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Riana is on par with other babies of her age as far as developmental milestones are concerned. She began rolling over at 4 months, started eating solid foods at 5 months, began sitting up without support at 6.5 months, started mastering her crawling skills at 7.5 months. Now at 9 months, she can stand up and has figured out how to climb stairs. She can only climb as many as 2 or 3 steps but it is a big achievement for her. She know how to pull herself up to a standing position using various kinds of support. Some of the more interesting supports that she uses is a 2 year old kid and a small dog at her daycare! She is now starting to feed herself simple finger foods such as baby cereal and toast.

So why do I think she is a child prodigy? Well, amongst all her skills are very good computer skills. Ashwin and I have let Riana type on our computers several times. She loves the keyboards. She has done some things that have amazed both of us. She has, not once but twice, inserted date and time stamp into Notepad. That cant be a fluke… She has managed to launch the help menu and find tool in Notepad. In Firefox, she has decreased the font size without using the mouse wheel, she has opened home page in existing window, opened a new tabbed window, opened a information box indicating the window size. In Picasa, she has zoomed into a picture and deleted a picture. What’s next?

Perhaps she is not a baby prodigy. She simply has our genes! I am yet to find out the shortcut to insert date and time in Notepad. I think I will do that after posting this article.

It is great to see her do so well but at the same time, she is terror. She is a little devil who likes to get into trouble. We’ve tried to baby proof the house but she is now using the drawer hardware as support to stand up. And oh, did I forget to mention that she is a drama queen. Why, of course! As I said earlier… She has my genes!

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Cheers.