baby-leveling (with a healthy dose of the cute)
"me?" she queries?
as many of you know, we have been putting little bit in front of the computer with the "gram in the box" since she was 6 weeks old; we really should make an ichat commericial or something. at 5 months she knew my mom well enough to go to her after a long day of travel while i got baggage. at 9 months she spent an evening visiting with her and 40 strangers when i showed up in the middle of the church potluck.
this morning, we were on with the grams at 730 am, since we are still largely on EDT. she did fine, and we left it and moved on to other things like BREAKFAST! and JUMPING! and MARACAS! an hour later, andrew and i were having our bi-annual argument about the term science fiction (these are the things that keep a marriage alive) and annika was acting oddly. she kept staring at the computer screen (aka our television) and banging her fists. it took a while, but i finnaly sussed that she was making the sign for "more"; usually she correctly does the right hand, and puts the thumb-finger combo into an open left palm. this time, she had fists that she banged together. but more what? was she hungry, thirsty...or holy shit has she put it all together and decided that she wanted more grams, more television that talked to her?!?! we instantly fired it back up, and yep, it seems that is what was desired.
there are just so many things that had to fall into place in her brain for that little moment. it really just boggles my mind, wondering how her mind works.
