Soccer Dad

20 months

At 1:15 AM this morning she turned 87 weeks old.

The wonders continue.

In recent days she's gotten used to using implements for eating. She's not bad with a spoon right now. It was funny watching her eat macaroni yesterday. She hasn't always mastered the art of putting the food in her spoon, so I did that for her. She'd then lift the spoon to her mouth and manage to get most of the macaroni in, with just a few, every spoonful missing.

She also likes drinking with an open cup. We'd prefer covered cups as that's less messy. (She can drink fine. But sometimes she loses her concentration and she's not fully aware of how gravity works on liquids.)

She does like eating by herself. And she seems to prefer the table. It looks like the high chair might be on its way out. (She also is likely to dance in the high chair. That makes us nervous.)

Communication continues to improve. The other day she wanted grape juice. I told her she couldn't have any unless she put on a bib and she let me put on the bib. She didn't fight me off as I'd gotten used to.

And now she can talk in brief sentences. "I want pizza," is one. Yesterday she asked for breakfast.

One of her favorite books is Polar Bear, Polar Bear by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. I once saw her "reading" it. She obviously can't read the words, but she was babbling in the rhythm that we read the book to her.

When she was younger she'd do something called a "tushie dance." Now she has a variation on that. When she sees a box of diaper wipes, she'll start sitting down on it and then bouncing back up. She really enjoys that (and the attention it gets) and gives us great laughs when she starts bouncing.

On Shabbos, one of her brothers was singing. She went over to the couch where he was and started hitting the couch in rhythm with the song. Eventually she started trying to sing along with him.

Oh, and it looks like we finally have the first tooth. She's taken her good old time, but it looks like a tooth on the bottom is finally breaking through.

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