Monday, January 19, 2009
Above our Shoulders
We've been wondering if we want to snip Esme's bangs. They're getting in the way when she eats! For now, we've compromised to putting it up in an elastic when she is eating. Maybe it will get long enough soon we can put it all up (and not have her take it back out).
Other hair-raising developments:
Mark caught this picture of me last week
the long hair wasn't doing me any favors!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Little things she does
At fourteen and a half months:
We were reading a book that shows a doctor using a stethoscope on a child in one of the stories. Esme has a Fisher Price stethoscope we bought at the flea market before she was even born. Since she got to have it for her play area she brings it to me and I put it in my ears and put the listening end to her chest and say 'I hear your heart boom boom boom.' She saw the page and pointed at the stethoscope - I told her it was a 'stethoscope, boom boom boom', and she went and dug in her toy box and found the stethoscope and was very happy about it.
She has taken an even greater liking to stacking things on/in each other. I found some boxes that open in different ways and she has been bringing them up and asking us to help her with them. It isn't a real word yet, but she is saying something the same way each time she asks, and it has two syllables. One box she can open but not close, and the other so far she can close but not open. She uses the same word for each request of 'help.' but it sounds more like 'open.'
She brought me my cell phone yesterday and said some three syllable babble question. I tried calling my mom and got no answer, so I said 'Not home' and put the phone down on the desk. She runs over to Mark's desk and grabs his phone, brings it to me and asks 'Daddy? and asked the babble word again too. It was surprising she understood that was Daddy's phone, and included that in her question to try making that one talk :) Mark has a box and a little dresser of computer parts near his desk too and I often say 'No, Daddy's' when she is going to get into it and that will stop her and maybe sometimes even send her looking around to find Daddy. Too bad 'Mommy's cup' doesn't have the same effect!
We were reading a book that shows a doctor using a stethoscope on a child in one of the stories. Esme has a Fisher Price stethoscope we bought at the flea market before she was even born. Since she got to have it for her play area she brings it to me and I put it in my ears and put the listening end to her chest and say 'I hear your heart boom boom boom.' She saw the page and pointed at the stethoscope - I told her it was a 'stethoscope, boom boom boom', and she went and dug in her toy box and found the stethoscope and was very happy about it.
She has taken an even greater liking to stacking things on/in each other. I found some boxes that open in different ways and she has been bringing them up and asking us to help her with them. It isn't a real word yet, but she is saying something the same way each time she asks, and it has two syllables. One box she can open but not close, and the other so far she can close but not open. She uses the same word for each request of 'help.' but it sounds more like 'open.'
She brought me my cell phone yesterday and said some three syllable babble question. I tried calling my mom and got no answer, so I said 'Not home' and put the phone down on the desk. She runs over to Mark's desk and grabs his phone, brings it to me and asks 'Daddy? and asked the babble word again too. It was surprising she understood that was Daddy's phone, and included that in her question to try making that one talk :) Mark has a box and a little dresser of computer parts near his desk too and I often say 'No, Daddy's' when she is going to get into it and that will stop her and maybe sometimes even send her looking around to find Daddy. Too bad 'Mommy's cup' doesn't have the same effect!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wool Mittens finished and Workshop relocation
I finished the wool mittens I was knitting. I do still knit sometimes - but this is the first major non-dishcloth I've made in a long time. I bought a pair of gloves this season and they were coming apart on the first wearing! That made me motivated enough to knit something myself again. I say at least I know where the flaws are in these because I put them there heh...
Wool yarn bought from Knitpicks ages ago, size 3 DPNS, my own hands as pattern. The two aren't exactly the same and far from perfect but they are warm and fit my hands.
I also knit this dropstitch scarf using some variegated Red Heart yarn and big needles. It has been keeping my ears warm while I wait in my cold vehicle for the manager to come open the store at 3 am. (open as in let us in to work, we don't open until 7)
She found this bit of plastic string in one of our boxes and I put it on her hair for a few minutes and let her see herself by taking a picture. She loves to look at the screen after a picture is taken - knows it was something that was just seen, like herself, a kitty etc... and is amazed by it. The string went in the garbage after playing with it.
I'm moving my workshop downstairs in our house. That will let us expand the area Esme has for a 'safe play' area and give us more room to upgrade her to a toddler bed sometime soon as she is outgrowing her 'stage 2' pen-like bed. She is getting so big, over 30 inches tall now! Someday that room the workshop is going into now will be hers, but not until I know she can go up and down the stairs without falling!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Want Daddy's Camera Tantrum
Begins to cry loudly...
Brown Rabbit's shape and colors balloon book
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Working on things with Esme
We tried rolling her ball again today and she got it when Daddy helped. She even kicked it a few times for him. This is hard to do alone with her because she wants to sit in my lap and then she doesn't want to go get the ball when it is rolled... she brought me a book instead of the ball and got upset that it wasn't the right thing. She knows 'find me a book' and 'sit in your chair' and 'where's your milk?' but I'm trying to see how much else she knows. If I ask her something like 'where's the ball' or 'where's your nose' she might give the right answer one out of five times, getting frustrated the rest of the time and not wanting to play.
She is stacking her blocks ever higher, at least seven high now, and in more elaborate formations. We're working on numbers 1, 2, and 3. She learned to twirl in circles the other day and was making us laugh at her with it.
We're working on the new hand puzzle Mark got her. She loves taking it apart and is trying to put it together. It doesn't have one hole for every piece like her other puzzles -- so it is harder. I showed her it was a hand with fingers and she took one of the finger pieces and put it on top of my finger and laughed about it.
I was telling her the zipper on my jacket was a ZZZZZipper a few days ago, and when we got to the Zebra in her animal book she tried to find the zipper on my shirt which wasn't there. She made a sign like going up and down and pointed to my shirt as soon as I said 'zzzzebra' so it dawned on me she was thinking about the zipper. I got the zipper jacket and played some more with her but told her the picture was a ZzzzEBRA, it just sounded like the z in zipper.
She started saying duh for duck and mmmmmuh for milk, both new words for her. She doesn't get the end consonant in either word at all, just makes it more forceful instead of saying the 'k'. Her dah for Dog and duh for Duck and daddy/dadada and 'dat' all sound so much alike you have to know what she is looking at to understand the difference. Kitty is very clear. Mom and mumumum (pacifier) and mmmmmuh (milk) are also run together. I'm starting to think she is trying to say lots of stuff but hasn't learned enough differentation to make us hear it. She puts her fingers in my mouth and on my nose a lot when I'm saying words to her. Yet her hearing is perfect because she dances to music, heard the 'zzzz' in the other word, meows at the cats and howls with the dogs etc...
We went to the library on Saturday and got some more new books :)
She is stacking her blocks ever higher, at least seven high now, and in more elaborate formations. We're working on numbers 1, 2, and 3. She learned to twirl in circles the other day and was making us laugh at her with it.
We're working on the new hand puzzle Mark got her. She loves taking it apart and is trying to put it together. It doesn't have one hole for every piece like her other puzzles -- so it is harder. I showed her it was a hand with fingers and she took one of the finger pieces and put it on top of my finger and laughed about it.
I was telling her the zipper on my jacket was a ZZZZZipper a few days ago, and when we got to the Zebra in her animal book she tried to find the zipper on my shirt which wasn't there. She made a sign like going up and down and pointed to my shirt as soon as I said 'zzzzebra' so it dawned on me she was thinking about the zipper. I got the zipper jacket and played some more with her but told her the picture was a ZzzzEBRA, it just sounded like the z in zipper.
She started saying duh for duck and mmmmmuh for milk, both new words for her. She doesn't get the end consonant in either word at all, just makes it more forceful instead of saying the 'k'. Her dah for Dog and duh for Duck and daddy/dadada and 'dat' all sound so much alike you have to know what she is looking at to understand the difference. Kitty is very clear. Mom and mumumum (pacifier) and mmmmmuh (milk) are also run together. I'm starting to think she is trying to say lots of stuff but hasn't learned enough differentation to make us hear it. She puts her fingers in my mouth and on my nose a lot when I'm saying words to her. Yet her hearing is perfect because she dances to music, heard the 'zzzz' in the other word, meows at the cats and howls with the dogs etc...
We went to the library on Saturday and got some more new books :)
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