new tricks

Let's be clear. Things Dottie doesn't do yet: crawl, walk, or feed herself at all. She's working on crawling (mostly goes backward after lots of complaining), she's a champion stander and is starting to pull herself up a bit. The food thing confounds us. She can't figure out how to open her hand once it gets to her mouth (usually because we've placed it there, with the food in it.) It's very strange. She likes to pick food bits up off her tray, and pitch them over the side. It doesn't occur to her that they could go into her mouth. But I figure, she'll get it eventually. Either that, or I'll start really worrying in another month or so.

However, she will, after months of struggle and flat out refusing to do so, roll onto her stomach. In fact, I find her sleeping in that position quite often. That's bad, isn't it? But how can you stop it once she does it in her sleep? She's always slept on her side, from as soon as she could kick her legs up and over. So, I figure, he face is basically in the same place as it was from when she slept on her side in relation to the mattress. And it wakes her up sometimes. I think she's horrified when she wakes up and realizes she was on her stomach makes her freak out.

Dottie loves to wave. She waves hello, and mostly goodbye, although goodbye confuses her, and sometimes she waves after we've left. However, she does lots of waving at the cat. Which leads me to believe that it isn't so much a friendly wave, as "c'mere so I can grab ya".

Also, she knows how to play ball. She flaps her arms up and down so she can hit the ball, and it rolls. And she does it most every time you send it her way. Ah, so proud. "Oh yeah, so what that your kid knows his letters...my kid's going to be a professional Bowler!"