Over the past several days we've noticed that Madeline is more engaged with her environment than before. Instead of her gaze jumping randomly around the room, she'll focus on an object and study it. She pays more attention to toys that we display in front of her, and she's entranced by the mobile above her bed and the lights on her jungle adventure mat, which she used to ignore.
This weekend I even saw her smiling and laughing at the mobile above her swing, which is made up of simple, colorful shapes Lacey cut out of construction paper. I think a fellow blogging dad said it well: "Nothing strips a fresh parent of delusions regarding the depth of the emotional attachment of his child faster than seeing her give total adoration and allegiance to a cardboard disk."
Well, at least she's happy.
1 comment:
Wait until her 2nd or maybe 3rd Christmas, when she disregards the toy with which you just knew (and envisioned) her being enraptured and plays with the box for hours upon end. File this comment in the "Just buy a box" file ;)
Granddaddy Glover
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