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larryhammerTBD is three years and eight months old.
Achievements unlocked: dressing self, jacket zippers, jigsaw puzzles, hopping on one foot, fear of dying (to the point of sometimes not wanting to grow up), body modesty with those not authorized to help in the potty, and sitting through a theater movie not previously seen (The Eagle Huntress, which was fine except for one scene and previews too scary to stay in the theater).
Holiday visit to grandparents went quite well -- more social, more interactive, and generally more stamina for road trips. Grandpa is adored. The present-a-night observance of Hanukkah is being thoroughly enjoyed, as was the big gallumph of Christmas presents. (I should explain, I think, that while Janni and TBD are Jewish, I and my parents are not, so both traditions are observed. We also observe Chinese New Year.)
Lots of developmental things happening -- including the above-mentioned mastery of jigsaw puzzles, which is current favorite play activity, as well as inventing more songs than ever -- but I noted very few of them down. Instead, this post is mostly talking, talking:
(pulls off shirt)
TBD: "I did it $realname style."
Janni: "You found your own way to do it?"
"Say that was pretty awesome."
"That was pretty awesome."
TBD: "Mommy, Daddy, I'm hungry."
"Come to the table to eat."
"I'm not that hungry."
TBD: "Who's that?" (pointing at a photo of Trump)
Me: "That's the man who's going to be president."
TBD: "What's his name?"
Me: "His name is Donald Trump."
TBD: "Why not Hillary Clinton?"
Janni: "Because more people ... not more people, but more people in the right places wanted Trump."
TBD: "We're in the right place?"
Me: "It's complicated"
Janni: "Basically more people wanted him."
TBD: "We didn't."
Janni: "No, because he's mean to people. Do you know what a bully is?"
TBD: (shakes head)
Janni: "Well ... because the president is mean, we have to work harder to not be mean. To be kind. That means if someone is sad, ask if they're okay. If someone is playing alone, ask if they want to play with you."
(A few minutes later, TBD asks that I put a safety pin on their shirt, like I've been doing)
(TBD goes to Janni, now in another room)
TBD: "Why you not wearing one?"
Janni: "I can wear one."
(TBD leaves and comes back with another safety pin, hands it to Janni)
TBD: "Don't be mean."
"Do you want juice or water?"
"I want books."
(is this our kid or what?)
(singing) "Rats and bays, apples and grays, all the pretty little horses, and cows"
"I am a human so I dress myself."
"Mommy, I want a hippopotamus."
"You want a hippopotamus? A real one?"
"No."
"You want a play hippopotamus as a present?"
"For a surprise."
"Is it still a surprise if you know what it is?"
"It's a surprise because it is hidden."
(still working through the concepts of surprises and secrets)
(Janni draws on a restaurant placemat)
TBD: "Only kids can draw. Not grownups."
"Grownups draw."
"No they don't."
"What about $friend? He draws picture books."
"Only $friend can."
"Some spiders eat spiders?"
(putting together that spiders a) eat bugs and b) are bugs) (FWIW, it turns out there's a family of spiders that prey on other spiders)
"Why no dinosaurs in the world?"
(that they died long ago was a shocking recent discovery)
"There's so many stars. It's so awesome."
---L.
Subject quote from "Just So," Agnes Obel.
Achievements unlocked: dressing self, jacket zippers, jigsaw puzzles, hopping on one foot, fear of dying (to the point of sometimes not wanting to grow up), body modesty with those not authorized to help in the potty, and sitting through a theater movie not previously seen (The Eagle Huntress, which was fine except for one scene and previews too scary to stay in the theater).
Holiday visit to grandparents went quite well -- more social, more interactive, and generally more stamina for road trips. Grandpa is adored. The present-a-night observance of Hanukkah is being thoroughly enjoyed, as was the big gallumph of Christmas presents. (I should explain, I think, that while Janni and TBD are Jewish, I and my parents are not, so both traditions are observed. We also observe Chinese New Year.)
Lots of developmental things happening -- including the above-mentioned mastery of jigsaw puzzles, which is current favorite play activity, as well as inventing more songs than ever -- but I noted very few of them down. Instead, this post is mostly talking, talking:
(pulls off shirt)
TBD: "I did it $realname style."
Janni: "You found your own way to do it?"
"Say that was pretty awesome."
"That was pretty awesome."
TBD: "Mommy, Daddy, I'm hungry."
"Come to the table to eat."
"I'm not that hungry."
TBD: "Who's that?" (pointing at a photo of Trump)
Me: "That's the man who's going to be president."
TBD: "What's his name?"
Me: "His name is Donald Trump."
TBD: "Why not Hillary Clinton?"
Janni: "Because more people ... not more people, but more people in the right places wanted Trump."
TBD: "We're in the right place?"
Me: "It's complicated"
Janni: "Basically more people wanted him."
TBD: "We didn't."
Janni: "No, because he's mean to people. Do you know what a bully is?"
TBD: (shakes head)
Janni: "Well ... because the president is mean, we have to work harder to not be mean. To be kind. That means if someone is sad, ask if they're okay. If someone is playing alone, ask if they want to play with you."
(A few minutes later, TBD asks that I put a safety pin on their shirt, like I've been doing)
(TBD goes to Janni, now in another room)
TBD: "Why you not wearing one?"
Janni: "I can wear one."
(TBD leaves and comes back with another safety pin, hands it to Janni)
TBD: "Don't be mean."
"Do you want juice or water?"
"I want books."
(is this our kid or what?)
(singing) "Rats and bays, apples and grays, all the pretty little horses, and cows"
"I am a human so I dress myself."
"Mommy, I want a hippopotamus."
"You want a hippopotamus? A real one?"
"No."
"You want a play hippopotamus as a present?"
"For a surprise."
"Is it still a surprise if you know what it is?"
"It's a surprise because it is hidden."
(still working through the concepts of surprises and secrets)
(Janni draws on a restaurant placemat)
TBD: "Only kids can draw. Not grownups."
"Grownups draw."
"No they don't."
"What about $friend? He draws picture books."
"Only $friend can."
"Some spiders eat spiders?"
(putting together that spiders a) eat bugs and b) are bugs) (FWIW, it turns out there's a family of spiders that prey on other spiders)
"Why no dinosaurs in the world?"
(that they died long ago was a shocking recent discovery)
"There's so many stars. It's so awesome."
---L.
Subject quote from "Just So," Agnes Obel.
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Date: 30 December 2016 08:01 am (UTC)Quite right too. Why should should the cows be left out.
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