What a difference a month makes

Abigail has an activity mat that plays music and has little stuffed animals that are suspended over her head. I haven't put her on it in almost a month because she usually starts to cry within 10 minutes of laying on it. Then on Friday I decided to put her on it and see what she'd do. She loved it! She laid there for an hour until I had to move her so that we could go pick up Chad at school. It was such a different experience for her than it had been. Now she is much more aware of her environment. She was enjoying the music and I could see her get disappointed when I had to turn it off. Also, her eyes are able to focus in on the little animals and she enjoys it when I take them down and touch them to her hand. Also, the little elephant has ears that make a crinkle sound when you touch them. I put it near her hand so that when she hit it she would hear the crinkle sound. I think there were points at which she might have realized that it was her making the sound happen. It was really neat to play with her and see how much has changed for her in the last month.