Amazing Lily Grace

Lately, we have felt like we're on a magic carpet ride.  For so very long (years), we've seen very few developmental advancements, but lately Lily is doing so well, and we are so elated.  We've had periods before where it would seem like Lily was moving forward and then we would lose it.  It's often been 3 steps forward and 2 steps back. Could this be a honeymoon? Yes. But I feel like we should just enjoy the honeymoon, live in the present, and not worry about the future now, it will be what it will be.  All that said, get on the magic carpet with us...Lily is not only getting better every day at feeding herself with her hands, she also took a spoon from me and started feeding herself with it!!! Big, happy, sparkly tears zoomed down my face!!! I couldn't believe it! She's also playing with toys (which she often avoids doing much of)...banging on her keyboard, shaking her pom pom, and pounding her drum.  Also, she has really become attached to a Woody the Cowboy doll. He has a string on the back that you pull to make him talk. As I was making her a drink, I heard him talk...I looked over and she was pulling the string over and over.  She'd never been taught how!! Later in the evening, we were watching TV together, and she started sitting on her knees and bouncing up and down like she wanted to pull herself up to her knees.  I have to pinch myself sometimes.  Is this real or some sort of wild dream? This is unheard of in our house...well that used to be true. Now, it's happening. She's going to amaze us all...do it all her own way...in her own time...that is the magic and uniqueness of Being Lily.