the grabbing hands grab all they can

today it happened...
she grabbed stuff!
and not because her hand accidentally swiped something and her fingers accidentally attached to it
surprising her just as much as it did us.
no...
she looked at something,
reached out,
and made it her own.

what a proud moment.
who ever woulda thought that we would take such pleasure in watching another person open and close their hand.
we literally sat and watched her. we could have sat all day
with big goofy grins on our faces.
we watched her do it over and over again
confirming that it is fact a new skill and not a fluke.
and she grabbed numerous things.
a stuffed carrot, a stuffed dog,
lots and lots of mommy's hair.
she is remarkably strong.
painfully so.
schwarzenegger strong (mr universe ah-nuld and not the "governator").
and while she's learned grabbing it appears she has not learned the art of ungrabbing.

we'll have to work on that next.

she can now control a little bit more of her world
and thus a little bit more of ours.