As Elsa comes up on two months old, she’s starting to exhibit all sort of new behaviors and skills. It seems that she learns something new almost every day now.
Since she was a few weeks old, Elsa would do little bits of “baby talk,” but over the last two weeks she’s become downright chatty. She’ll sit in her chair and talk and talk with us, sometimes for a half hour at a time. We don’t know exactly what she’s saying, but she’s markedly expressive and animated, both in her vocal inflections and her facial expressions.
She’s also learning to reliably grasp her first object: a beautiful silver rattle that was a gift from Lynne’s cousin Carolyn and her family Harry, Michael (our ring bearer), and David. It’s just the perfect size for her little hands to clasp, and it makes an entrancing jingling sound which she loves.
All that said, what Elsa is most interested in is trying to figure out a way to stick the rattle in her mouth.
She’s not quite coordinated enough to target her mouth accurately yet (not to mention that her mouth is way too small to fit the rattle in anyway), but we are consistently amused with watching her try.
Here are a few minutes of video of Elsa playing around with her rattle:
February 21st, 2009 at 1:53 am
She’s a doll, you guys are apparently parenting very well so far…keep up the good work and enjoy.