She has Hands!!

Well, we've known this for a long time now, but Olivia's just figuring it out, which is fascinating to watch. Here she's staring at that right hand of hers, a little bit cross-eyed since it's pretty close. What you can't see is what she does next- she starts looking up along her arm to find out what that funny hand thing is attatched to!

Besides noticing that they exist, she's also started to see what they're good for; this morning, I watched, transfixed, as she looked at a dangling toy, and then swiped and hit it with her left hand. Sure, she's swiped aimlessly around and randomly hit toys before, but this was clearly deliberate. And then she did it again. And again. And her right hand stayed motionless, she was clearly concentrating on that left hand. I tried hanging the toy to her right side to see if she wanted to try hitting it with her right hand, and she wasn't having any of it. Maybe she's left-handed- something she'd share with both Grandmothers...