A pointed observation

These days Lexi is doing a lot of pointing - extending her arm and pointing at something with an outstretched index finger. Neither Sarah nor I taught her how to point with her finger in this way, but perhaps she learned, either by explicit instruction or from simple observation, from Jane, our house help, who spends a lot of time with her outside, pointing with her own outstretched arm to birds, airplanes, the wind blowing through the trees, etc., helping a curious Lexi learn about the world.

So there is a lot of curiosity on Lexi's part, but much of the time, we can't figure out why her eye and finger are drawn to a particular thing, but we look in that direction too and acknowledge what she's pointing at. Sometimes it is something interesting and worth pointing at, and other times it's just the light fixture or the bookshelf or just pointing in some indeterminate direction. As always, it's another thing that is interesting to watch a baby do as she discovers and learns about the world.