Leah appears to have discovered that she can control her hands. I am very much in favor of this, as it seems to me that to get anywhere in life, this is something she needs to know.
(I know, I know - I've seen the people who put paintbrushes in their mouths and make masterpieces, too. But if genetics has anything to say about it, Leah will be terrible at art.)
My daughter and I have different strategies in mind for honing and perfecting this new skill. She wants to spend a lot of time very slowly putting her hand in her mouth, then taking it out, and repeating this action until she stops hitting herself in the face. She seems determined to get the entire fist in her mouth, and while she's been encouraged on numerous occasions to aim for just the thumb, it seems she's determined to prove she can pull this trick off. Someday, maybe she'll enter a beauty contest a la "Little Miss Sunshine." Or maybe she'll just be fun at parties.
I have tried for days to make that not sound dirty. Sorry, folks. It is what it is.
I, meanwhile, have invented a game I call "Fishing for Leah," whereby I dangle a chain of brightly colored oval links above her until she grabs for it.
Remember when she was boring? Those days are over. Now she's just unaware enough to unwittingly be my dancing monkey.
Sweet.
