On Tuesday, Alice fed herself for the first time that I’ve seen. I had fed her myself earlier, but left a half filled cup of yogurt and a baby spoon on the table with the Alice Grasping Radius. She pulled it off and started chowing down. She ended getting a reasonable amount of the yogurt in Alice instead of leaving it external. I have a video of it but I took it in the wrong orientation and it’s been a long, hard and so far unsuccessful struggle to get it fixed. (Here it is, small but viewable)
Alice also gave us a good scare today. Around noon I got a call from daycare that her hands were very cold and starting to turn purple. I said I’d pop over and take a look. I got there within 15 minutes. During that time Alice had apparently become cold and purple-tinged all over with “lips as blue as her denim pants” and then recovered, so by the time I saw her all she had was some not warm hands with a bit of darkening. Alice was not the least bit bothered by any of this, however, continuing to play normally the whole time.
We called the hospital and we’ll take her in next week for a look, or immediately if it happens again. The nurse I spoke to said she’d seen that kind of thing before, although she didn’t indicate what happened to those children. I guess we’ll find out.