And speaking of development

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Over the past couple of weeks, Jorie seems to have suddenly gained a lot of upper-body strength.

She's also been a bit more cranky and rebellious than usual, maybe in part because she's got her lower canine teeth coming in and causing her some pain, maybe partly because of incipient Terrible Twos or the developmental-spurt crankiness that kerri9494 mentioned a while back. But I think that a lot of what makes it noticeable isn't that her behavior has really changed so much as that she's now much stronger, and hasn't entirely adjusted to it. Actions that used to be harmless, like knocking objects against the floor, can now do damage or at the very least make a lot of noise. It's also much harder to keep her still for dressing or diaper-changing if she's actively trying to wriggle away.

When I read books to her, about half the time she now wrests the book away from me and starts "reading" bits of it at random, usually getting the gist of it right from memory. She's better about turning the pages without tearing them, but she now has a tendency to grab the pages in large chunks and crumple the edges in her fist. Again, I think it's that her grip is a lot stronger than it used to be.

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