10.05.2010
19.5 Months, Lindsayisms
... Having pretend phone conversations with household items that resemble a phone: a banana, a small rectangle piece of wood, etc.... "Hell-oh? Grandma? Papa? Daddy? Hell-oh? Bye bye."
... Asking for opera music "op-ah sissick" during meals and pointing to the iPhone or iPod dock. Then I bribe her and say if you eat two more peas you can listen to opera music! Mean Mommy.
... Pointing out letters everywhere she sees them, and actually getting P and W correct every time!
... Talking about pee pee and poops in the potty, but not doing anything about it. Obsessed with toilet paper, but I won't let her have it until she goes in the potty (she did once, so she got to play with the "tissue").
... Watching Mommy cook and talking about how the oven is hot. Asking me to cut her food ("cut it, Mommy").
... When she is in trouble, says "I sorry, Mommy" and she means it. Cute. Makes me melt.
... "So polite" ... she is proud of her manners when she remembers to say please and thank you.
... Singing "Rain, rain go away, come a day." Forgets a few lyrics, but the enthusiasm is not lacking. Sometimes combines Rain, Rain with "Row, row, row boat... May may may"
... Counting: "free, fibe, seben, nine, teh!"
9.04.2010
18 Months... Time Flies!
Lindsay is now 18.5 months. I'm wondering how and when this happened. She is in 18-24 size clothes, wears a size 5-6 shoe (one week she fit into her 3s and 4s, and the next week she had burst out of them!), and speaks in sentences. I don't know where my little baby went.
We are having so much fun with her--specifically in the area of trying to interpret and translate her jibber jabber.
We spent the month of August on Lake Michigan with my family, and during that month away I noticed so many changes in Lindsay. She said her first 2-word sentence in early July (16.5 months) then by mid-August she was putting everything together.
One morning I woke up to hear her in her pack-n-play (in the vacation cottage) saying, "Daddy work. Daddy plane. Bye bye. Grandma Connie plane? Bye bye. Mommy and Lindsay plane? Noooo." She was having her own perfect little monologue. And she had all the details just right. Yes, daddy had in fact gone away on a plane to work, and Grandma had left to head back to Park City, and Lindsay and I weren't going anywhere.
And a couple of days ago Lindsay and I were having dinner at the table together while listening to Puccini's La Boheme on my computer, and she says, "Pretty music. Mommy's pretty music,"... which reminded her of "Mommy's pretty flowers" on the counter. I can't get enough! It's fun to see where her mind takes her with each new thought.
She is also very into counting (like her dad). Most things that are more than one are "two." And for colors, most things are "red" or "blue."
She loves swimming (and going under! She actually asks for more!), running around, trying to figure out how things work (like her mom!), and narrating her life. I can't wait to see how all this develops.
We are having so much fun with her--specifically in the area of trying to interpret and translate her jibber jabber.
We spent the month of August on Lake Michigan with my family, and during that month away I noticed so many changes in Lindsay. She said her first 2-word sentence in early July (16.5 months) then by mid-August she was putting everything together.
One morning I woke up to hear her in her pack-n-play (in the vacation cottage) saying, "Daddy work. Daddy plane. Bye bye. Grandma Connie plane? Bye bye. Mommy and Lindsay plane? Noooo." She was having her own perfect little monologue. And she had all the details just right. Yes, daddy had in fact gone away on a plane to work, and Grandma had left to head back to Park City, and Lindsay and I weren't going anywhere.
And a couple of days ago Lindsay and I were having dinner at the table together while listening to Puccini's La Boheme on my computer, and she says, "Pretty music. Mommy's pretty music,"... which reminded her of "Mommy's pretty flowers" on the counter. I can't get enough! It's fun to see where her mind takes her with each new thought.
She is also very into counting (like her dad). Most things that are more than one are "two." And for colors, most things are "red" or "blue."
She loves swimming (and going under! She actually asks for more!), running around, trying to figure out how things work (like her mom!), and narrating her life. I can't wait to see how all this develops.
8.01.2010
17 months
We recently moved on to two-word sentences ... "Mommy's water", "Lindsay's shoe", "More nanny (banana)", "More books", "Night night baby" ... and having a blast trying to figure out what Lindsay is saying all day. And she talks all day...
I made a little photo album including many of our relatives, and she can name almost all of them. She butchers some of their names -- for instance, Grandma Connie is "Hahn-hee."
She is getting into finger-play songs and imitating the hand motions. She especially likes the Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Wheels on the Bus.
She loves getting naked and splashing in the water -- and (believe it or not) getting dunked under in the pool! "More pool"...
She has started collecting things: rocks into a bucket, for example; and taking the lids off the empty tupperware containers and putting them back on. She is mastering her puzzles.
Her favorite personalities are Elmo and Dora (on the computer and the iPhone).
Will report back at 18 months!
I made a little photo album including many of our relatives, and she can name almost all of them. She butchers some of their names -- for instance, Grandma Connie is "Hahn-hee."
She is getting into finger-play songs and imitating the hand motions. She especially likes the Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Wheels on the Bus.
She loves getting naked and splashing in the water -- and (believe it or not) getting dunked under in the pool! "More pool"...
She has started collecting things: rocks into a bucket, for example; and taking the lids off the empty tupperware containers and putting them back on. She is mastering her puzzles.
Her favorite personalities are Elmo and Dora (on the computer and the iPhone).
Will report back at 18 months!

