Accomplishments
Things my daughter has accomplished this past week or so:
•Rolling over onto her tummy while actually in her crib rather than only when she is out of the crib.
•Sitting up unassisted for little bits at a time.
•Doing a complete non-stop roll tummy to back to tummy in one direction.
•Standing up while holding onto the couch for a few seconds.
•Putting everything she comes in contact with in her mouth. This includes but is not limited to: her hands, her clothes, her toes, burp cloths, towels, blankets, my fingers, my forearm, my hair, my clothes, my nose, my cell phone, Daddy’s fingers, Daddy’s nose, books*, the cordless phone, fingers belonging to various other people, kleenex, paper towels, every toy she can possibly get her hands on, her bottle, most of her food, her bib, and the edge of her high chair tray.
•What she didn’t put in her mouth: the Cheerios I laid so nicely on her high chair tray so that she could practice her fine motor skills by gracefully picking them up and putting them into her mouth. Not even when I held them in my hand in front of her face. Not even when I put them in her tiny little hands (which had I done with any other thing in the entire known universe she would have broken every land speed record known to man getting it in there). Not even when I made the Cheerios tap on the tray and dance and sing silly Cheerio songs. And when I broke down and put one in her mouth so she could see that yes indeed she wouldn’t get in trouble for putting it into her mouth, she spit it out. Remember the above list? She has never, not once, EVER spit any of those things out. But she spit the CHEERIO out. The Cheerio that I have been waiting forever to be able to feed my perfect child. SHE SPIT IT OUT. DO YOU HEAR ME??????????
I think my child is broken. *sigh*
*Okay, she didn’t actually put the books in her mouth. She licked them instead. But I maintain that if they would have fit in her mouth, they would have gone in her mouth, so they stay on the list.
Comment by Rochelle
June 29, 2005 @ 6:27 am
She’s not broken. She knows very well that there are sugar coated cereals out there. You’re just holding out on her.