« Sophie’s First Christmas | Main | The New Year So Far »
Watching Sophie Learn
By miranda | January 1, 2009
Based on data from several eye-witness acounts we can confidently say that Sophie first crawled on Christmas Day. Her movements were halting and few, but it was a crawl. Since then she’s figured out a few more tricks to locomote, such as draging herself forward one push at a time in order to reach a toy or a cat tail (though the cats are on to her, they are learning to sleep in shifts… well, in groups anyways. Safety in numbers). This morning, though, I witnessed something truly remarkable. I watched as Sophie literaly forged new neural networks in her brain as she made the connections telling her which limbs must move in concert for true locomotion to take place. She was up on hands and knees and then she’d lift her right knee, pause, and then slap her left hand a couple of times. Then she’d switch and lift the left knee, pause, and slap her right hand. As I watched she kept this up until the pauses were shorter and she started making some forward progress at the same time. Wow, it’s cool.
The Sophie experiment has entered the next phase. Good thing we got rid of the ugly old carpet cause there’ll be no confining her to a blanket on the floor anymore.
Topics: Learning, Sophie | 2 Comments »
January 1st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Man! Nathan can get his knees under him now, but then he just stays on hands and knees and rocks back and forth. He hasn’t gotten the forward momentum going yet. Soon, he’ll get it, and then we’ll be sunk for sure!
January 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
At least you guys have experience baby-proofing from when Jared was small. Though I guess there’s always some re-learning to be done.