Wednesday, March 29, 2006
What's goin' down
- Walking a lot, but not quite on her own. Tuesday, the Bean moved from walking with two hands of adults to one hand. Any day now, she's stroll off, unaided.
- Some sign language, like for milk and banana.
- Nicola swears she said "thank you" yesterday.
- Identifying things in books, like pointing to an apple if you say "which is one is the apple?"
- Copying actions -- like picking up a doll and rocking it in her arms, then putting the baby on her shoulder and patting it gently...just like we do with her! Lindsay did this with me Monday in the playroom, picking up a little doll over and over again as I said "rock the baby." Damn, that was cute at its cutest, let me tell ya.
What a great age -- full of wonder and discovery and milestones. I say this now, and I know I said it over and over again with Ella as she grew up. Heck, I say it now about her at the age of six. Each age, or stage, reveals a bit more of the mysteries hidden inside your kids -- their personality, sense of humor, likes and dislikes, how they laugh, what makes them proud, how they make friends, introvert or extrovert, etc. The layers peel away as the months pile up, and next thing you know, you find yourself explaining to your 6-year-old why you just confessed (while making a joke to adult dinner companions) to drinking as a freshman in college when you weren't of legal age (that was some corner Ella backed me into!). God help me in about eight years!
Lindsay loves to swing, and hates getting off the swing. That's one of her new things too -- expressing intentional disagreement with the path chosen by one of her parents.
