When our small Apra is lying on the bed or in my arms, I often watch her every move. When she is awake, I talk to her and she follows me with her eyes and even replies with little noises. Sometimes she opens her mouth as though she also had something to say. When she is asleep, I watch how her expression changes from one to the other in no time at all. One moment I see her frowning, which then turns into a small whimper or even a cry. That is however quickly over and she is back to a plain face expression until she grins broadly and gives a beautiful smile. While watching her, I often wonder what is going on in her mind.
When she has her eyes open and looks around, her expressions are sometimes a clear reaction to what she sees, feels or hears. Of course the reason for her crying is either hunger, a wet diaper, some gas in her belly or a wish to be taken onto the arms. But what is the reason for her laugh? What is the reason for her frown? What does she think? I sometimes think I can see her taking in new information, learning, finding out new things about the world that she is in. I try to make her laugh and often succeed, each time happy that I could have been the reason.
When she sleeps, I wonder even more what is going on in her mind. What could be her dream? She has not seen much, so what is it that she dreams and smiles about? When she starts crying all of a sudden, it seems that in her dreams something bad must have happened – but what could that be? And in the next moment everything is fine again.
Our little one really does not have much information or input to laugh or cry about. Happiness, sadness, anger and all other emotions that she is going through are just natural. They are natural and they are right now developing, in the same way as her mind is developing and her body is developing – and her body is definitely developing! She already outgrew her first clothes!
And a proof that Apra is learning quickly is that Ammaji already trained her for peeing. Ammaji picks her up from time to time, opens her pants and diaper and hold her in a certain position. Then she makes the hissing sound of peeing and usually the water starts flowing right away.
We are having a wonderful time watching the development of our daughter and I am again and again amazed watching her. I will share my amazement from time to time with you in this way.
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I often wondered exactly the same. What can they “think”? There mind isn´t developed that they can really recognize faces or understand your talking. But what ever it is babys and childrens mind is so pure and this what I love about them.
Babies are such beautiful creations and they are so simply complicated in that in their innocence they are made happy with the simplist of things and what’s more they have only to smile a little and then we (the adults) try everything within our power to make them laugh, and when they cry we try everything to make them happy again…to be honest we can learn from their innocence…