Multi-tasking: standing and holding a paci!

Another supercute thing that I hear about from Amelia’s teacher(s) is how much she and a little boy in her class, L, enjoy each other’s company.  They regularly have “lunch dates” now, in which they both sit at the baby-sized table and eat, babbling to each other all the while.  Lately they’ve gotten even fonder of each other, passing toys back and forth across the ballet bar that they like to stand at.

Amelia likes to hang upside-down after nursing, and L really enjoys crawling over to touch her face when she’s upside down, which Amelia finds hilarious.  L, interestingly, hates being upside-down, grabbing at the adult’s shirt who tries to suspend him in such a precarious position.

Amelia has started moving her fingers up and down over her mouth while making noise, which comes out like “B-B-B-B-B-B-B,” (someday I swear I will get it on video) and L thinks that is just FASCINATING.  He loves watching her do this, and can’t seem to figure it out himself, even though he is older by a couple of months and crawling and signing and things.  Today, I’m told, he stuck his finger in Amelia’s mouth while trying to decipher the technique.  Not to be outdone, she stuck her finger in his mouth, too!

They both get irritated with the 5-month-old baby, M, who is crying a lot lately (my theory is growth spurt).  And evidently, Amelia and L fight sometimes too.  One teacher told me she watched them playing happily with different toys one day, sitting next to each other, when Amelia got mad that she couldn’t reach L’s toy (which was too high up on the wall for her) and started to cry.  L got mad about Amelia crying and started crying too, and they both scooted to where they were back to back, presumably crying because the other was “being mean.”

It’s so interesting to see how interactions of little, little people bears so much resemblance to the interactions of large people.