We brought Molli up to Farum today to give her a shove toward earning her keep at GSB Bird Treats. But before we get to Molli’s industrial experience, let me give a quick status report.
She’s lifting her head all the time now. When Trine or I carry her she won’t even lay her head against our chests unless she’s on the brink of sleep. Otherwise she’s got her head straight up, looking around, absolutely fascinated by everything in the world around her. When on her stomach she still doesn’t understand how much easier it would be to lift her head and upper body if only she’d use her hands, but she manages to get the whole top half of her body raised without any use of her hands or arms at all. It’s impressive even if it’s not very bright.
She’s also getting better and better at grabbing. With toys and things it seems mostly a matter of luck whether or not she can get a grip on them—but when she does, she inevitably drags it toward her face and usually ends up terrifying herself by schlepping it on top of her own head. With blankets, however, she definitely seems to have a better sense of control: she likes to pull them up over her head, except when she doesn’t feel like having them over head, in which case she likes to push them down off of her. On the advice of books and other parents we’ve designated one little cloth as her particular comfort thing, and it now travels alongside the pacifier wherever Molli goes. She’s become very attached to it. She doesn’t necessarily freak out if she doesn’t have it (yet), but it definitely entertains her when she’s got it. This is the object over which she appears to exert the most control.
Anyway, we went up to work at Stormax/GSB this morning and brought Molli along. Because the machinery was so loud, we stuffed a little cotton in her ears.
She was cozy enough in the lift for a while, but eventually she got cantankerous and we had to set her up in a more playful environment. Where do you find a playful environment in a machine factory? You don’t. So you bring a play environment with you and, like everything else, you slap it on a pallet. Here she is before we used the forklift to put her up on one of the shelves:
In the end we didn’t get much work out of her, but she didn’t cause any problems, either.
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Lastly, we’ve confirmed our travel plans. We’ll be in the states from February 18 to 28 this winter—Connecticut and Greater Boston only, this time… although Molli ought to at least get a glimpse of New York as we head up to Deep River from Newark airport.
