She started playing the other day. Like really playing. Mostly with her doll - covering her with a blanket, shushing her, singing to her, changing her diaper, giving her milk. And for more than 38 seconds. Maybe a few minutes even. Now she pretends to refill the baby bottle at the kitchen sink (though she's far from reaching). Also in the bathtub. She lines her pigs and ducks up, counting them, and then makes them each jump into the water. Today feels like the first day in a long while where I could actually just observe her playing, rather than her needing my joint attention and interaction every other minute. It's like she rediscovered some toys recently, and is learning to use her imagination. I hope she has an active one, so we can foster some of that creativity. She's also been talking a bit to her toys. And she still likes to pretend everything's a phone and said "hi!" I'm just hopeful that a few more minutes of independent each day is around the corner. Either that or I'm gonna have to get knocked up with #2 just to give her someone else to play with.
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