More on Morgan

After the last post about Morgan, I thought of more things that are new lately. There are actually new things almost daily around here, really. I think she’s at such a fun age!

She wants to explore everything! I sometimes sew with her on my lap (since she’ll only let me put her down for about 30 seconds) and now she likes touching and exploring the machine. So one day I put the needle all the way down and let her touch and grab whatever she wanted. I think she had fun.

She has started using her fingers, not just her hands, which is so neat to watch. She has been on a big eating kick lately–she seems to go back and forth, interested or not interested in solid foods, but she’s definitely interested now. We’ve started giving her small things she can feed herself, and she loves it. Except now, of course, she doesn’t like being fed. She only wants to feed herself. It’s hard to feed yourself purees of food when you can’t quite do the spoon yourself, though. She winds up spreading it all over, which is okay too. A little bit probably does get into her mouth. Hehe. Now that she’ll sit and feed herself, I can actually set her down for a minute and eat my own food. Whoa. It feels revolutionary.

This face cracks me up. I know it’s blurry (moving target–she spied my camera and dove for it), but it’s too funny. Notice how Toby just watches us as though we’re crazy? Yeah.

So the other thing about using her hands and fingers: We’ve read Pat the Bunny for a long time, and usually I help her pat the bunny, play peek a boo with Paul, touch Daddy’s scratchy face, etc. If you haven’t read the book, that sentence probably didn’t make a lot of sense. Well, suddenly she does it herself. As I read the bunny page, she reached with her little pointer finger and pat the bunny all by herself, and she likes lifting the cloth to play peek a boo with Paul. Kills me. Too cute. I’ll try to get a picture of this sometime.

Toby is by far still her favorite. She shrieks with excitement when she sees him or gets close enough to touch him. Of course Toby has learned that she grabs and runs away still, generally just watching her wearily from a distance. Hopefully someday he’ll like her as much as she adores him.

Morgan is still very attached to me, but she’s started acting that way with Adrian more, too, which I think is so cute. When he leaves the room we’re in, she calls after him, watching the door, and then gets really excited when he comes back. It’s so sweet to see.