
Parent: She's a total ham. We started playing peek-a-boo (another post, for sure), and she didn't understand at first how I could see her when she hid in her blue translucent play house... but then she became fascinated with how the world looked all blue.
Development: Baby visual accuity is much better than most people think. Urban myths about not babies not seeing in color or seeing everything out of focus are totally bogus. Babies see in vivid color and the only truth is new born infants are extremely near-sighted, having maximal accuity at about 12 inches (which just happens to be the distance from the breast to mom's face). But beyond accuity, a lot of what kids in the mid-teen months are doing are experimenting with their world and new sensations. So being able to see the whole world with a blue tint, must have been a great experience. She's also been experimenting with spinning and getting dizzy (but that's another post).
Next week we'll focus on the terrible twos, nutrition, and stealth vegetables!
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