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At two years and five months, TBD is now ZOOMING along on the balance bike, as in faster than my fast walking pace -- I have to book it to keep up. With a small downhill slope, we can routinely glide, with feet up, for 10m and sometimes more than 15m. We may even be ready to start on a bike with pedals soon.
Achievements unlocked in the past month include reciting the numbers to 10 (though for the past two weeks, 5 and 6 routinely get skipped -- and counting above 4 objects remains iffy), "What's that?", reciting "Twinkle, Twinkle" alone, putting on a new band aid unsupervised (including going into the bathroom, climbing onto the toilet to reach the box, getting out a band aid, putting box back, unwrapping it, putting it on knee, and throwing wrapper away -- about two minutes of work while we waited in the living room, not knowing what was going on), and "Why?" (first use: "Why do people ride boats?").
At the end of our first bedtime reading of Corduroy with a small stuffie of the protagonist in hand, TBD hugged the bear just like Lisa did in the book. A few minutes later, Corduroy was abandoned for a larger teddy bear. (Lately, the role of teddy bear has frequently been played by a pink stuffed stegosaurus, usually called Dino but called Teddy Dino for these purposes.)
I haven't recorded much in the way of talking, talking, in part because there's been so many more questions, but one general trend has been greater ability to describe emotions and internal states ("Tired!"). And along with that, more emoting. But, two bits:
While debating in the store whether to buy a cute dress with owls:
Me: "I want to get it."
TBD: "NO Daddy! Mine!"
While watching Maru the cat:
"Kitty hiding!" *giggle* *squeal* "Kitty HIDING!"
<repeat throughout the videos with boxes>
And the night after watching the moon sliding into full eclipse, we had to go outside to watch it rise, to reassure TBD that it had come back out of hiding.
Good times, good times.
---L.
Subject quote from "In God's Country," U2.
Achievements unlocked in the past month include reciting the numbers to 10 (though for the past two weeks, 5 and 6 routinely get skipped -- and counting above 4 objects remains iffy), "What's that?", reciting "Twinkle, Twinkle" alone, putting on a new band aid unsupervised (including going into the bathroom, climbing onto the toilet to reach the box, getting out a band aid, putting box back, unwrapping it, putting it on knee, and throwing wrapper away -- about two minutes of work while we waited in the living room, not knowing what was going on), and "Why?" (first use: "Why do people ride boats?").
At the end of our first bedtime reading of Corduroy with a small stuffie of the protagonist in hand, TBD hugged the bear just like Lisa did in the book. A few minutes later, Corduroy was abandoned for a larger teddy bear. (Lately, the role of teddy bear has frequently been played by a pink stuffed stegosaurus, usually called Dino but called Teddy Dino for these purposes.)
I haven't recorded much in the way of talking, talking, in part because there's been so many more questions, but one general trend has been greater ability to describe emotions and internal states ("Tired!"). And along with that, more emoting. But, two bits:
While debating in the store whether to buy a cute dress with owls:
Me: "I want to get it."
TBD: "NO Daddy! Mine!"
While watching Maru the cat:
"Kitty hiding!" *giggle* *squeal* "Kitty HIDING!"
<repeat throughout the videos with boxes>
And the night after watching the moon sliding into full eclipse, we had to go outside to watch it rise, to reassure TBD that it had come back out of hiding.
Good times, good times.
---L.
Subject quote from "In God's Country," U2.