Chaotic Suppertime

All of the sudden, our little girl is just seeming so much older.  She is really enjoying her toys and reaches for them with both hands.  Everything goes straight to her mouth. She watches us eat and reaches for my coffee cup.  She is still nursing and I just feel so happy and fulfilled when I see her getting positively chubby little legs!  We've just started giving her little tastes of food.  She loves it.  Here she is getting a bit of applesauce and sweet potatoes at supper the other night.

We've had to work to get her to laugh, usually with some tickling involved, but in the past week she has been finding humor in the boys. She's learning that laughing is fun. So often before, she would chuckle if we strongly encouraged it, but she always looked like the chuckle startled her and she wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not.  The other night at bedtime I took her into the boys' room. She took one look at Eli and started cracking up. Then bedtime was greatly delayed as they snorted and sniffed and made all manner of noises and contortions to keep her laughing. The next night I took her into their room and she thought it was funny again. So sometimes now she'll start laughing, though it seems to take her a bit to remember how. We think she's thinking, "Oh yeah, I remember those weird noises I made were fun...Now how did I do it?" So she starts out haltingly and then remembers and takes off again.  Enjoy!