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larryhammerSpeaking of TBD, they are four years + nine months old.
Achievements unlocked this past month: creating dot-by-numbers puzzles (first one was a circle), a just-shoulders-shrug for ‘dunno’. Also, when repeating something another kid says, altering wording to make it their own—most often to one-up, but sometimes just to be original.
Rather than single achievements, though, what’s most noticeable is how more extensive conversations are now possible. Also, deepening awareness of current emotional and social abilities, with specific goals of things to get better at. (Specifics omitted for privacy.)
The allowance experiment seems to be working. At the moment, it's hard to hoard money for more than three weeks, before spending much of it on a big/better thing. But even that much deferred gratification is big.
Media consistently consumed this past month includes Commander Toad books, Junior B. Jones audiobooks (current default car listening), a volume of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Voltron: Legendary Defender (the Netflix reboot, not the original), and Transformers: Rescue Bots. (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was abruptly dropped mid-season 6. There's signs interest is returning tho’.) I’d add Star Wars episode IV, but only the first half has been watched, up to the escape from the trash compactor.*
One speech thing: I’m currently called Daddy/Dad/Dada in roughly equal proportions (except when distressed, in which case only Daddy). Another: thanks to a return to reading Frog on a Log?, we've been doing a lot of rhyming games of the form "What do Xes sit on?" "Xes sit on Ys," where the words rhyme, tho' odds are the Y is made up. "Monkeys sit on punkeys!" Wordplay in action!
Which leads into talking, talking:
“What is a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and more hundreds?”
“How many hundreds? I can’t add them up otherwise.”
“A hundred hundreds.”
(invention of multiplication)
“A long time ago my new toys ... (various fumbling) in a long time my new toys will be older.”
“I wonder if lie was a true word.”
“Don’t open the blanket.”
(after being introduced to a spaghetti squash with two spots like eyes, masks face with it)
“Oy, I’m a squash but I turn into spaghetti.”
“Sorry, $cat, I can’t talk to you. I’m watching Star Wars.”
“I’m just going to kill you forever. And when you come alive again I’m going to kill you forever again.”
Me: “Ladies and gentlemen, the Great $RealName will now — do nothing.”
TBD: *cracks up*
(the Great $RealName is a circus acrobat who jumps on our bed while an MC calls out their moves)
“I wish I would know how much the earth lived.”
So do most of us, kid.
* Possibly because the title doesn't have a colon.
---L.
Subject quote from this freestyle, Black Thought.
Achievements unlocked this past month: creating dot-by-numbers puzzles (first one was a circle), a just-shoulders-shrug for ‘dunno’. Also, when repeating something another kid says, altering wording to make it their own—most often to one-up, but sometimes just to be original.
Rather than single achievements, though, what’s most noticeable is how more extensive conversations are now possible. Also, deepening awareness of current emotional and social abilities, with specific goals of things to get better at. (Specifics omitted for privacy.)
The allowance experiment seems to be working. At the moment, it's hard to hoard money for more than three weeks, before spending much of it on a big/better thing. But even that much deferred gratification is big.
Media consistently consumed this past month includes Commander Toad books, Junior B. Jones audiobooks (current default car listening), a volume of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Voltron: Legendary Defender (the Netflix reboot, not the original), and Transformers: Rescue Bots. (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was abruptly dropped mid-season 6. There's signs interest is returning tho’.) I’d add Star Wars episode IV, but only the first half has been watched, up to the escape from the trash compactor.*
One speech thing: I’m currently called Daddy/Dad/Dada in roughly equal proportions (except when distressed, in which case only Daddy). Another: thanks to a return to reading Frog on a Log?, we've been doing a lot of rhyming games of the form "What do Xes sit on?" "Xes sit on Ys," where the words rhyme, tho' odds are the Y is made up. "Monkeys sit on punkeys!" Wordplay in action!
Which leads into talking, talking:
“What is a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and a hundred and more hundreds?”
“How many hundreds? I can’t add them up otherwise.”
“A hundred hundreds.”
(invention of multiplication)
“A long time ago my new toys ... (various fumbling) in a long time my new toys will be older.”
“I wonder if lie was a true word.”
“Don’t open the blanket.”
(after being introduced to a spaghetti squash with two spots like eyes, masks face with it)
“Oy, I’m a squash but I turn into spaghetti.”
“Sorry, $cat, I can’t talk to you. I’m watching Star Wars.”
“I’m just going to kill you forever. And when you come alive again I’m going to kill you forever again.”
Me: “Ladies and gentlemen, the Great $RealName will now — do nothing.”
TBD: *cracks up*
(the Great $RealName is a circus acrobat who jumps on our bed while an MC calls out their moves)
“I wish I would know how much the earth lived.”
So do most of us, kid.
* Possibly because the title doesn't have a colon.
---L.
Subject quote from this freestyle, Black Thought.
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Date: 1 February 2018 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 February 2018 07:16 pm (UTC)Yes. Almost 5. We have already been getting (contradictory) requests about what sort of birthday party to throw.
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Date: 2 February 2018 12:37 am (UTC)That is very deep.
“I’m just going to kill you forever. And when you come alive again I’m going to kill you forever again.”
The kid has already mastered soap opera structure!
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Date: 2 February 2018 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 February 2018 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 February 2018 02:55 pm (UTC)