6 months and 21 days
Nov. 21st, 2004 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheToday, as we were sharing the fumes from a nice tea-tree decongesting bath (I in the bath, Linnea perched on Rob's lap), she learned to clap.
First she accidentally clapped in excitement at being in close proximity to a bath, and then she accidentally clapped from sheer excitement at having clapped, and then she did it deliberately. She's been doing it deliberately on and off ever since, and although sometimes her fingers still get in the way, there is usually a small, baby-sized clap noise from her corner of the universe.
I feel very proud; such well-honed clapping skills surely indicate that she is a genius, and only clapping so that her ears grow accustomed ot the sound of the applause which will foillow her where ever she goes, fulfilling all my abandoned ambitions, nobly disregarding the inevitable consequences to her therapy bills...
Or maybe not.
But she can clap, my baby! Isn't she marvellous?
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Date: 2004-11-21 06:24 pm (UTC)And I think she's a genius. Of course she is - look at her parents :-)
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Date: 2004-11-21 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-21 06:33 pm (UTC)YoungBloke is clapping Linnea's skills as I type. He is impressed - he was a late clapper himself!
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Date: 2004-11-21 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-21 07:03 pm (UTC)You're making me broody for tiggle to be able to clap now *g*
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Date: 2004-11-21 07:58 pm (UTC)I can't wait for clapping... Gabriel looks to Linnea to show him the development way! :-)
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Date: 2004-11-21 08:16 pm (UTC)Wow, aren't hands the GREATEST?! It's *amazing* what you can do with hands.
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Date: 2004-11-21 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-21 08:34 pm (UTC)You gotta warm up to that incessant applause slow-like, yes.
Also: what an interesting thing to think might be a strong innate inclination. To clap!
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Date: 2004-11-21 08:44 pm (UTC)Re: 6 months and 21 days
Date: 2004-11-21 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-21 09:44 pm (UTC)And there isn't a her-or-me option; we come as a set, these days.
Gosh, I'm dreading surgical separation.
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Date: 2004-11-21 10:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 08:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 03:48 pm (UTC)We couldn't find one for Jo Anna, but Liam-as-a-baby loved those noise-sensitive dancing plants: baby makes noise and something moves!
Clapping
Date: 2004-11-22 10:19 pm (UTC)