Freya has just started to, what can best be described as, mime my actions when I say “hello” and “goodbye.” ALthough she cannot verbally communicate, she opens and closes her mouth a few times, trying to copy my utterances. A fantastic advancement on the day before her 7th month.

As from last sunday Freybabe has developed a dislike of men or at least what they say. Good on her! 😉

Today (hm.. more like last wednesday now..) Freya and I went to the Stockholm University to do the second and last session at the linguistic institution. We, well Freya rather, have participated in a study about “the language-world of infants”spädbarnets språkvärld“.
In Freyas case, they have with eye-tracking tried to see how well infants can pick upp knowledge of a language.
I got a go at it myself and it was interesting to realise how hooked up I got about trying to figure out “the solution” since the language used was a made up one. The pressure on succeding the test got me a bit stressed and the expression ” learning old dogs to sit..” got explained quite clearly.Old habits or in this case a learned association is very difficult to break.
Freya though had no problem whatsoever.
It is going to be very interesting to see what results they come up with.

Yesterday was the first time for Freya in the baby-stroller. The cot part of the pram has now been put away into storage ; even if we have another child we would have to purchase a twin pram.

Freya appears to enjoy the view, and falls asleep just as easily.