One of Lily’s new skills/obsessions/hobbies is collecting things. No, I’m not talking about Chinese bootlegs of James Bond movies or 657 different live renditions of Pearl Jam’s Daughter like someone else I know would. [Hahaha…since I am the only one who posts in this family, I can completely gloss over my own collecting “issues,” as I am not legally obligated to post a picture of my craft room for you. So there!] Anyway, what I mean is that Lily has suddenly realized that she can carry more than two things at once.
I know, this is advanced stuff.
In months prior, you could hand her one object – let’s say it’s a block. She would pick it up with one hand. Then, you could hand her a second block, and she would take it with the other hand. Lily would be quite content with her two blocks, and would proceed to shake them, tap them together, stuff them into her mouth, or in other ways play with them as if she had everything a girl could want, and couldn’t possibly want anything more.
And then, if you were feeling particularly difficult, you could bring her world crashing down around her ears.
You could try to give her a third block.
You could see the little wheels turning in her head as she looked from block #1 to block #2 to this outsider…block #3.
Block 1.
Block 2.
Block 3?
Well then you had better duck, because blocks 1 and 2 would soon be headed straight for whichever body part happened to be most sensitive at the time (be it a nose, funny bone, kneecap, whatever…her accidental accuracy was painful at times). Basically, the thought of holding THREE objects with only TWO hands pretty much blew a circuit in her cute little baby brain, thus causing her to immediately jettison all items she was holding so that she could start all over and perhaps solve life’s greatest 3 objects / 2 hands riddle.
Last week, however, I realized that Lily has finally realized how to hold multiple objects by trapping some of them against her body with her arm (or holding two in one hand if the items were small/thin enough), thus freeing up one hand to accept items over and above the first two. She spend a good 10 minutes at our last library class trying to hold onto three books at once. It was so cute/sad, because just when she would finally get the third book and then clamp three of them together with both hands, the middle book would slip out and she’d have to start all over. Since then, she is always trying to pick up multiples of things – books, blocks, balls, dolls and stuffed animals, etc.
Like today, for example. She tried to pick up 2 baby dolls.
She succeeded, and then walked around the kitchen giggling to herself while hugging both dolls.
And then she, ummm, ate the hair on one doll.
And then she put them in her baby doll stroller…
…over and over again.
Ummm…and then she pointed at me?
Yeah, come to think of it, these pictures aren’t, strictly speaking, relevant to the topic of this post.
But does anyone really care? :-)
Love,
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