tawbubby

First off, cute Daphne in a little bathrobe.

All four of us went out to dinner tonight at Friendly’s. No one cried at our table, and no one from another table wished they were sitting somewhere else. So it was a success! Amelia tried to drink her lemonade with a sugar-packet-straw.

She also got her finger stuck in the straw hole and it hurt her a little to pull it back out against the four pokey pieces of plastic.

Little Daphne just sat quietly in her car seat, looking around. Towards the end she had some fun with her giggly bug toy.

We miss our favorite diner in Rockville…need to find something like that here.

Daphne is making some great sounds for the past two weeks (see first picture for the action shot). This week they became more Chewbacca-like. Sort of in the back of her throat and sometimes her sounds make her cough or gag! Sometimes they are REALLY loud too.

The other cool thing is that Daphne notices Amelia now. She turned so fast to Amelia’s voice one day this week, almost 180 degrees. Amelia has also noticed that Daphne is looking at her- which makes her interact more with Daphne. She made her tea last week, shares play food with her, and tells her sweet things. I guess Amelia did those things before, but now Daphne watches for a little while and sometimes reacts. Amelia even got a couple smiles, though she is rarely around long enough to catch them.

Happy Amelia seems to be back. We’ve been through probably half a dozen phases of different attention-getting tricks recently. Tantrums (maybe 3 in November), whining, testing us, crying (Daphne cries and gets attention…), screeching (happy, looking-for-a-reaction screeching) and finally— being silly. I love this one! She does something or says something that makes us laugh all the time. Now she has started doing that funny thing several times to make us laugh more. It’s much better than crying. I can’t even remember what she said at dinner last night that made us all laugh. She tried it a couple more times. I hope this phase lasts until college!

She exclaimed “I want to help!” several times this week when I was dusting, giving the dogs water, vacuuming, etc. Today she carried a small piece of firewood from the side of our house to Fafa’s car, and carried another piece inside to the fireplace. Later, she dragged each grocery bag (6) from the front door to the kitchen, and was soooooo proud of herself. I hope that sticks around too!