Both my kids have a mind of their own. I've detailed this many times with Ally, but Anya is starting to show it too. If she wants to "talk" to you and you're not paying her enough attention. She yells at you - then smiles and coos. She coos and talks a lot. I don't really remember that much about when Ally was this age except that she was fun. And that she smiled constantly. Anya is more - uh... what's the word I'm looking for? - internal? When you're not interacting with her, she has a very serious look on her face. Like she's just trying to figure everything out. When you laugh and smile at her, she almost instantly smiles and gigles right back, but it doesn't stay long. She reacts and then goes back to thinking. Or talking at you.
And a lot of the time, if you lay her on her back, she's over on her belly before you even realize it. She started by rolling from belly to back, but still isn't that good at it. As soon as she figured out how to go the other way, she quit trying as hard. She perfers her belly. Unless there is someone sitting next to her staring down and laughing with her. Mostly she only goes from belly to back if she's in her crib waking up.
She's going to be a lot like Ally, I can tell, but it's certain that she's her own person too. I love raising kids sometimes. It's so rewarding to see them become their own people. And it starts happening so early. So fun.