With most skills, once Ingrid’s learned them, she doesn’t lose them. But rolling over seems to be different. She has been learning and re-learning it for the last 6 weeks. First she managed to do it in one direction (front to back, I think it was). Then she abandoned that and learned the other direction, and spent a good while doing that and “requesting” to be turned back all the time. Then she took a week’s break from both. Then she recovered both skills at the same time, and then forgot them again…

Right now she’s in a phase where she has forgotten both again, which leads to a fair amount of frustration, because I’ve only got a 50% chance of putting her down the way she wants, and of course sometimes she changes her mind after a very short while.

Very curious behaviour!

(Short blog post today because the title character in my current book is in mortal peril, and if he survives his current problem he will have at least 2 more sets of people after his blood, and I desperately need to know how he will get through this all!)