Phew! How nice to shift back into talking about Noa - instead of all the yucky battles that we have to fight (I'm sure there will be more, but right now I'm enjoying a quiet moment).
PLUS there are so many great things to share! Here is Noa listing to Daddy read to her. She really seems to like this particular book: Don Juan by Lord Byron. Yep. She really likes it. But she's always had sophisticated tastes. When she was younger some therapists thought she had no attention span because she had no patience for Mary Had a Little Lamb - the truth is what she really wanted to listen to was Pictures at an Exhibition, or maybe something by The Silk Road Ensemble. I took her to listen to them live when she was about two years old. She did a solo in a family drum circle with them and ended up really hitting it off with them - later she got to try a bunch of their instruments. They were very cool.
ANYWAY - while she has always had very sophisticated taste in some things, she has been way behind the curve in so many things that are just basic kiddie milstones, like putting food in your mouth or rolling over... both of which she did last week all on her own!
While she will eat with a spoon, she has never put food to her mouth with her fingers - or licked food off her fingers. But she has been using some hand lotions with different smells, so I was able to get her finger near her mouth this week when she accidently touched her food (she would never let me put her finger in the food on purpose!) And once it was up there, just a little step to touching her lip and realizing that it was yummy. We got 5 or 6 fingers of food in before she decided she'd done enough, but it was a great start!
Then later that afternoon, she just did a little log-roll all by herself on the way to trying to stand up, which was great. Tummy time used to be the most tragic time of all for her and she always hated it; never learned to crawl at all - and while she will occassionally get to hands and knees now, I'd never seen her just roll like that.
Over all, just a lot more self-motivation, which is great but has led to some interesting discoveries as she becomes more adventureous about moving around the apartment. Like the other week when I left her in her play area to take a shower (used to always be a safe bet) and got out my very short shower to find her by the front door, having knocked over an umbrellas stand, playing with a bat. Guess it's time to do that child-proofing other parents are always going on about... hm.
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That is AWESOME! Go, Noa, go! I can sympathize with the missed milestones thing. Nate recently took a 0-18 month milestone test as part of therapy (he's 27 months now) and bombed a lot of it. One section he scored a 0 (out of 5 - it was for speech) and most he got a 2 or a 3. Only in one section did he get a 5, but it was hard to celebrate when looking at the other sections. But every time he does attempt one of the missed milestones on that list, there's a major parade thrown because we worked so hard to get there! Oh, and childproofing? Highly overrated. Noa will figure out how to unchildproof things in record time. ;)
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