Peek-a-boo video

Today Zoe (and Genevieve too) wanted me to post this piece of video of Zoe and I playing her version of peek-a-boo. She started doing this a month or so ago. Her first attempts were using a blanket in her high chair. We have video of this too, but the quality is really poor and it's hard to see. Check it out at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-546432121159693397 if you are interested (which I know you are - it is super cute even if it is a bit dark). As you can see she kind of does the whole peek-a-boo thing backwards- generally laughing and smiling when covered/not seeing and her usual neutral face/downturned mouth when she looks at you. What a weird baby.

And this is exciting why you ask? Some of you out there will know, having seem it in your kids but we love seeing Zoe do this because it reflects her increasing ability to play, interact with the world around her and indicate her enjoyment in things. This ability has really taken off in the last couple of months- now Zoe laughs at things and plays with toys and us and shows us both her pleasure and (like this morning when the yummy cereal/strawberry/bean mix I was feeding her suddenly turned to poison!) her displeasure. There's a whole cognitive/developmental piece to it too- object permenence, knowing an object still exists when out of sight blah, blah, blah, but that doesn't sound nearly as much fun as peek-a-boo.

There are a billion other cute clips we could post, but we will try and hold ourselves back (a little, at least). Zoe specifically requested this one though (through mommy) so there you go- how could I refuse?

Sorry for the abrupt ending on the clip- I'm still not happy with any of the video editing software we have on our computer. The music playing in the backgorund, by the way, is a Vancouver band I really like called The Town Pants. The songs are Dark Annie and Plastered in Paris. Just so you know.