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TBD is exactly two-and-a-half years old.
Achievements unlocked: doorknobs, blowing a whistle, randomly singing songs aloud (sometimes with recognizable words and melody: "Row Row Row Your Boat" and "Twinkle, Twinkle," most often), moving the wings of an origami flapping bird without tearing or crumpling it, Richard Scarry appreciation, a love of mochi and miso, and a desire to be a "big kid" and change rooms at preschool.
Current favorite book: Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, which has a character hiding on every page -- "Where Goldbug go?" Books are, along with trucks, the most coveted objects in the house. When we visit a library or bookstore, we get reminded TBD gets "Two books!" -- and any more in the pile, we have to explain are ones we're getting. A distant third: the current favored stuffie, which is a pink stegosaurus.
More lispings are resolving: "oh-tay" is slowly turing into "okay" (OTOH, initial k- sound is still usually p-). "What's that?" is still favored over "Why?" -- and when asked of something already well-known, it's our cue to ask back so that knowledge can be shown off. I haven't been recording (read: remembering long enough to jot down) the better bits of conversation, though this morning, there was a grasping after past tense, correcting "I do that" to "I did that."
It's not clear how much of our explanations of Halloween are understood, especially the part about some people finding spiders scary (TBD has been known to thank spiders for eating flies), but we plan a short trick-or-treating costumed as a redonkulously cute ladybug. Next year, there will be more to build on.
---L.
Subject quote from "The Fall," Peter and The Wolf."
Achievements unlocked: doorknobs, blowing a whistle, randomly singing songs aloud (sometimes with recognizable words and melody: "Row Row Row Your Boat" and "Twinkle, Twinkle," most often), moving the wings of an origami flapping bird without tearing or crumpling it, Richard Scarry appreciation, a love of mochi and miso, and a desire to be a "big kid" and change rooms at preschool.
Current favorite book: Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, which has a character hiding on every page -- "Where Goldbug go?" Books are, along with trucks, the most coveted objects in the house. When we visit a library or bookstore, we get reminded TBD gets "Two books!" -- and any more in the pile, we have to explain are ones we're getting. A distant third: the current favored stuffie, which is a pink stegosaurus.
More lispings are resolving: "oh-tay" is slowly turing into "okay" (OTOH, initial k- sound is still usually p-). "What's that?" is still favored over "Why?" -- and when asked of something already well-known, it's our cue to ask back so that knowledge can be shown off. I haven't been recording (read: remembering long enough to jot down) the better bits of conversation, though this morning, there was a grasping after past tense, correcting "I do that" to "I did that."
It's not clear how much of our explanations of Halloween are understood, especially the part about some people finding spiders scary (TBD has been known to thank spiders for eating flies), but we plan a short trick-or-treating costumed as a redonkulously cute ladybug. Next year, there will be more to build on.
---L.
Subject quote from "The Fall," Peter and The Wolf."