I am always amazed by the fact that my daughter changes so much every single day. One morning, she woke up and starting smiling. Then, one morning, she woke up and started cooing. I am not sure what happens during the night when she dreams. But when she wakes up, suddenly she has acquired a new skill. Today it was the ability to use her thumb. What a wondrous feat for such a small being. I was so proud of her, so I started giving her different things to grab. The phone…she dialed some random numbers and I started to fear the “she might call China” tale. I handed her a packaged fortune cookie, which she somehow knew was food and it went straight into her mouth. See, not only does she now have the ability to pick up the objects of her desire, somehow she actually knows what their intended uses are. I would suggest that it might be from her observations of us using the objects…but this was my first encounter with a fortune cookie since giving birth to her. She is so amazing, that sometimes I think that she might just know more than I do. Now that she has discovered the wonders of the opposable thumb, she is grabbing things that I never thought she would want to grab. “Uh-oh”, I said to the other half, “she’s got the computer cord!” What a strange new world we are discovering together. It changes everyday.
