Cognitive milestone update

[mmcirvin]

At about a week shy of six months, Jorie has become much more adept at sitting up unsupported; she can do it for minutes at a time. It's important to keep spotting her, though, since she tends to tumble over unexpectedly and doesn't like it at all.

In just the past couple of days, she's also become interested in the cats. I'm not sure if she perceives them as intentional agents, but they're at least objects of interest for staring at and touching. Since the latter activity involves some risk, I've tried to make sure she is gentle about it and mostly touches Nestor, who is the most docile to humans, if not to other cats or to carpeting. She'd previously shown some interest in Lindsey's dog Mika when she was here, but Mika is much more energetic and Jorie found her funny.

Meanwhile, she's just on the edge of finding a game of peekaboo entertaining. She knows there's something peculiar going on there, but I think it's near the current limit of her intellectual capacity.

Comments

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

I love the label "intentional agents" - from what discipline did you get it? Psychology? What a cool tool for explaining your daughter's point of view, too.

Crazy(but always wanting to know more... hmm, perhaps the origin of her craziness, then?)Soph

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Philosophy, probably.

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

I read that as "international agents." So she hasn't noticed their little trenchcoats and the fact that they're always meowing into their lapels.