I love watching all the different stages that Sophia has been going through. I have been doing a lot of reading about what to expect during the toddler years, and some of the books give examples of how a baby may react to something that we. In one of the books I was reading (I forget that name of the book) it said that around the 7 month mark kids tend to get upset when you take an object away from them. I think that’s when they begin to recognize that just because they don’t see it it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. When Sophie was 7 months old she generally did not care if I took things away from her, she would just move on to the next interesting thing around her. Well let me tell you, it’s a whole new ball game now. Dare I take anything away from her that she wants and the screaming and water works come straight out. Like the other day I was sitting on the floor next to her eating some blueberries, she was playing with blocks and the remote control. All of a sudden she spotted the bowl of blueberries and she just had to have it. She scooted on her little bottom to the bowl and started playing with the berries. It was very cute how she investigated a berry, then she threw it our of the bowl, then she put it back in. After she got bored of picking single berries out she threw a bunch of them out onto the carpet and began mushing the rest of them in the bowl. That’s when I took it away because otherwise she would put a bunch of stains on her clothes and on the carpet. Oh man, was she ever angry she it berries were taken away from her. I don’t think she stopped whining until she went down for a nap an hour later. Next time I will know to take them away before she gets her little grabby hands on them.

Here are some pictures of her blueberry party.

Still fairly clean, being nice...

cleaning up……

getting messier….

smushing the berries….

baaaaaa, Mine, give them back!!!!!