Today Teresa showed me how well she can grab. I was holding her in the Baby Bjorn and was rummaging in the fridge when I heard the toy she had been holding clatter to the floor. I peeked around her head and saw that she had grabbed an open grape juice concentrate container and had managed to get it to her mouth and was about to drink it! She's been working on this skill with gusto using her sippy cup and has managed to feed herself pretty well that way, but I didn't realize how transferable that skill was! Later, when she was on the changing table, she managed to grab her foot and chew on her toes. It was pretty funny because she was disappointed not to be able to shove her entire foot in her mouth. I think the whole grab and stuff thing means more teething. I can barely see the tip of another tooth on the bottom.
I'm glad to have such amusements today. It's been a little stressful for me because Georgia has a stomach flu sort of thing and the last time she had it (more than a year ago) it turned out to be some weird super strep and she wound up in the hospital for a week. Happily, she was really not sick at all between then and now, due to, I hope, our renewed commitment to getting her to eat vegetables every day. I've been slacking off on that front lately and now feel amazingly guilty that she's sick so soon after the slacking occured.
Posted by Bahiyyih at September 19, 2005 01:52 PMOy! We might have had trouble getting her back to sweet potato and squash if she had managed to get some. Not to mention the purple stains on the Baby Bjorn.
Posted by: Billy at September 19, 2005 02:52 PM