After the first video of Leilani talking, she quickly stopped sticking out her tongue when vocalizing. She still makes mostly the same ahhs and ohhs, sometimes with a few other multisyllables. But she does it several times a day, sometimes when interacting with us, sometimes on her own.
In this video, she is playing in her new “gym” that we had to buy for her after she liked Ian’s so much. I’m a bit ambivalent about surrounding her with bright, colorful and noisy playthings, sometimes she seems over-stimulated. But maybe that’s what she needs to develop motor skills, because she definitely interacts with it more than anything else before. She’s absorbing new sensations and learning new motions all the time, so she probably gets frustrated at not being able to do everything she wants. Imagine if every motion was new and you had to practice and learn it.
Hi!
I am very happy to see your beautiful daughter
talking to toys around her, sometimes trying
even to taste them!
Aloha from Sapporo, Japan
Aloha Mieko,
nice to hear from you again! We are so happy with Leilani, we just had a really great day, went to Lihue and walked around in a lot of gardens and prettty places, everything is a first for her…
A Hui Hou
Sonja