Lily has always done things her own way, no matter how offbeat or out of step with "normal".
Recently, I have noticed three things about her in particular.
- While she talks, she doesn't "babble". She talks all day, long "sentences" of gibberish punctuated with "Hi!", "Yeah" and "Mum", but no "dadadadada", no repetitive sounds at all. I don't worry because she definitely talks, but it's different.
- She is very clever with her hands. Her pincer grip is awesome, you can't look away for a minute, because she can pick things up as fiddly as grass and coarse sand, and in the mouth they go. She can undo her seat belt and pram belt. She is working out her shape sorter. She owned Duplo for a day and was playing with it for maybe 10 minutes before she was busily trying to snap pieces together. She strokes her books because she loves her Usborne "That's not my" series so much, she hopes they are all touchy-feely. There are other things, but if I mention them, she may just stop speaking to me in her teen years.
- She is totally and utterly gumby from the waist down. A slow roller, and a medium sitter, she is now a slow crawler and stander. She has been bum shuffling for some time, but crawling has, until now, eluded her. She finally worked it out Friday. She sped quickly across the carpet at Grandma's. Backwards.
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