Flipper

Not the whale but our little Sera. Hey I'm not referring to her size either. In fact, her weight has kind of hit a plateau for the past few months, at 11.7kg. Ok, back to my flipper reference. You see, Sera has kind of developed a strange obsession of flipping the pages of books. Not a page by a time, but she'd use her thumb or both thumbs to fan through the pages of a book, a magazine ... anything she can get her hands on (you'll get the picture from the photos). We noticed this a while back already but just dismissed this as one of those random discoveries she'd made on her own. But, it got a little strange when she'd wake up (in the morning or afternoon), see a book and start her 'thumb-page-fanning' ritual. And when she's at it, it's quite impossible to get her attention away from it. She'd sit or stand in a very focused manner, watching the pages flip.

Needless to say, many of our books are in a sorry state, with fanned-out pages and covers!

After dinner, sitting with Johan, flipping away


Before breakfast, still in her pyjamas, flipping away

After breakfast, flipping away

After school and just a few minutes awake from her nap, flipping away