Putting a foot forward

This evening I am pleased to report independently verified (ie Daddyfeatures saw her do it too) cruising along the footstools.

The cat is looking increasingly worried at these new developments in mobility!

A wave of development

As I said in an earlier post, the longer you leave between blogs, the more things you have to talk about. Talia has been making fantastic progress in the past few weeks.

• Since crawling (her technique is beautiful), she has worked out how to pull herself up on the footstool we use as a table for one of her favourite toys, and is also trying to pull herself up on a few other things (like her mother, for example!)
• In just the past few days she has also started to be able to sit herself down from a standing position in a slightly more controlled fashion than in the past, when she just put her bum backwards and let gravity take its course.
• She has started to put blocks and balls IN to a box, not just take them out.
• She will put blocks and balls through posting holes in a home-made shape sorter (with a bit of encouragement)
• She can post balls and push buttons to make the music start on her favourite toy.
• Much to my delight, she has started giving the hand sign for milk. She uses it to mean “I want” or “give me” and it doesn’t always refer to milk, but it’s a major step forward and one I am very pleased about.
• She will give me an object if I ask for it and point to my open hand. (I have to stop myself signing for milk at the same time!!)
• She’s banging two objects together more frequently, which is (hopefully) a precurser to clapping.
• Her babbling is coming along nicely, with lots of nan-nan, although sadly (for me) no mum-mum since the first week she did it.
• Tooth number 6 is now through, so she has four along the top jaw and the 2 middle ones in the bottom jaw.

We are now trying to encourage her to cruise along 2 adjacent footstools. At present her hands move along but her feet stay planted. We also encourage her to walk while we hold her hands, which leads to some fabulous “ministry of silly walks” exercises.

The doting parents just got even dottier…