even intensify when we start actually giving you some things.

But your sister? Forget about it. You are absolutely enthralled with her. If I'm trying to feed you with a bottle, I have to shade your eyes so that you can't look at her because you will get distracted and stop eating. I hope what you see her doing is going to result in positive behaviors from you. You can see in the video how you might even get a sore neck trying to keep track of her. Actually, I think it's a good sign that you two will have a strong relationship as you get older.




Love, Aba.