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TBD is four years + seven months old.
Achievements unlocked this last month: climbing onto the car hood (gee...), fastening bike helmet, tying a shirt around waist by the sleeves, turning sleeves right side out, dice, climbing chain-link fences. In addition, TBD can fold paper in half with reasonable accuracy, on both the orthogonal and diagonal, and fold a diagonal flap to meet a crease -- and now routinely wants to do by themselves the first few folds of every paper airplane.* Also, more assisting with cooking, including stirring pots and the less-sizzling stir-fries.**
Backing up a bit, Halloween fun was indeed had -- resulting in a full pumpkin bucket that would probably take a year to empty if we continued allowing candy only as a dessert after eating "enough" dinner (not because there's over 300 pieces but because other desserts could be subbed in). We've been experimenting, though, with allowing a single piece of candy during afternoon snack by way of limiting evening sugar.
Recurring media consumption includes Octonauts (all episodes have been watched at least twice), My Little Pony, DC Super Hero Girls (the web shorts), Busytown Mysteries/Hurray for Huckle (also in repeats), and Maru the cat (best source for continuous gigglefits in a while). TBD was entranced by the first episode of Sailor Moon Crystal (seen in a con video room), but we haven't yet found a better source than Amazon-for-fee so haven't followed up with more.
I haven't mentioned enunciation for a while, because there's been few month-by-month changes*** -- just gradual improvement, to the point that I only sometimes need to echo back to confirm I heard correctly, usually when TBD's tired or pouting or chewing food. Ye random average stranger generally can understand TBD, as long as they speak loud enough (not a given for people not yet warmed up to). Sometimes still, because of knowledge or logic gaps, statements come out tangled and I echo my guess at intended meaning, with "Is that what you meant?" -- but that's a different kind of speaking issue.
Didn't get down as many examples of talking, talking this month:
“Daddy knows everything. He even knows about poop.”
“What language are we talking in now?”
“I like the helper candle. Because it helps.”
(the shamash candle used to light the rest of the hanukkah menorah)
“And on his farm he had an egg, e i e i o
With a crack-crack here and a crack-crack there”
(in the next verse, Old McDonald had a matzo ball soup that went splash-splash)
“I spy with my little eye something that begins with K.”
(answer turned out to be Henry)
Yeah, we're still working on spelling on a very basic level ...
* I am amused, to put it mildly, that when playing pirate the treasure is a packet of origami paper.
** Access to real stove, even limited by grown-up supervision, means the toy kitchen is hardly ever touched now.
*** Yet another sign that month is no longer a very significant digit.
---L.
Subject quote from "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee," N. Scott Momaday.
Achievements unlocked this last month: climbing onto the car hood (gee...), fastening bike helmet, tying a shirt around waist by the sleeves, turning sleeves right side out, dice, climbing chain-link fences. In addition, TBD can fold paper in half with reasonable accuracy, on both the orthogonal and diagonal, and fold a diagonal flap to meet a crease -- and now routinely wants to do by themselves the first few folds of every paper airplane.* Also, more assisting with cooking, including stirring pots and the less-sizzling stir-fries.**
Backing up a bit, Halloween fun was indeed had -- resulting in a full pumpkin bucket that would probably take a year to empty if we continued allowing candy only as a dessert after eating "enough" dinner (not because there's over 300 pieces but because other desserts could be subbed in). We've been experimenting, though, with allowing a single piece of candy during afternoon snack by way of limiting evening sugar.
Recurring media consumption includes Octonauts (all episodes have been watched at least twice), My Little Pony, DC Super Hero Girls (the web shorts), Busytown Mysteries/Hurray for Huckle (also in repeats), and Maru the cat (best source for continuous gigglefits in a while). TBD was entranced by the first episode of Sailor Moon Crystal (seen in a con video room), but we haven't yet found a better source than Amazon-for-fee so haven't followed up with more.
I haven't mentioned enunciation for a while, because there's been few month-by-month changes*** -- just gradual improvement, to the point that I only sometimes need to echo back to confirm I heard correctly, usually when TBD's tired or pouting or chewing food. Ye random average stranger generally can understand TBD, as long as they speak loud enough (not a given for people not yet warmed up to). Sometimes still, because of knowledge or logic gaps, statements come out tangled and I echo my guess at intended meaning, with "Is that what you meant?" -- but that's a different kind of speaking issue.
Didn't get down as many examples of talking, talking this month:
“Daddy knows everything. He even knows about poop.”
“What language are we talking in now?”
“I like the helper candle. Because it helps.”
(the shamash candle used to light the rest of the hanukkah menorah)
“And on his farm he had an egg, e i e i o
With a crack-crack here and a crack-crack there”
(in the next verse, Old McDonald had a matzo ball soup that went splash-splash)
“I spy with my little eye something that begins with K.”
(answer turned out to be Henry)
Yeah, we're still working on spelling on a very basic level ...
* I am amused, to put it mildly, that when playing pirate the treasure is a packet of origami paper.
** Access to real stove, even limited by grown-up supervision, means the toy kitchen is hardly ever touched now.
*** Yet another sign that month is no longer a very significant digit.
---L.
Subject quote from "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee," N. Scott Momaday.