Sunday, May 16, 2010

Life is a bath toy; thought for the day

In the last week I've noticed that Baby Sharon is now interested in bath toys. This means she tries to grab them, and if they're out of her grasp, she'll lean forward from her seat and try to get them that way.

On further reflection, the ability to do this, seems to require several constituent parts; spatial recognition (seeing what it is), desire for objects (wanting the toy) and the knowledge and ability to influence your environment (realize you can get it, and reaching for it). On the whole, an amazingly complex set of things. All to grab a floating pig.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

i can has cheezburger?

Big step today. Baby Sharon took her first meal of "solid" food. Of course, in this context "solid" is breast milk + rice cereal, but hell, it counts. Much to all of our surprise she was actually pretty willing to take the spoon and eat that way. As with all of us Abramsons, she likes food.