Tongues and Stuff

Evie is such a smart little girl and has been learning by leaps and bounds. She's learned how to roll back and forth on purpose, and now she'll quietly roll onto her tummy until somebody notices, and then when I make a big deal about it, she just grins so big and looks so proud of herself. Of course, she grins a lot anyway; she's such a super cheerful baby. In fact, last Wednesday, on the 7th, she was the giddiest I've ever seen her. She laughed at everything and we played all day. She refused to take a single nap, but she was in such a good mood that I finally just let her stay awake and play instead.

Lately, Evie has been fixated on faces, especially mouths, and she's been learning to imitate what she sees and hears. She loves to stick out her tongue and blow raspberries, and she thinks it's funny when other people blow raspberries back at her. Also, just last night, I caught a couple of videos of her making the same popping noises with her lips that I mentioned in this post:

She's been interested in "real" food for awhile now, so we've been putting things on our fingers and letting her suck them off, and she's been very excited about everything she's tasted so far. So far, she's tried ice cream, apples, alfredo sauce, breakfast cocoa, and raspberry filling. I made cornbread last week, and she loved it; in fact, she was getting grouchy with her Uncle John when he took bites for himself instead of giving her more cornbread crumbs! I've also broken off tiny pieces of other bready food to dissolve in her mouth like biscuits, fortune cookies, and doughnuts. We tried to spoon-feed her some mashed potatoes a couple of weeks ago, but while she seemed interested, she didn't yet understand how to move the entire spoonful of food to the back of her mouth. Finally, this past weekend, we tried giving her actual "baby food": Green Beans! She was enthusiastic, at first, but she still hasn't decided how she feels about them. She has been learning how to swallow them, though, and she sure is excited to be eating real food like a big girl!