But, here is the copied/pasted list of the first section of the 'Lizzieness' file I started to record the little things Lizzie does. It's easier to keep that up than to write lots of blogs, and I figure it's interesting to at least some of you out there, as well! I'll throw in a few current photos too. I'm not editing it, so I hope it isn't too long. Enjoy!
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During Sept, she tried out lots of new sounds, so she had lots of vowel and consonant sounds while babbling.
Lizzie often talks to her mobile that was hanging above her changing table. It had lots of black and white designs. She especially liked the outline of the little boy face, and would tell it stories, with very expressive faces and sounds, and lots of smiling. Beginning about Oct 1, she no longer looked at the mobile. When we replaced the b/w designs with colored pictures, she again enjoyed her mobile.
For about a week, starting on 1 Oct, Lizzie wouldn’t make her talking noises, only a high-pitched screeching that we termed ‘pterodactyl speech’. This lasted about a week, then went back to normal babbling.
5 Oct – Lizzie turned from her side to her stomach. She tries to sit up by doing a crunch and raising her legs at the same time. Must be good for strengthening her tummy muscles.
10 Oct - Lizzie sometimes spends up to 30 minutes in her play mat, talking to her lion, and manipulating the duck that rattles. Back in early Sept, her time on the mat was only 5 min. She also is now able to catch items even when swinging, and hold onto it, and let it go at will. She can hold onto the swinging duck now too. While on the mat, she often turns herself 360 degrees, by pushing with her feet on the stereo speaker, or coffee table next to the mat. And she also scoots. It looks like she will turn over onto her stomach but hasn’t done it in the mat.
10 Oct – Lizzie likes to hold her toy key ring, then drop it. Then we pick it up and give it to her, and she drops it again. She watches it the whole time, and knows what she’s doing. I think she’s practicing her coordination. Sometimes it gets stuck on her thumb, so she has to tip her hand to make it fall off.
Oct – She likes to help when we change her diaper, holding her legs up or straightening them at the right times.
10 Oct – Lizzie nearly sits without assistance. She can sit for a minute or two before falling to one side. She likes to play with her feet while sitting, and with colorful toys. She tries to put the ring of keys onto her toes, like grandma Claire often did. She is good at taking the keys off of her big toe when grandma Claire puts it on the toe.
11 Oct – Lizzie likes to grab her toes. I think I saw her chewing on her toe once too! She sits and tries to grab them, then holds on and moves her feet around with her hands. She does this while she’s sitting, while she’s laying down, and while I’m holding her.
13 Oct – Lizzie has been sucking on her bottomlip today. She started when she woke up, and often goes ‘hmm, hmm’ with her lip pulled in.
16 Oct – Lizzie definitely knows that the music starts on her play mat when she kicks it. She was determinedly pushing her feet against different parts of the foot pad until it started. Also, over the past month she has started the music in her crib several times, at night or in the morning, when she is bored or wants to go to sleep. To start that music, she has to push a button twice.
18 Oct – Lizzie is 4mo old!
18/19 Oct – Lizzie figured out how to roll over on purpose, while she was supposed to be sleeping. She was with mommy on a retreat in Seoul and was sleeping on a blanket on the chapel floor. When mommy went to check on her, she had rolled out of her wrapping and off the blanket, so at least a few rolls away. That night she wanted to practice rolling over in bed, near mommy but not with mommy’s help! Nobody got much sleep! At home later, she rolls over from her tummy to her back fairly consistently, but doesn’t have much motivation to go the other way – she doesn’t know it can get her closer to fun things yet!
21 Oct – Lizzie played with her book while on her tummy, chewing on the pages and moving it, and closing it. She is getting much stronger, and I think she may actually crawl (I had thought she would walk first). She can hold herself up on her hands/knees for a few seconds when I put her down, and also lifted herself on her hands and toes for a second at one point, like she was doing a real pushup! Mostly she tries to move by pushing her feet on things, she hasn’t figured out the value of her knees yet.
22 Oct – Lizzie can balance herself pretty well while she’s sitting. She puts an arm down in the middle or to one side to help, but can pick up toys and move them without falling over.
And finally, a video of Lizzie playing with her kitty ball in the back of the car!
