Dey and Dee's Updates

Gender Differences

Esther is now 9+ months old. She is crawling and walking around furniture, standing unassisted and has occasionally taken a step on her own. She has 4 teeth, weighs 19 1/2lbs, likes to eat everything we're eating but also likes to spit food and water from her mouth. She is beginning to use her voice and her signs more and is really enjoying books, especially about animals. She has followed her older brother's development (other than his exceptional weight gain and her hair lightening) almost exactly.

However, there are a few exceptions...

She LOVES babies. I mean goes crazy over them. There could 20 toys between her and her prey (the infant) and she will push them aside with a vengence to get to that baby. She also loves dolls. We didn't have any (only stuffed animals) because Simeon wasn't into them at all. Thankfully a client I was visiting was intrigued by Esther's enthusiasm over one of their dolls and gave it to her. She adores her 'baby'. Her affection consists of kissing, licking, talking to, dragging around by the hair, slapping on the face, dropping on the floor, banging the head numerous times on the floor...okay, so we're still working on the gentle thing! It sounds mean, but she really is showing love with all these things.

Another thing she has taken to doing lately is putting clothing (or dishtowels, or anything cotton for that matter) on her head to look 'pretty'. She's constantly trying to 'dress' herself.

At this age, Simeon's favortie game was for me to build a tower while he recklessly knocked it over. His motto for everything seemed to be 'Destroy and Conquer!"

I guess I wasn't expecting my kids to play so differently at such an early eage. So much for the gender nurturing thing. Mine seem to come by it naturally! Or maybe Esther just wears too much pink! :)

posted by Deanna Momtchilov @ 1:30 PM