Evangeline is very nearly 16 months now!
Feb. 17th, 2007 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So, yeah, updatey time.
http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/toddler/toddlerdevelopment/1213782.html
http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpdevelopment/0,,pg60,00.html
Her signs are getting more advanced. Instead of just opening and closing her hand for "fish", she now does that while moving her hand across her body. Instead of just clapping her hands for "book" and for "cup" (which seems to mean something like "anything that goes in my mouth that I want"), she signs book by flinging her hands out wildly when doing it, and cup by turning one hand upside down.
She also says a few real words, like (as I predicted) ba for book. Even "reee ba" sometimes! She's all about bringing books to us, climbing into our laps, and having us read. In a pinch, she'll just turn those pages herself, put it back, get a new book, and repeat the process.
She understands that "no" when she's walking outside a clear boundary means I'll start chasing her if she runs. This is *not* the message I want to understand, so I'm really working on the idea of "sign chase, and we can play in here". I'm convinced she really does know about those boundaries, because she doesn't run or play "peek, hide, and run" in other spots.
She's really into feeding us right now. Not always so much into feeding herself. Or, some days, eating at all. A few breakfasts, I've known she was frustrated with something, but nothing I suggested was enough - I couldn't feed her, she wouldn't feed herself, that sort of thing. (It was shortly after one such breakfast that I realized she's probably old enough to learn she can't just eat walking around, but should sit down at the table to do so; and also that if she's using her spoon to make a mess it's perfectly fair for me to take her bowl away and tell her it's just for eating, not playing.) Lunches go okay, though - maybe she's getting a lot more milk in the morning than I realized?
She pushes a lot right now. I mean, a lot. She pushed a little kid - her age - on Friday, and the kid's mom laughed, telling her "oh, she was in your way?" Which is better than flipping out unreasonably, but I asked her to please not encourage this sort of thing. She also bites, but it doesn't seem to be out of malice more than out of a very misplaced sense of fun and curiosity, which is something anyway.
She's decided lately that she wants to hold hands a lot while walking, and will sign "hold hands" at me (lift arms up, close and open hands a few times. This is similar to what we do when we want her to hold our hands, except our arms go *down* to her level), grab my finger, and just lead me around and around. Or stand still.
She uses the "go up" sign to mean more than just "go up in the sling" - the other day, she signed "go up" at me, then banged on the rocking horse a few times to make sure I got the point!
Everything still goes in the mouth, except crayons. Worse than crayons, she's decided that the stamps and ink at the SICM are just yummy. They're nontoxic, of course, but they make such a mess on her face and just... no. Not happening. No matter what she tries to tell me.
She's not sure if she likes people outside the family or not. Elise gets pretty upset by this. I try to tell her, it's nothing personal, babies are just like that.
She can climb in her swing by herself. She's not allowed.
She runs fast. She climbs up onto things fast. She climbs down (not falling!) pretty quickly (if not exactly fast).
She's fascinated with puzzles and shapesorters and toys that have keys. She can't do them yet, but she has the very general concept, and is just determined to figure them out. She doesn't get frustrated, either - she'll just plug along at them until she gets bored, or until she decides to make me help her.
She's up and down and up and down all the time right now. I've decided. Soon as Jenn moves and I have a teeny bit more income, I'm buying two things. I'm buying cloth pads, because I've put those off long enough, and I'm buying a ring sling. That's sure to come in handy.
Ana is also developing apace. Recently, we've been working a lot on jokes and riddles. I taught her the knock-knock joke with the banana. First time I told it to her, she made a face after it was done and told me "Don't say it again. It's not funny", but now she seems to understand it, and will tell other people. She told her dad, and he groaned in terror, which is why I taught it to her in the first place. (It sure wasn't so I could hear it 100 times!) And she knows why the woman threw the butter out the window, and why the ghost got a band-aid. I don't think she understands why these jokes are ostensibly funny, but.
Lizziey, apparently, you called on my birthday? I didn't get any indication on my cell phone until just now. That thing sucks. Call tomorrow or I will, I suppose.
http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/toddler/toddlerdevelopment/1213782.html
http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpdevelopment/0,,pg60,00.html
Her signs are getting more advanced. Instead of just opening and closing her hand for "fish", she now does that while moving her hand across her body. Instead of just clapping her hands for "book" and for "cup" (which seems to mean something like "anything that goes in my mouth that I want"), she signs book by flinging her hands out wildly when doing it, and cup by turning one hand upside down.
She also says a few real words, like (as I predicted) ba for book. Even "reee ba" sometimes! She's all about bringing books to us, climbing into our laps, and having us read. In a pinch, she'll just turn those pages herself, put it back, get a new book, and repeat the process.
She understands that "no" when she's walking outside a clear boundary means I'll start chasing her if she runs. This is *not* the message I want to understand, so I'm really working on the idea of "sign chase, and we can play in here". I'm convinced she really does know about those boundaries, because she doesn't run or play "peek, hide, and run" in other spots.
She's really into feeding us right now. Not always so much into feeding herself. Or, some days, eating at all. A few breakfasts, I've known she was frustrated with something, but nothing I suggested was enough - I couldn't feed her, she wouldn't feed herself, that sort of thing. (It was shortly after one such breakfast that I realized she's probably old enough to learn she can't just eat walking around, but should sit down at the table to do so; and also that if she's using her spoon to make a mess it's perfectly fair for me to take her bowl away and tell her it's just for eating, not playing.) Lunches go okay, though - maybe she's getting a lot more milk in the morning than I realized?
She pushes a lot right now. I mean, a lot. She pushed a little kid - her age - on Friday, and the kid's mom laughed, telling her "oh, she was in your way?" Which is better than flipping out unreasonably, but I asked her to please not encourage this sort of thing. She also bites, but it doesn't seem to be out of malice more than out of a very misplaced sense of fun and curiosity, which is something anyway.
She's decided lately that she wants to hold hands a lot while walking, and will sign "hold hands" at me (lift arms up, close and open hands a few times. This is similar to what we do when we want her to hold our hands, except our arms go *down* to her level), grab my finger, and just lead me around and around. Or stand still.
She uses the "go up" sign to mean more than just "go up in the sling" - the other day, she signed "go up" at me, then banged on the rocking horse a few times to make sure I got the point!
Everything still goes in the mouth, except crayons. Worse than crayons, she's decided that the stamps and ink at the SICM are just yummy. They're nontoxic, of course, but they make such a mess on her face and just... no. Not happening. No matter what she tries to tell me.
She's not sure if she likes people outside the family or not. Elise gets pretty upset by this. I try to tell her, it's nothing personal, babies are just like that.
She can climb in her swing by herself. She's not allowed.
She runs fast. She climbs up onto things fast. She climbs down (not falling!) pretty quickly (if not exactly fast).
She's fascinated with puzzles and shapesorters and toys that have keys. She can't do them yet, but she has the very general concept, and is just determined to figure them out. She doesn't get frustrated, either - she'll just plug along at them until she gets bored, or until she decides to make me help her.
She's up and down and up and down all the time right now. I've decided. Soon as Jenn moves and I have a teeny bit more income, I'm buying two things. I'm buying cloth pads, because I've put those off long enough, and I'm buying a ring sling. That's sure to come in handy.
Ana is also developing apace. Recently, we've been working a lot on jokes and riddles. I taught her the knock-knock joke with the banana. First time I told it to her, she made a face after it was done and told me "Don't say it again. It's not funny", but now she seems to understand it, and will tell other people. She told her dad, and he groaned in terror, which is why I taught it to her in the first place. (It sure wasn't so I could hear it 100 times!) And she knows why the woman threw the butter out the window, and why the ghost got a band-aid. I don't think she understands why these jokes are ostensibly funny, but.
Lizziey, apparently, you called on my birthday? I didn't get any indication on my cell phone until just now. That thing sucks. Call tomorrow or I will, I suppose.
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