Big girl food

The thing about a kid like Maria (now that she's two, I guess I can't keep saying "a BABY like Maria") is that we get so focussed on her deficits that things fall by the wayside. For example, it occured to us recently that she's two years old and still eating pureed muck. So Cathy has started feeding her chunkier stuff like pasta and diced fruit. Maria just loves it. It's hard to tell if she actually chews it, but she enjoys it. She's been eating more lately, which may be the new food or it may be another growth spurt.

Her movements have been very good lately. She can get up on her hands and knees by herself. Her floor sitting is still erratic, but she can do it if she wants to. She seems to be moving more deliberately rather than just flailing around. The OT came by today and she helped Maria roll a ball back and forth to Cathy. A couple of times Maria managed to push the ball away with no help! She seems to understand the concept of movement better than before, even though she's still a little shaky on the practice.

I have several times heard what Cathy thinks is a laugh and I think she's right. It's not a ha-ha laugh just a wordless "huuuuuh", but her mood clearly progresses from small smile to big smile to "laugh" every time. The most common time she does it is when she is anticipating something like being tickled or touched with something cold. We'll have to try getting it on video one of these days.