She's become quite enamoured of hats. She puts them on (properly) when she finds them on the floor. She likes to take them off and throw them away when we're out walking, but I'm sure that's just attention getting. Last night she grabbed a hat when I picked her up to rock her to sleep. She put it on and lay down on my shoulder. She grabbed it back when I tried to take it off her, so it's in her bed now. I was half expecting her to put it on when she woke up this morning.
Play-school is a hit; we got a set of 4 DVDs on Sunday, and she's watched a couple of them now. I think they're quite good; lots of fun activities. TV does 2 things right now; encourages Ellie want to stand, and gives me a 40 minute break to drink my coffee and wake up.
She stands and cruises round the coffee table very well. I've pulled it a bit closer to the sofa, to see if she'll cruise from one to the other. I don't think so, yet. _Gross Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome_ is quite good; lots of good suggestions to encourage proper development. Honestly, I've read very little about development in the last 6 months-- Ellie seemed to be doing well, and I don't want to obsess about everything.
She doesn't like to do assisted standing; when I hold my thumbs out for her to grab she lifts up, but then she pulls her legs off the ground; she wants to be picked up. Keep trying.
She fed herself breakfast today. I missed it actually-- put down the plate and rushed off to attend to morning ablutions. I was interested in what she would do-- the Sufi's say "Learning happens through necessity, therefore increase necessity". I came back a few minutes later to see the bowl empty, and her holding a spoon in each hand. She wasn't even very dirty. The floor seemed mostly clean, there was a bit more than usual in the chair, but she seems to have gotten most of it into her. I bet she used her hands when I wasn't looking, but I think she also used her spoon.
I was expecting her to catch on to feeding herself with a spoon within a couple of weeks-- it's been months. Obviously it's not as easy as it seems. Watching her proves it-- there's quite a combination of flexible grasp, finger, wrist and arm coordination, with all those dimensions of movement. Usually she can get some on the spoon (when it's not upside-down) lift it to her mouth-- but she seems to sort of slurp it out of the spoon rather than using her mouth to pull the food off. She sort of mashes the spoon to her face. It will come.
We got some foam numbers on Sunday as well; they just stick onto smooth surfaces when wet (more bath toys!). She really loved them! Moved them all around the bath, and when we got out she had to take some with her when she was drying. She held them (well dropped them and picked them up again, and again) all through being dried and dressed. She's crawling around the floor with a small handful of them as I write this.
Play-school is a hit; we got a set of 4 DVDs on Sunday, and she's watched a couple of them now. I think they're quite good; lots of fun activities. TV does 2 things right now; encourages Ellie want to stand, and gives me a 40 minute break to drink my coffee and wake up.
She stands and cruises round the coffee table very well. I've pulled it a bit closer to the sofa, to see if she'll cruise from one to the other. I don't think so, yet. _Gross Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome_ is quite good; lots of good suggestions to encourage proper development. Honestly, I've read very little about development in the last 6 months-- Ellie seemed to be doing well, and I don't want to obsess about everything.
She doesn't like to do assisted standing; when I hold my thumbs out for her to grab she lifts up, but then she pulls her legs off the ground; she wants to be picked up. Keep trying.
She fed herself breakfast today. I missed it actually-- put down the plate and rushed off to attend to morning ablutions. I was interested in what she would do-- the Sufi's say "Learning happens through necessity, therefore increase necessity". I came back a few minutes later to see the bowl empty, and her holding a spoon in each hand. She wasn't even very dirty. The floor seemed mostly clean, there was a bit more than usual in the chair, but she seems to have gotten most of it into her. I bet she used her hands when I wasn't looking, but I think she also used her spoon.
I was expecting her to catch on to feeding herself with a spoon within a couple of weeks-- it's been months. Obviously it's not as easy as it seems. Watching her proves it-- there's quite a combination of flexible grasp, finger, wrist and arm coordination, with all those dimensions of movement. Usually she can get some on the spoon (when it's not upside-down) lift it to her mouth-- but she seems to sort of slurp it out of the spoon rather than using her mouth to pull the food off. She sort of mashes the spoon to her face. It will come.
We got some foam numbers on Sunday as well; they just stick onto smooth surfaces when wet (more bath toys!). She really loved them! Moved them all around the bath, and when we got out she had to take some with her when she was drying. She held them (well dropped them and picked them up again, and again) all through being dried and dressed. She's crawling around the floor with a small handful of them as I write this.
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