Evangeline update, for her 25th month :)
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She speaks a heck of a lot. Full sentences, real conversations - it's actually frightening. I guess maybe it always is when kids hit this stage, but she seems too young for it.
And she has the weirdest words. Today, sitting on the toilet... "Evangeline, did you go poo-poo?" "No, Connie, no poo-poo. I *shake head* go putt-putt eye-vah" Either? What sort of two year old says either? I didn't even know any of us said that word that often around her, anyway.
She has a book she got for her birthday, a "word" book. She loves it. Today she took her chair carefully from her room, moved it carefully in front of the bookcase, carefully climbed up and removed the book from the very top shelf where I'd carefully hidden it away, very carefully not letting it smack her on her head, and asked me to read it. Well, "she" reads it. She points to items, and if she probably knows what they are, I tell her they're elephants. "No, Connie, na effant. Bir-ee (birdie)!" (Or cur-ul (squirrel), or foo-foo (that's not foo-foo like little bunny foo-foo, that's foo-foo like if you were saying woof-woof and didn't get it quite right, which in fact is what she's doing), or winno (window), or whatever else.) This is, of course, hysterical.
Angelique has figured out that she can hit her sister back if Evangeline starts out pinching or hitting. She's not, of course, allowed to do this. Still, I'm pretty relieved. As I predicted months ago (when she'd just sit there and tell me to make her stop, which was very annoying considering that half the time Angelique had provoked her sister anyway, not that that makes it right....), Evangeline drastically stopped doing this when she realized her sister wasn't just going to let her anymore. It would not have worked if I'd smacked her (even if I could get past Angelique suddenly deciding that her sister was the wronged party and defending her with might and main, which I just *know* is what would happen if I tried, and I only have so much time in the day to work out who's harming whom), but her sister getting upset enough to hit back, that seems to have made an impression. More than time-outs did, anyway, which is how it came to this point in the first place.
Evangeline (back to her!) is still very much into fire trucks, busses, fire trucks, other kinds of trucks, fire trucks, boats, airplanes, and, oh yes, fire trucks. I may hide all vehicle related books if this keeps up. I hate to discourage her, but if I'd realized they were as tedious as they are, I would have bought different ones.
She consistently is dry for long hours of time, and tells us when she's about to go poo-poo, and pees on the toilet if we get her there at the right time. Today she went in Angelique's panties for a while, even, no diaper, with only a teeny accident.
Can't think of anything else.
And she has the weirdest words. Today, sitting on the toilet... "Evangeline, did you go poo-poo?" "No, Connie, no poo-poo. I *shake head* go putt-putt eye-vah" Either? What sort of two year old says either? I didn't even know any of us said that word that often around her, anyway.
She has a book she got for her birthday, a "word" book. She loves it. Today she took her chair carefully from her room, moved it carefully in front of the bookcase, carefully climbed up and removed the book from the very top shelf where I'd carefully hidden it away, very carefully not letting it smack her on her head, and asked me to read it. Well, "she" reads it. She points to items, and if she probably knows what they are, I tell her they're elephants. "No, Connie, na effant. Bir-ee (birdie)!" (Or cur-ul (squirrel), or foo-foo (that's not foo-foo like little bunny foo-foo, that's foo-foo like if you were saying woof-woof and didn't get it quite right, which in fact is what she's doing), or winno (window), or whatever else.) This is, of course, hysterical.
Angelique has figured out that she can hit her sister back if Evangeline starts out pinching or hitting. She's not, of course, allowed to do this. Still, I'm pretty relieved. As I predicted months ago (when she'd just sit there and tell me to make her stop, which was very annoying considering that half the time Angelique had provoked her sister anyway, not that that makes it right....), Evangeline drastically stopped doing this when she realized her sister wasn't just going to let her anymore. It would not have worked if I'd smacked her (even if I could get past Angelique suddenly deciding that her sister was the wronged party and defending her with might and main, which I just *know* is what would happen if I tried, and I only have so much time in the day to work out who's harming whom), but her sister getting upset enough to hit back, that seems to have made an impression. More than time-outs did, anyway, which is how it came to this point in the first place.
Evangeline (back to her!) is still very much into fire trucks, busses, fire trucks, other kinds of trucks, fire trucks, boats, airplanes, and, oh yes, fire trucks. I may hide all vehicle related books if this keeps up. I hate to discourage her, but if I'd realized they were as tedious as they are, I would have bought different ones.
She consistently is dry for long hours of time, and tells us when she's about to go poo-poo, and pees on the toilet if we get her there at the right time. Today she went in Angelique's panties for a while, even, no diaper, with only a teeny accident.
Can't think of anything else.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:04 am (UTC)Maylie's new thing is "certainly". (I can certainly do that!)
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:09 am (UTC)Angelique went through an "actually" stage. Now her new word is "husband". She pretends she's the mom just so she can grab her sister, declare her "Daddy" (and now Evangeline will play along and go "I daddy!" if they're pretending to give me a nap or read me a book or whatnot) and say that "Daddy - I mean Abdul - is my husband. Goodbye husband!"
Am I too self-centered? This comment sounds self-centered. I'm sorry.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:20 am (UTC)Greg was an early talker. He talks pretty well vocab-wise but his speech makes him hard to understand sometimes. he was saying something in the car to me today and I had NO idea what he was saying. then he got mad because I was saying the wrong thing back to him, and he goes "I will just say it, not you!" ha ha ha.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:25 am (UTC)And I have that trouble with Evangeline sometimes too, except that unless she actually *wants* something, she'll just keep repeating herself until you distract her with something shiny.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-29 05:04 am (UTC)Maylie's new thing is "certainly". (I can certainly do that!)
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:09 am (UTC)Angelique went through an "actually" stage. Now her new word is "husband". She pretends she's the mom just so she can grab her sister, declare her "Daddy" (and now Evangeline will play along and go "I daddy!" if they're pretending to give me a nap or read me a book or whatnot) and say that "Daddy - I mean Abdul - is my husband. Goodbye husband!"
Am I too self-centered? This comment sounds self-centered. I'm sorry.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:20 am (UTC)Greg was an early talker. He talks pretty well vocab-wise but his speech makes him hard to understand sometimes. he was saying something in the car to me today and I had NO idea what he was saying. then he got mad because I was saying the wrong thing back to him, and he goes "I will just say it, not you!" ha ha ha.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:25 am (UTC)And I have that trouble with Evangeline sometimes too, except that unless she actually *wants* something, she'll just keep repeating herself until you distract her with something shiny.
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Date: 2007-11-29 05:11 am (UTC)