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larryhammerTBD turns six years old at the end of the month, and given how long it’s been since my last development report, it’s time to officially declare these an irregular feature. Achievements and notes have grown enough in complexity they are hard to jot down, just as Talking, Talking is more whole conversations instead of quick exchanges.
To mark this transition, I’m changing their nom de internet to Eaglet.
(I will continue to use gender-neutral pronouns, and ask that those who know their real-life gender identity do the same.)
But to report what I have jotted down:
Achievements unlocked these past handful of months: consistent single-digit subtraction, word find puzzles, holding playing cards in hands, dominoes, slicing bread, reading early readers, carrying cats.
Achievements leveled up: basic paper airplanes, grooming own hair, reading phonetic-spelling words, social assurance, awesomeness, mimetic drawing, the losing of milk-teeth, naming cats, soccer.
That last is the easiest to expand on: we marked growing from baby!jock into jock-in-training by joining a U6 soccer club. The joy on Eaglet’s face at the end of first practice proved the decision. We’re already on break for the summer (we get hot early, here in the desert) but summer day camps will be sports camps.
Current games include Uno, Crazy Eights, Go Fish (sometimes played in Chinese), Sorry!, Race for the Treasure, Outfoxed, Scrabble Junior, dominos, and kicking around a soccer ball. Recent media consumed include Wild Kratts, various Power Rangers series, Octonauts, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Captain Underpants (tra-la-LA!). Current books are all over the map, but include a special concern for medieval knights and castles, racing cars, and eagles. When being read to, they almost have enough attention span to get through an early chapter book without an illustration every page.
And in the end, I did capture a couple talking, talking bon mots:
(singing)
“Uh oh, Power Rangers!
Didn’t I tell you never stop?”
“I like itchy spots because you can scratch them as much as you like.”
“John Philip Sousa ... I like his music because they’re like marches. It sounds like Star Wars.”
(on a road trip, parents are jamming out to My Little Pony’s “Time To Be Awesome”)
(slightly whiny) “When can we hear John Philip Sousa?”
“I have a crush on muffins.”
“Why does [the Statue of] Liberty have a torch in one hand and a tablet in the other?”
Good question, Eaglet -- it does look like one, doesn’t it.
---L.
Subject quote from On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats.
To mark this transition, I’m changing their nom de internet to Eaglet.
(I will continue to use gender-neutral pronouns, and ask that those who know their real-life gender identity do the same.)
But to report what I have jotted down:
Achievements unlocked these past handful of months: consistent single-digit subtraction, word find puzzles, holding playing cards in hands, dominoes, slicing bread, reading early readers, carrying cats.
Achievements leveled up: basic paper airplanes, grooming own hair, reading phonetic-spelling words, social assurance, awesomeness, mimetic drawing, the losing of milk-teeth, naming cats, soccer.
That last is the easiest to expand on: we marked growing from baby!jock into jock-in-training by joining a U6 soccer club. The joy on Eaglet’s face at the end of first practice proved the decision. We’re already on break for the summer (we get hot early, here in the desert) but summer day camps will be sports camps.
Current games include Uno, Crazy Eights, Go Fish (sometimes played in Chinese), Sorry!, Race for the Treasure, Outfoxed, Scrabble Junior, dominos, and kicking around a soccer ball. Recent media consumed include Wild Kratts, various Power Rangers series, Octonauts, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Captain Underpants (tra-la-LA!). Current books are all over the map, but include a special concern for medieval knights and castles, racing cars, and eagles. When being read to, they almost have enough attention span to get through an early chapter book without an illustration every page.
And in the end, I did capture a couple talking, talking bon mots:
(singing)
“Uh oh, Power Rangers!
Didn’t I tell you never stop?”
“I like itchy spots because you can scratch them as much as you like.”
“John Philip Sousa ... I like his music because they’re like marches. It sounds like Star Wars.”
(on a road trip, parents are jamming out to My Little Pony’s “Time To Be Awesome”)
(slightly whiny) “When can we hear John Philip Sousa?”
“I have a crush on muffins.”
“Why does [the Statue of] Liberty have a torch in one hand and a tablet in the other?”
Good question, Eaglet -- it does look like one, doesn’t it.
---L.
Subject quote from On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats.