The forty-fourth week

This week we've been settling back in after several weeks of holiday activity. The tree has been taken down, but Madeline still casts a lingering finger point to the corner of the living room where it once stood when I ask "where's the Christmas tree?" (She always pointed at it when it came into her view or when I said the words "Christmas tree.") She knows where it was, but likely its memory will fade in the coming days.

Much of our playtime these days is spent in variations of hide-and-seek or peekaboo. Often Madeline will crawl around a chair, ottoman or other large piece of furniture and peek tentatively from behind the object to see if mommy or daddy is still there. When we see her peek we usually exclaim something, and she erupts in laughter and either crawls quickly toward us or shimmies back around the object to peek from the other side.

I took this video while was I was sitting at the dining room table and Madeline and Lacey played peekaboo on either side of me. You can see Madeline peeking around me to find mommy and how she reacts when Lacey pops up.