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[Previous entry: "Good morning. Your house is ugly."] [Next entry: "Lurch"] 04/17/2008: "The New Moves"
Dessa's becoming a real mover and shaker these days. She's working on her standing skills and can go for up to half a minute or so with no support. Her recovery skills are getting better by the day so she can balance for longer and longer times, and now all she wants to do is stand up. She fights when we try to hold her and she will have nothing to do with sitting and playing with her toys anymore. She'd rather stand and try to bend down to reach them, thanks. You can see in her face that she's dying to walk across the room but she knows she can't quite do it yet. It's frustrating to her.  The cat could not be reached for comment. She's also working on a new form of peekaboo, which is turning her top half to the side to hide behind stationary objects, or sometimes nothing at all. She'll do it whenever you (or anyone in the room, including on TV), says, "Peekaboo!" She honestly thinks she's hiding when she does this:  The kid is all into kisses now, too. She stays absolutely still for Eskimo kisses - it's hilarious. You say, "Dessa, give me Eskimo kisses" and she stops and concentrates so you can move in and rub noses. She doesn't rub back yet, but she freezes completely and waits. It's too much. And she laughs like anything when I give her butterfly kisses. Thinks it's a riot. So with all the new interaction, we have a new bedtime routine. For Easter I got her one of those Little Golden books with Elmo and before bed we read it together. At the end of the book Elmo asks for a kiss and at first I leaned the book toward her and sort of tapped her nose with it to indicate a kiss. That lasted about 2 nights. Now every page she sees Elmo on, she leans forward to kiss (mouth wide open). It's too cute. There's also a page where one of the Muppets is playing peekaboo with another and when we reach that one, she turns her whole body as if she's playing peekaboo too. She's totally into it and won't go to bed now unless she's had her story. I know because I tried and it wasn't pretty. Fortunately it's a short book. I'm no fool. |
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