If you woke up tomorrow able to perceive the world around you in a fourth dimension, you'd go nuts. Suddenly you'd be fascinated with the ordinary objects in your life that you previously took for granted. You would exhaust yourself and everyone around you.
That's what Lyla is experiencing now that she's a walker. The wall! The dog's tail! Air! Everything is new again, for she's seeing it from a perspective she never knew existed.
In other news, we're trying to curb Lyla's binky use. Auntie Lori suggested a binkies-at-bedtime policy, which happens to also be how they do things at Lyla's school. We've had general success with it at home; the only problems have arisen when Lyla sees a binky and realizes she doesn't get it.
When Lyla was a tiny baby, Julie or I could have simply removed the binky from her sight and she would have immediately forgotten that it ever existed. That's how newborns' brains work: in those days, rediscovery happens constantly. You can leave the room and return 12 seconds later and the newborn would think, "Who's that giant?"
Rediscovery is cool. I can't wait till this kid learns to read.
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We do the binky only while sleeping thing, too. Anja adapted pretty quickly when we just started leaving them in her crib, so she didn't see them anywhere else. (Oh, and a hidden one in the car and diaper bag for emergencies.) Another trick when you want to get rid of them entirely is to cut off the end of them. Odd, but supposedly really works. They try it and then get rid of them themselves. We've let her keep hers while sleeping since it helps keep her sleeping while teething. So once these molars come in, we may be done with them.
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