Esme: 'bye bye poop - have a good day! FLUSH.'
me: 'it's an octopus, it can sing if it wants to. It's a trick for an octopus to sing, enjoy it!' (Daddy made balloon animals and one of them was an octopus)
Esme: 'Miss Piggy YOU THE ONE!' (singing along with Lou Rawls on the Muppet Show)
There was lots about the headphones when I put them on her later - she was talking to Beethoven's Ninth thinking it was someone on the phone - where they start singing Hallelujah etc... and telling them about the color of her shirt etc and wondering why they didn't talk back. Then when the next just music came on she kept telling me it was pretty and taking it off and putting it back on her ears etc..
Esme: 'it's a coseeheedon (icosohedron), PRETTY' Mark: what? what was that? Me: It was labeled on Makezine, so I read it to her!' We were looking at hexagons and pentagons last night in a craft pattern and she really liked that - so when I saw the 'platonic solids done in beads' on Makezine I made sure to show her those, too.
Esme: 'oooooo it's play a TOY!' (seeing me looking through playmobil stuff on Ebay)
Esme: 'bear you go to TOWN, purple boots, you are ready, you go truck go TOWN. (seconds later) BEAR YOU HOME! Off shoe. No No No. on boot *cry frustrate / bring to mom* On brown shoe BEAR! on BOOT, purple boot. etc etc..' <-- we take off our shoes when we get home, and then she was mad because she wanted them back on the bear. Her shoes are 'brown shoe', the bear's shoes are purple boots I made.
Daddy telling her we will go to the fair and see colored lights and ride a ferris wheel. She was really happy about that - and then we looked at the weather forecast and thought we would go tomorrow. Then she was very unhappy about it. I told her we could go for a walk instead and we ended up at Grandma's again.
NOTES Ninja cat and Iggy dog were spayed today. It worked out pretty well and they are resting nicely. We had to think back some - Ninja was probably born around July of 2009, Iggy was probably born in May of 2009 (we got her in June). Looking at all the old pictures on the blog trying to figure this out (ninja was hard as her birth was not on the blog but a previous litter was... ) caught photos of Esme with a pacifier in her mouth just over a year ago. She has grown so much since then it is hard to believe.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Bear and thread spools
Esme had me drawing a bear on her magnadoodle and dressing him up in shirt and pants and shoes and a hat. So, I sat down and made her this bear out of some pieces of felt. I will think about making some clothes for him so she can dress him.
It was very cute she kept coming over to see if he was done - knew he was a bear as soon as she saw the head cut out etc... Now they are stacking thread spools together.
paper dolls and paper kitty
something I made the other night ... simple freehand cutting and I could do a lot better with an exacto knife and some more care. Esme is outside playing with Daddy and the garden hose, watering the roof of the house and filling the dog dishes and washing out the cat carrier. Ninja kitty goes to the vet tomorrow to be spayed.
NOTE: Esme was noticing more numbers today and thinks that doubled numbers are funny, apparently. She read '9 9' off our fast food slip today and was thinking that was funny with two nines. She also read 8-1-1 (date) off of my watch and said that the two one's were also funny. She had a great time at my workplace this morning with Daddy showing all of my coworkers the mud she had gotten on her hand and the duck pattern on her pants. In the store we bought her a new pillow and she put it across the top of the cart in her lap and put her head down and pretended to sleep. She is now taking a two hour nap and I should wake her up and see what she wants for dinner.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
dollhouse card antics and ketchup
Esme's usual dolly family that she plays with. They are a little more worn and dirty than when we bought them. There are several other members of the family, another girl, a baby, a grandma and a grandpa. They are not all from the same 'set' originally. There is also a kitty hairclip that Grandma Irene gave her - and that is the kitty of the family. ;)
Showing her reflection (in the back of my printer casing) the ketchup on her finger.
Almost evil look as she shows it to me and the camera. Yikes!
They all like to play in the memory game cards in this box from the fruit set.
This is the kitty welcoming the Mama 'HOME' from work and giving her licks like a puppy.... *haha*
NOTE: I gave in to the clearance rack last night and bought this blue shirt for two bucks... she really likes it!
Monday, August 09, 2010
Minor nose catastrophe
Minor nose catastrophe yesterday morning as I was serving Esme her breakfast. I set it on the table, she took three bites and ran off after a cat. As I was calling 'Esme - come back and eat your breakfast!' I hear TH-THUMP TH-THUMP at the bottom of the stairs. Somehow she managed to skin her nose falling after the cat there. She cried - and I carried her to her chair and set her in front of her breakfast. Then she stopped crying and asked for a 'zebra cake' sweet. I told her no, and she pretended to cry again and then ran back after the cat. *sigh*... the nose took a few hours to 'develop' while I was at work - but it looks like it will be all better in a few days, unless she bumps it again somewhere.
This morning she was having swing rides for her dollhouse girls on a leash hanging on the wall for the dog. One doll was swinging and saying 'this is fun! push!' and the other girl was 'pushing' and/or riding as well and saying 'we're going to fall AHHHHHHH' then they had a fight over whose 'mine' the swing was, and one girl fell. I told them to play nicely on the swing *roll eyes* and they did for a few more minutes. Sometimes she cracks me up with the things she comes up with.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Saturday night and 33 months update
Home from work and back early tomorrow. The sewing machine is now doing the opposite problem it was doing a week ago... and it is just too hot lately to mess much with it. I might drag myself over there to disassemble it and try to squirrel out the problem a bit later... I might not. I was handsewing the hexagons during a movie last night just for something easy to do that would not be something I would normally do with a machine. And I saw non foursquare hexagons on somebody's blog after finishing the wall around Eden by Joan Slonczewski, which has hexagonal fields and 'eyeglasses' and other hexagonal things.
I scored a light canvas weight curtain display the other day I am making some more hexagons out of, and would like to dig in my fabric for a light weight red canvas or medium weight cotton... I'm sure there is something in there just have to find where it is.
This morning before I went to work I printed out a lot of label words for Esme's teaset, fruitstand and sandwich toys and a few of her animals. I taped them to colored cardstock and we had some fun with those before I had to go to work. I just wish I would have 'bold ideas' like that some more than an hour before I have to leave in my vehicle, so we don't have to put it away just as we are having fun.
Right now Esme is begging to play with the remote control car but Daddy and I have told her it is asleep. In another year she won't believe us when we say things are asleep and can't be played with, or that they live on the toy store shelf so they have to go back with the others etc... but we're enjoying those 'fibs' while they last.
Some development notes: We measured Esme at 36 inches tall the other day. We haven't weighed her in a good while - but Grandma said she was over 30 lbs when she played on the scale at her house months ago. I'm sure she has gained weight since then. She is very solid, not spindly - and she has MUSCLES in her arms when she tries to pick up something big it is impressive. She is in a size 9-10 toddler shoe and I am still using 3-4 sewing patterns for her. She knows all of her alphabet letters (individually, still won't sing the song) and most of her numerals and all the 'regular' colors blue, red, orange, yellow (has trouble saying), purple, white, brown, green, black, pink. I haven't tried hard to teach her anything like gray or turquoise 'fancy' colors. I have heard her singing along with some CD songs in the car and the Muppet Show and Electric Company themes.
She walks around backwards for fun and swings on her swing by herself, hanging on tight (cross fingers). She swims well wearing her floatee life jacket. Most of the time she loves to tell pretend play stories with her animals and plastic dolls and their cars, dollhouse and etc.. We get attacked by fanged walruses and dinosaurs wanting lettuce sandwiches and sometimes her plastic dolls have a grape-stomping party in the crayon box where they all jump up and down and then pretend to eat the crayons. I have no idea what that is about, but it does make me laugh. I get stories about mama and daddy and little girl dolls going to town and to work, and to find grandma and grandpa dolls and plastic dogs and cats etc etc.. they have a very busy schedule, these dollhouse dolls. She also loves to draw with crayons and serve pretend food and stack towers and line up patterns of blocks on the floor.
She really knows what is going on in her shows now - and makes commentary like 'bye alien have a good day!' when the alien takes off in his ship. We often hear 'poor sheep' or 'poor dog' when she thinks someone has reason to be sad or is in pain/trouble on a tv show. She also tells the tv characters (like mama mouse in secret of nimh) that they do a good job when they accomplish something big. Her memory is still outstanding, remembering things about tv shows and town trips and other things that I have to think hard about. Her language has gotten so much better. She can say full sentences most everyone understands but sometimes I still need to translate some of her words, especially those with 'l' or 'm' in them or when she runs them together oddly (usual for her age!). An example is 'This (is) a purple sticker with EYES Daddy, it funny.' etc... She had gotten a purple silly face sticker from the lady at the bank and even I had to look back and realize she was saying 'with EYES' because it didn't seem to go with the sentence at first and it sounded like one word. Still calling me 'mumum' which I think she finds easier to say even than 'mama.'
Mark adds: We'll forget these things if we don't write them down - like the fact that she was ever such a good girl.. haha.. when she is crashing cars at age ten and blowing up the chemistry lab etc etc... Today while I was at work he was brought a pear and a pink pig and asked if the pink pig can eat the pear. He was also attacked by the walrus today and licked as if it was a puppy. Also at 7:15 he asked Esme to pick up all her toys so they would be 'pick up put away' when Mama got home from work. She did that - and then waited for me at the door expectantly, as if it would cause me to appear! I didn't actually get home until 7:45, and she got sad somewhere in there... but was happy when I got home and we immediately went for drink cups in the kitchen.
I scored a light canvas weight curtain display the other day I am making some more hexagons out of, and would like to dig in my fabric for a light weight red canvas or medium weight cotton... I'm sure there is something in there just have to find where it is.
This morning before I went to work I printed out a lot of label words for Esme's teaset, fruitstand and sandwich toys and a few of her animals. I taped them to colored cardstock and we had some fun with those before I had to go to work. I just wish I would have 'bold ideas' like that some more than an hour before I have to leave in my vehicle, so we don't have to put it away just as we are having fun.
Right now Esme is begging to play with the remote control car but Daddy and I have told her it is asleep. In another year she won't believe us when we say things are asleep and can't be played with, or that they live on the toy store shelf so they have to go back with the others etc... but we're enjoying those 'fibs' while they last.
Some development notes: We measured Esme at 36 inches tall the other day. We haven't weighed her in a good while - but Grandma said she was over 30 lbs when she played on the scale at her house months ago. I'm sure she has gained weight since then. She is very solid, not spindly - and she has MUSCLES in her arms when she tries to pick up something big it is impressive. She is in a size 9-10 toddler shoe and I am still using 3-4 sewing patterns for her. She knows all of her alphabet letters (individually, still won't sing the song) and most of her numerals and all the 'regular' colors blue, red, orange, yellow (has trouble saying), purple, white, brown, green, black, pink. I haven't tried hard to teach her anything like gray or turquoise 'fancy' colors. I have heard her singing along with some CD songs in the car and the Muppet Show and Electric Company themes.
She walks around backwards for fun and swings on her swing by herself, hanging on tight (cross fingers). She swims well wearing her floatee life jacket. Most of the time she loves to tell pretend play stories with her animals and plastic dolls and their cars, dollhouse and etc.. We get attacked by fanged walruses and dinosaurs wanting lettuce sandwiches and sometimes her plastic dolls have a grape-stomping party in the crayon box where they all jump up and down and then pretend to eat the crayons. I have no idea what that is about, but it does make me laugh. I get stories about mama and daddy and little girl dolls going to town and to work, and to find grandma and grandpa dolls and plastic dogs and cats etc etc.. they have a very busy schedule, these dollhouse dolls. She also loves to draw with crayons and serve pretend food and stack towers and line up patterns of blocks on the floor.
She really knows what is going on in her shows now - and makes commentary like 'bye alien have a good day!' when the alien takes off in his ship. We often hear 'poor sheep' or 'poor dog' when she thinks someone has reason to be sad or is in pain/trouble on a tv show. She also tells the tv characters (like mama mouse in secret of nimh) that they do a good job when they accomplish something big. Her memory is still outstanding, remembering things about tv shows and town trips and other things that I have to think hard about. Her language has gotten so much better. She can say full sentences most everyone understands but sometimes I still need to translate some of her words, especially those with 'l' or 'm' in them or when she runs them together oddly (usual for her age!). An example is 'This (is) a purple sticker with EYES Daddy, it funny.' etc... She had gotten a purple silly face sticker from the lady at the bank and even I had to look back and realize she was saying 'with EYES' because it didn't seem to go with the sentence at first and it sounded like one word. Still calling me 'mumum' which I think she finds easier to say even than 'mama.'
Mark adds: We'll forget these things if we don't write them down - like the fact that she was ever such a good girl.. haha.. when she is crashing cars at age ten and blowing up the chemistry lab etc etc... Today while I was at work he was brought a pear and a pink pig and asked if the pink pig can eat the pear. He was also attacked by the walrus today and licked as if it was a puppy. Also at 7:15 he asked Esme to pick up all her toys so they would be 'pick up put away' when Mama got home from work. She did that - and then waited for me at the door expectantly, as if it would cause me to appear! I didn't actually get home until 7:45, and she got sad somewhere in there... but was happy when I got home and we immediately went for drink cups in the kitchen.
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