![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Wherin wherever she is, there's something in between her and me so I can't see her?
The baby's got one too. If she should fall asleep anywhere near my vicinity, I get yawny and cross-eyed as well. Soon as she's awake, I'm better. It's her very first Evil Psychic Power!
I wish she'd picked the Evil Psychic Power that causes random people to giveher me candy and/or money, but such is life. These things can't be controlled.
Evangeline also is almost capable of clapping or bouncing in time with music. I'm not kidding. Not only does she clearly try to do this (slapping her knee, even, as I tend to do if I can't tap a foot), but she manages to hit a rhythm, even if she does tend to be a few beats too slow/fast for the song we're actually singing. I'm officially awed. This is amazing. Do you know how long it took Ana to figure out that songs even *had* any sort of rhythm? Just this year! She finally figured it out a few months ago, with the clapping and all!
Of course, I do sing a lot when walking or on the bus, and that means I sing while patting the baby on the back in time with my music. Perhaps this is influencing her more than I realized....
Evangeling has also figured out how to climb down stairs. Or, specifically, *a* stair - the stage in the SICM. I refuse to allow her to try anything more difficult yet.
Back to Ana, she's still a perfect doll when she's being nice. Feeding the baby approved foods. Trying to wipe up the baby during a diaper change (I thanked her and then told her she couldn't). Giving huge, spontaneous cheers and applause when the baby does something new.
And her new thing - not only does she finally say "Thank you" loud and clear when somebody pays her a compliment, she's picked up something I know I didn't teach her - she gives a (often related) compliment in return! So when Deniz said "Ana! I really like your ribbons!" one day, Ana replied, like it was nothing "Thanks. And I really like your... your scrunchie, too!"
I'm not sure any of us taught her this. She must be doing it from example of others or something.
Of course, we're still working on the three steps of thank you. It's not enough just to say "thanks", you have to 1. say it so that people can hear you (no mumbling under your breath and then getting upset when I ask if you said it) 2. say it when not already walking off (look at your feet, look at what you just got, look at the person you're thanking - don't start leaving right away) and 3. get their attention first.
We're trying to get a minimum of one out of three on these, with a limited amount of success. It's an uphill battle.
The baby's got one too. If she should fall asleep anywhere near my vicinity, I get yawny and cross-eyed as well. Soon as she's awake, I'm better. It's her very first Evil Psychic Power!
I wish she'd picked the Evil Psychic Power that causes random people to give
Evangeline also is almost capable of clapping or bouncing in time with music. I'm not kidding. Not only does she clearly try to do this (slapping her knee, even, as I tend to do if I can't tap a foot), but she manages to hit a rhythm, even if she does tend to be a few beats too slow/fast for the song we're actually singing. I'm officially awed. This is amazing. Do you know how long it took Ana to figure out that songs even *had* any sort of rhythm? Just this year! She finally figured it out a few months ago, with the clapping and all!
Of course, I do sing a lot when walking or on the bus, and that means I sing while patting the baby on the back in time with my music. Perhaps this is influencing her more than I realized....
Evangeling has also figured out how to climb down stairs. Or, specifically, *a* stair - the stage in the SICM. I refuse to allow her to try anything more difficult yet.
Back to Ana, she's still a perfect doll when she's being nice. Feeding the baby approved foods. Trying to wipe up the baby during a diaper change (I thanked her and then told her she couldn't). Giving huge, spontaneous cheers and applause when the baby does something new.
And her new thing - not only does she finally say "Thank you" loud and clear when somebody pays her a compliment, she's picked up something I know I didn't teach her - she gives a (often related) compliment in return! So when Deniz said "Ana! I really like your ribbons!" one day, Ana replied, like it was nothing "Thanks. And I really like your... your scrunchie, too!"
I'm not sure any of us taught her this. She must be doing it from example of others or something.
Of course, we're still working on the three steps of thank you. It's not enough just to say "thanks", you have to 1. say it so that people can hear you (no mumbling under your breath and then getting upset when I ask if you said it) 2. say it when not already walking off (look at your feet, look at what you just got, look at the person you're thanking - don't start leaving right away) and 3. get their attention first.
We're trying to get a minimum of one out of three on these, with a limited amount of success. It's an uphill battle.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:29 am (UTC)That thar is that NT thing-- mirror neurons?
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:35 am (UTC)At any rate, it's really cool, and quite spontaneous. That's the best part. (Especially as I had the hardest time convincing her that you should say thank you even if you don't actually get anything. I don't even know that I convinced her - I think she just figured it out on her own in the end, completely ignoring anything I had previously said on the subject, because I hadn't brought it up in ages when she started thanking people for compliments.)
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 02:52 pm (UTC)Ahhhahahahahaa! So my plan is working, I see...
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:47 pm (UTC)My cousin did the whole related compliment thing last time we visited...I said to her "I like your PJs!" because she, at 11am, was still in her very cute sleepwear. so then we were going down the stairs, about 10 minutes later, and she goes "I like your blue shirt and your jeans that you're wearing!" It was rather surprising to me.
Sometimes kids just come up with the most unexpected things. And I'm always forgetting what it is that kids do at what ages...so I'm generally surprised because I think they're just little kids, but they're really learning some quite interesting and important things.
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:29 am (UTC)That thar is that NT thing-- mirror neurons?
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:35 am (UTC)At any rate, it's really cool, and quite spontaneous. That's the best part. (Especially as I had the hardest time convincing her that you should say thank you even if you don't actually get anything. I don't even know that I convinced her - I think she just figured it out on her own in the end, completely ignoring anything I had previously said on the subject, because I hadn't brought it up in ages when she started thanking people for compliments.)
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 02:52 pm (UTC)Ahhhahahahahaa! So my plan is working, I see...
no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 03:47 pm (UTC)My cousin did the whole related compliment thing last time we visited...I said to her "I like your PJs!" because she, at 11am, was still in her very cute sleepwear. so then we were going down the stairs, about 10 minutes later, and she goes "I like your blue shirt and your jeans that you're wearing!" It was rather surprising to me.
Sometimes kids just come up with the most unexpected things. And I'm always forgetting what it is that kids do at what ages...so I'm generally surprised because I think they're just little kids, but they're really learning some quite interesting and important things.