7/26/02
These few days, Lily is trying to do things for herself... Trying to feed herself with a spoon, and trying to dress herself. She usually would eat few spoonful from my hand. Maybe she think that she has learn it all, she would then refuse to eat any more, insisted on taking spoon from my hand. Then she would try to scoop some food, bring it towards her mouth, turn the spoon upside down first, and then put in her mouth... So you see, the food would get on the table or her belly before get into her mouth! But she would try to improve the skill next time... so she would turn the spoon a bit less, and get a little bit of food left for her mouth. Thank God she would let me put some food in her mouth at the same time using another spoon.
Now can you imagine how she does with drinking from a cup? She would do the same thing, holding the cup with both hands, turn it upside down first, then put it to her mouth... So the first cup was usually on her dress, then she would manage to drink some from the second cup... Somehow, she always like to put her hand into the cup, dip some water, and wipe it on her face and chest. I have no idea what kind of ritual that is.
Oh, since few months ago, she would try to put all kinds of things over her head: my scarf, Vakhtang's shirt, etc. These few days, she would try to put her pants over her head. It was not always hard to have some degree of satisfaction. Yet, it is not always easy to figure out where to put her hands. So she usually wore it on her neck for few seconds before taking it off.
What she does with her dress is another story. She tried to put her legs into her sleeve - both legs in the same sleeve. Then she tried to stand up, only to find out that she was not able to get up or not able to walk. She would then scream very loud, got mad and tried to rip the dress off her legs. The bad news for her was that it would not come off easily. Oh, my poor baby!!! I tried to show her that she should try to put her dress over her head and pants for her legs. But she insisted in doing things HER way, and never make a mistake of that. Maybe one day I will take a picture while she is working on her clothing.
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Oh, another thing she found out that she was not quite able to do was to kiss her own belly, no matter how 'Bucky" it was. But she usually tries her best, and satisfied with a distant kiss.
