Now we area sitting

First off, happy new year! Looking back, I'm a bit startled to find I started this in 2010. Admittedly, it was the end of 2010, and now it's the start of 2012, but it's interesting to watch how this gestation thing has evolved from watching the wife and guessing at what was going on insider her, to watching the child and guessing at what is going on inside her mind.

I'm impressed how fast the wee one's picking up things. Literally, in places. She's gotten quite good at grabbing. She can pick up toys pretty well now. Or various other things like nappies, towels, clothes, anything remotely near where she's sat. Tonight I was feeding her and she surprised me by grabbing the bottle, and holding on to it with both hands. I eventually let go and she kept holding on, and drinking. Which is really novel since she's refused to drink out of a bottle for weeks, until yesterday. And now she's drinking and holding the thing. She needed a bit of hinting about tilting it to get more as it empties, but she was firmly and clearly feeding herself. I'm rather proud.

In other skills news, she can also sit. She can't get in a sitting position on her own, but she can stay sitting for a while til she gets tired. She finally mastered that on Sunday. It certainly made getting her in position with the Skype video call too the grandparents much easier.

Most interesting is she now responds to her name. I'm still shocked at that. I say her name and she turns and looks at me. I can say other things and she won't turn. Not in the same way. Well, sometimes she responds the same way, like when I say Doodlehead. But she does not respond at all when it's L's name, even if I use the same tone. Clearly I need to experiment more with this one.