Little EC (not so little anymore…) just graduated from size 2 to size 3 diapers. I have one of each size that she’s worn, and the size N just seems impossibly tiny.

She also wolfed down almost half a pear today. Turns out she’ll eat almost anything if it is mixed with enough of mother’s milk. I had been giving her bananas recently, but she had become “irregular”…maybe as a result, maybe coincidentally…and I stopped for a couple weeks to give her gut a chance to settle down. After eating the pears, she chewed expectantly on the spoon that I gave her to play with, clearly disappointed that nothing more was coming out of it.

In other news, she can spin now. I leave her on her tummy, surrounded by toys, and soon I’ll find her 180 degrees different, grabbing the toy she likes best.

The most interesting thing that she does recently is using mirrors as tools. We have mirrors all over the cabinets in the bedrooms, and the other day I had her on the floor, stomach down, and I was talking to her and walking about. She would push up and follow me with her gaze as I moved to her right. She’s fine turning to the right. But when I’d get too far to the left, she’d turn all the way back to the right, where the mirrors are, and find me in the mirror…and then follow me around there, until I got back to a place where she felt comfortable following me in person. It’s always entertaining to see her play with herself in a mirror, but it’s downright fascinating to see her consciously make use of the mirror as a way of being lazy. There aren’t too many tools that she can make use of with only gross motor skills to work with…most require some amount of manual dexterity. But she’s got this one down.