Mini Alex update.
May. 23rd, 2006 10:09 amAlex is doing so many new things every day! I want to note some of them down so I don't forget them.
New words: baby, clothes, outside, nose, eye, toes, knee (only applied when viewed through ripped jeans, for some reason), light, kids, read, rocket, Pa (replaces "Daddy" to refer to her Papa), stars, blocks, bread, cake (mostly applied to rice cakes, also appears when playing pat-a-cake), clues (refers to the TV show "Blue's Clues," which she now asks for by name. I am a bad mother.), hello, that, mail.
New book she asks for by name: Fox in Socks. ("Socks Socks!")
Four new tricks:
(1) Holding my cell phone up to her ear and saying "'Lo!"
(2) Holding a tissue or napkin up to her face and making a blowing noise, as if blowing her nose.
(3) Playing along with "Two Little Monkeys" by tapping her head and shaking a lecturing finger at more-or-less the appropriate moments.
(4) Waving and saying "Bye!" for endings: finishing books, walking away from a cage at the zoo, leaving her toothbrush behind in the bathroom, having her star light turned off at night.
New words: baby, clothes, outside, nose, eye, toes, knee (only applied when viewed through ripped jeans, for some reason), light, kids, read, rocket, Pa (replaces "Daddy" to refer to her Papa), stars, blocks, bread, cake (mostly applied to rice cakes, also appears when playing pat-a-cake), clues (refers to the TV show "Blue's Clues," which she now asks for by name. I am a bad mother.), hello, that, mail.
New book she asks for by name: Fox in Socks. ("Socks Socks!")
Four new tricks:
(1) Holding my cell phone up to her ear and saying "'Lo!"
(2) Holding a tissue or napkin up to her face and making a blowing noise, as if blowing her nose.
(3) Playing along with "Two Little Monkeys" by tapping her head and shaking a lecturing finger at more-or-less the appropriate moments.
(4) Waving and saying "Bye!" for endings: finishing books, walking away from a cage at the zoo, leaving her toothbrush behind in the bathroom, having her star light turned off at night.
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Date: 2006-05-23 02:25 pm (UTC)Okay, this is just adorable.
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Date: 2006-05-23 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-23 02:45 pm (UTC)I started this, I think, because I have sometimes used "let's say goodbye to ___" as a way to help her manage transitions that might otherwise make her cry. But she has extended it way further than I ever imagined.
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Date: 2006-05-23 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-23 02:57 pm (UTC)