Emily has become fully self-aware in the last two weeks. She now refers to herself as “me” instead of “Emily” and says “you”/”your” instead of “daddy”.
Perhaps related to this, she’s also become a bit strange. She’s been doing things that get her in trouble at home and has something like an attachment issue but it’s not consistent. My theory is that her new-found awareness has made her feel alone and she’s trying to hold onto what her memories tell her is normal. The worst reaction we’ve had is at swimming. I’ve already mentioned the problems we had. This week I went in the pool and while that helped to calm her down, she was still clearly agitated. I think she didn’t trust that I wouldn’t leave her in there by herself.
We got Emily a new pair of shoes. They’re like sandals but with velcro and an enclosed heel. They gave her blisters so she’s now wearing Wiggles band-aids on her ankles. We saw a lady on the bus today that also had band-aids on her ankles and Emily was fascinated by them.
Isaac is taking his first steps and should be walking any day now.
Wow … we’re still working on getting Aidan to say his own name!
By the way, our server fried. See here:
http://sbw.livejournal.com/59457.html