Mini Alex update.

[rivka]

Alex 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.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

We were also a bit troubled that the toddler was walking and running on the docks without a lifejacket, because the water is quite cold and because in my partner's experience it's better to start early with the ritual and expectation that docks mean lifejackets.

That would trouble me too. Even if the parent is holding the toddler's hand, they're just so damn fast at that age.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

They weren't always holding onto the toddler, and when they were it was mostly onto zir hooded sweatshirt which doesn't look like as secure a grip as, say, the back of overalls.

Another way that I'm a real parent: now I guess I've become one of those Parents of Older Kids who can act disapproving because We Didn't Do It That Way!