year one
January 24th, 2005 | Published in Tessavale
In more or less the order you learned them or accomplished them, here are the things you have done over the past year…
Early On
Began sleeping thorugh the night, but this comes and goes depending on your mood, health, hunger, or location. You demonstrated a serious preference for a certain bottle and nipple design.
Held head up. Pushed up on stomach. Rolled over to back. Rolled over to stomach. Rolled over to go places. Sat up. Involuntarily stiffened legs to ’stand’. Voluntarily did the same.
You suck your middle two fingers. You bailed on the pacifier early on.
Traveled to Oklahoma and Texas through Kansas–by car and plane. Went over three 10,000 foot passes in the same day. Still haven’t been to Sea Level.
Mid Way
Started smiling on purpose (before that it more like a kaleidescope of facial expressions until you were mostly serious). Stopped looking over your left shoulder all the time. Appeared to respond to the direction a noise came from instead of just looking deaf. Giggled then laughed. You went through a phase where you loved being startled to laugh. Growling into your tummy still makes you laugh though now like a total maniac.
Around this time you got ‘chatty’ but still had not real words of your own and were not responding to any words even ‘Tessa’ and ‘No!’ though we were sure using them.
[pending]