And what not to wear:
If she's looking grumpy it may have something to do with 8 new teeth breaking through all at once.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
What to wear
I love this hat so much that I'm thinking about making one for Adam to match his new coat. It's just a fleece-lined knitted square pocket with pompoms on each corner. I got this one for Naomi at Joe Fresh.
And what not to wear:
If she's looking grumpy it may have something to do with 8 new teeth breaking through all at once.
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And what not to wear:
If she's looking grumpy it may have something to do with 8 new teeth breaking through all at once.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Talking
UPDATE: I saved this as a draft many moons ago but forgot to publish. That 18-month verbal explosion I mentioned seems to be in effect now, at 20 months. She's putting two words together regularly and said three new words just at dinner the other night: empty, track (as in train track), and mine (ugh). And last night she told Adam: "Naomi turn" when he was hogging a toy.
Alrighty, let's get this down before the 18-month verbal explosion happens and the expressive vocabulary list becomes uncountably long. It's just for the record, i.e., boring. Words with an asterisk may not be intelligible to strangers but they are clear and consistent. Does not include words where she is merely repeating sounds from a poem or song.
food/kitchen: eat/food (uhmmm), bib, bowl, milk, open*, more, maht-maht (7)
animals: dog*, cat*, ladybug*, bird, duck*, bear, moo, baa, bow wow, meow, quack* (11)
people: Adam, baby, Daddy, Mummy, Poh-Poh*, David*, boy* (7)
bodies/bath: eye, belly button*, diaper*, bath, bubbles (5)
toys/entertainment: baby (doll/only counts once), book, ball, keys*, beep-beep, music*, computer* (6)
other nouns: boots, button, moon (3)
numerals: 9 (1)
exclamations: yep, hi, bye bye, 'night-'night, more (only counts once) (4)
particles: up, down, back, this*, that* (5)
Total: 45 English, 2 Cantonese.
Alrighty, let's get this down before the 18-month verbal explosion happens and the expressive vocabulary list becomes uncountably long. It's just for the record, i.e., boring. Words with an asterisk may not be intelligible to strangers but they are clear and consistent. Does not include words where she is merely repeating sounds from a poem or song.
food/kitchen: eat/food (uhmmm), bib, bowl, milk, open*, more, maht-maht (7)
animals: dog*, cat*, ladybug*, bird, duck*, bear, moo, baa, bow wow, meow, quack* (11)
people: Adam, baby, Daddy, Mummy, Poh-Poh*, David*, boy* (7)
bodies/bath: eye, belly button*, diaper*, bath, bubbles (5)
toys/entertainment: baby (doll/only counts once), book, ball, keys*, beep-beep, music*, computer* (6)
other nouns: boots, button, moon (3)
numerals: 9 (1)
exclamations: yep, hi, bye bye, 'night-'night, more (only counts once) (4)
particles: up, down, back, this*, that* (5)
Total: 45 English, 2 Cantonese.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Preschool Room "Graduation"
This is from back in September when Adam was moved out of the preschool room and into the "kinder" room. Only some of the kids in the kinder room actually attend JK (half time in the afternoon, as Adam will next year, too.)
Monday, November 01, 2010
Hallowe'en Story
I guess this is as good a time as any to record this story for posterity. It is not a good story by any objective measure but it is useful. Sometimes when Adam has completely lost it but he's receptive to a little help for collecting himself, I tell him this story to soothe, comfort, or pacify him. It has worked for months now. Only occasionally do I need to repeat it or pull out "The Montreal Story" for the effect to be complete.
"When I was a girl, my favourite holiday was .. Hallowe'en. There were three things that I reeeeeally liked about Hallowe'en. The first thing I really liked about Hallowe'en was making a costume. One year, I had a Queen costume. The same year I had a Queen constume, Uncle Ian had a Mummy costume - the type of Mummy with bandages from head to toe. Another thing that I really liked about Hallowe'en was trick-or-treating. I would always trick-or-treat with Uncle Ian. We'd go from door to door and knock on the door. And when someone answered the door, we'd say, "Trick or Treat!" Then usually, the person who answered the door would give us CANDY. We'd always say thank you for the candy. The third thing that I reeeeally liked about Hallowe'en was ... Eating All The Candy! The End."
Sometimes, if you ask Adam to tell you a story, he'll make a variation on this one, which is pretty darn cute, I think. That or he'll tell a story based loosely on Dion's story of visiting Chihung Szeto.
Another result of this story was that Adam got it in his head that (or rather just like saying that) he and Clare were going to go trick-or-treating by themselves and the Rob, Becky, Dion, and I were going to stay home to hand out candy. And what was Naomi going to do? Uhmm. Sleep. Naomi was going to be sleeping. He wasn't serious about this plan - he doesn't even like to go down the hall from our apartment to greet people at the elevator by himself - but he did enjoy sharing his plan.
If you're starting with this post, keep scrolling down, I've posted several more times tonight.
"When I was a girl, my favourite holiday was .. Hallowe'en. There were three things that I reeeeeally liked about Hallowe'en. The first thing I really liked about Hallowe'en was making a costume. One year, I had a Queen costume. The same year I had a Queen constume, Uncle Ian had a Mummy costume - the type of Mummy with bandages from head to toe. Another thing that I really liked about Hallowe'en was trick-or-treating. I would always trick-or-treat with Uncle Ian. We'd go from door to door and knock on the door. And when someone answered the door, we'd say, "Trick or Treat!" Then usually, the person who answered the door would give us CANDY. We'd always say thank you for the candy. The third thing that I reeeeally liked about Hallowe'en was ... Eating All The Candy! The End."
Sometimes, if you ask Adam to tell you a story, he'll make a variation on this one, which is pretty darn cute, I think. That or he'll tell a story based loosely on Dion's story of visiting Chihung Szeto.
Another result of this story was that Adam got it in his head that (or rather just like saying that) he and Clare were going to go trick-or-treating by themselves and the Rob, Becky, Dion, and I were going to stay home to hand out candy. And what was Naomi going to do? Uhmm. Sleep. Naomi was going to be sleeping. He wasn't serious about this plan - he doesn't even like to go down the hall from our apartment to greet people at the elevator by himself - but he did enjoy sharing his plan.
If you're starting with this post, keep scrolling down, I've posted several more times tonight.
Enjoying the Spoils, Day 2 - Adam
I think Rockets and Smarties are Adam's favourites, so far,
uhmmmm ...
diamonds
and uhmmmm ...
hexagons!
Or y'know. just EATING!
Enjoying the Spoils, Day 2 - Naomi
Yummy!
Cutie-Pie!
But harder work than I bargained for.
Washing it down with milk from the Hallowe'en themed cup.
Nice Mullet, kid.
LOL
Halloween Pics Part I
L - R: Giraffe (thx, Hos), Norwegian Olympic Curler (thx, D), Winnie the Pooh (thx, Pohpoh & Gungung). Photo credit Dion.
I took lots of photos today and yesterday. But I'm getting tired, so this might be it for the night.
Shoes!
Naomi loves shoes. Since before she turned one she's been capable of throwing a fit over my choice of shoes for her or myself! She's got a thing for shoes and she can walk in just about anything. Never mind the lack of pants. That happens now and then.
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