Margot’s Firsts

Flynn is getting a lot of “baby glory” right now since he was the first to crawl and the first to take his first steps, etc.  And he’s certainly very, . . . um, . . . adventurous. 

Margot, on the other hand, is more quiet, more calm, more subdued.  She often plays on her own – “far from the madding crowd” (i.e., her more boisterous brother and older sister -- and you will find her by herself closely studying a toy or whatever else she might have picked up, turning it over in her little hands. “I wonder what this does . . . .," she seems to be thinking.  She’s definitely a thinker. 

Her development has blossomed in subtle ways.  For example, she now perceives the connections between objects and their functions.  She picks up a hairbrush and touches it to her head.  She picks up a shirt and puts it on top of her head.  She picks up a bottle and gestures it toward your mouth, or she picks up a baby-wipe and waves it toward your face.  She also waves back when you wave at her - sometimes.    

This weekend I gathered up in a single basket all the toys that will help her start to learn her colors and shapes and how different pieces fit together, toys which until now have been scattered about the house in pieces or up in Cornelia’s closet. 

 

 

Margot and Papa, August 30, 2014