You Should Be Dancing (Yeah)

Anyone remember the Bee Gees? (Does anyone notice that I try to use song titles as my blog titles? Due to lack of imagination, usually.)

In the past week, Wonder Week 44 has served Pequita well. She has learned how to (quickly) climb the steep staircase we have, drink from a water fountain, and find things that are hiding inside and under other objects. She also has clearly used sign language to ask to nurse, which is super. And just last night, she learned to dance. It seemed to happen quite organically, at a mom's group potluck we attended with many other nice couples and their kids. She was alone with Homestead Mama and figured out how to make a battery-operated toy play music. As soon as the Latin beat kicked in, H-Mama said she started to bop back and forth on her knees to the tune. She has learned to do that to the neglecto-saucer music today - video for proof follows. She dances and H-Mama and I sit around her covering our mouths with our hands trying not to let our delighted mirth disturb her inner beat. It is hysterical and very cute.



She has also developed an awareness of her own smile, and now when the camera is pointed at her she SMILES with her brain = a little less happy looking, a little more manic. We call it monkey face. She's also cutting two more teeth, each flanking the bottom two she grew first. This helps explain her sleep difficulties and her unwillingness to eat much food; she's preferred breast milk for the last week. Time is flying way too fast.