which, from among the many shots from this "roll," to blog. Here are a few.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
I could hardly choose ...
I would title this ....
"The Difference Between Moms and Dads" were it not that I am responsible for half of the ridiculousness in this photo.
Naomi's positioning on the counter - that's all Dion's doing. He had her while making dinner after our soak in the whirlpool. Meanwhile, I was showering and dressing Adam. So that "outfit" - that's all my doing. Furthermore, we don't normally keep rattles on our kitchen counter. Adam brought them for Naomi.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
cottage - kids on the beach
l-r: Adam, Nathan, Sophia, Clare
Clare. my favourite subject for the week. I got so many great shots of her.
Sophia. adored by Adam. She gets that Greek goddess thing from her mother.
Naomi. What? You can't tell she's on the beach? Well, yes, that is her car seat. I didn't really think she'd want onesies full of sand.
Nathan. hard to capture that fabulous grin on "film." He's just too lively and busy.
Adam. just Adam.
much better
before
after
I finally got around to cutting Adam's hair. I only retouched the bottom since his last haircut from the barber was a really short crew cut. This look required about 8 Hersey's kisses and 3 viewings of "Thomas and the Birthday Mail."
I need to find a new Thomas episode on Youtube. That one - really sexist. "Rosie isn't very strong but she's still really useful."
Check Up
Naomi had her 2-month check up yesterday. A clean bill of health but she just played around with her rotavirus vaccine rather than swallowing much of it. $80 well-spent (by Manulife)?
*Our paed measured her at 19.75" (63%ile).
FTR, there was an error in Adam's last checkup update. He was 38", not 36", in case you were confused.
| age | WEIGHT | HEIGHT | |||
| mos | lb,oz | %ile | in | %ile | |
| 0 | 7,1 | 34 | 20.0* | 72 | |
| 1 | 9,12 | 47 | |||
| 2 | 12,10 | 77 | 22.5 | 34 | |
FTR, there was an error in Adam's last checkup update. He was 38", not 36", in case you were confused.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Smile!
Naomi started smiling last week (almost 6 weeks) but she has really turned it up a notch this week. I gotta say that she really looks like me here but it's a little deceiving - those "freckles" are actually baby acne that's just healing up. I did retouch the photos but not for her. I removed the dirt from the floor :P
Naomi's Christening and 1st Visit to Ottawa
Naomi had her baptism on Sunday. Here we are with her in the Paterson ancestral christening gown.
Every stitch of it, including the lace trim was handmade by her greatgreatgreatgrandmother. She's the fourth generation of Margaret to be christened in that gown at what is now Centretown United Church. Adam, my brother, maternal cousins, and I also wore it for our christenings at the same church.
Adam missed the actual service since we couldn't convince him of the importance of whispering. I'll bet he and Auntie Jean had a good time in the nursery, though. Naomi was angelic. She only woke up to greet the congregation on her walkabout with Rev. Hewlett and even then she didn't so much as squeek.
We had a really lovely visit in Ottawa. Unfortunately, I had my hands so full that I didn't take many pictures. Dion returned to T.O. on Sunday but the kids and I stayed until Wednesday.
The car rides to and from weren't even too bad - only two stops each way, and despite Adam's inability to sleep in the car. He didn't sleep at all on the way there and slept for only about 30 or 40 minutes on the way home.
As always, I left wanting more. But I plan to be back at the beginning of October for Kiefer's (son of Doug and Melanie) baptism.
Every stitch of it, including the lace trim was handmade by her greatgreatgreatgrandmother. She's the fourth generation of Margaret to be christened in that gown at what is now Centretown United Church. Adam, my brother, maternal cousins, and I also wore it for our christenings at the same church.
Adam missed the actual service since we couldn't convince him of the importance of whispering. I'll bet he and Auntie Jean had a good time in the nursery, though. Naomi was angelic. She only woke up to greet the congregation on her walkabout with Rev. Hewlett and even then she didn't so much as squeek.
We had a really lovely visit in Ottawa. Unfortunately, I had my hands so full that I didn't take many pictures. Dion returned to T.O. on Sunday but the kids and I stayed until Wednesday.
The car rides to and from weren't even too bad - only two stops each way, and despite Adam's inability to sleep in the car. He didn't sleep at all on the way there and slept for only about 30 or 40 minutes on the way home.As always, I left wanting more. But I plan to be back at the beginning of October for Kiefer's (son of Doug and Melanie) baptism.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Adam - stuff Part 2
How about for this one, I cover Adam's speech and language development? I could say a lot because, well, he can say a lot. My memory is fuzzy on a lot of things but here are a few things I do remember. I'm sorry dear readers, this is much like the 16-month edition when I counted up his vocabulary, just for the record, not for your entertainment. I will try to cover most social stuff (negotiating) in another post.
around 19 months (last November)
- "I hungry. Mommy, get yoghurt, please."
- can recite Jack and Jill correctly, including the lesser known "Up Jack got..." verse
- can recognise each letter of the upper-case alphabet
around 20 months (last Christmas)
- can "sing" Jingle Bells entirely, though sometimes loses his place
around 22 months
- knows his full name, age, address, and city
around 23 months
- working on if/then, when/then, cause/effect constructs, e.g., "When you press the black button, it makes the green light go on." I remember that sentence specifically because I was blown away with how long it was.
around 24 months
- At Adam's check up, the paediatrician asked if Adam is "putting two words together." Uh, yeah, you could say that. Paragraphs.
- can count to 29 (just say the words)
- usually recognises written numbers up to 29, guesses well at higher numbers
nowadays, 2 and a quarter years and other stuff I can't date
- perfecting the cause/effect constructs, especially how and why/because, often in reference to household rules. "Mommy took it away because you threw it." "Why is Naomi crying? Because she wants a hug."
- can reliably count about 4 objects, sometimes higher
- knows "which letter is for ... " dozens of people and objects
- knows the words for the days of the week but doesn't grasp their meaning
- says Cantonese words for stinky, come on, terrible, 1, 2, and 3 (others?)
- will guess at just about any question asked, rather than answer, "I don't know." I've never heard him say "I don't know."
- uses past, present, and future tenses. He's probably been doing this for a while but I never noted exactly when. Sounds a little ESL by misapplying various tenses. E.g., (on the way to the pool,) "We are going to go do some getting wet."
rehearsal
Except for a week or so while he was practising escaping his crib, Adam has for the past year (at least) babbled, chatted, and sung himself to sleep. Naptime typically ranges from 10 to 30 minutes of chatter but bedtime is rarely less than 20 minutes, usually an hour to two hours.
music
Adam rarely sings along with people or recordings. He sings by himself or lip-synchs. Don't take it personally if Adam tells you, "You (I) don't like singing/dancing." It's not a judgement of your voice or skill, clearly since he'll tell Dion to stop while I am singing. He's focussing and you're distracting him. His own singing is rarely pitched but often appropriately inflected.
idiosyncratic use of pronouns
Adam has for months and months been referring to himself in the second person, i.e., saying you/your/yours when he means I/me/my/mine. Which makes perfect sense because we call him "you" all the time. I don't remember when he started doing this because way back before Christmas, he was using "Adam" or "I" correctly. In the mean time, every now and then, he does use the first person correctly but it is always a clearly concerted effort. I try to praise it effusively but it's not sticking just yet.
testing rules and asserting himself verbally
One of the advantages of a very verbal 2 year old is that he can test rules with words rather than by breaking them - or our stuff or himself. We often have conversations like:
A: "That is soft."
me: "No, that is hard."
A: "It is not soft. You cannot throw it. You can only throw it outside. If you throw it inside, Mommy with take it away and you will not be able to have it."
One of the disadvantages is that Adam can test ten rules with words in the time that he'd be able to test two physically. Which means he hears "no" (or a euphemism for it) five times as often.
Another advantage is that we also avoid some unnecessary conflicts because he really is able to say what he likes and wants. Plus, talking is soothing for him, not frustrating for him, so talking it out is a good temper-control strategy.
Ehng. I'm all talked out.
around 19 months (last November)
- "I hungry. Mommy, get yoghurt, please."
- can recite Jack and Jill correctly, including the lesser known "Up Jack got..." verse
- can recognise each letter of the upper-case alphabet
around 20 months (last Christmas)
- can "sing" Jingle Bells entirely, though sometimes loses his place
around 22 months
- knows his full name, age, address, and city
around 23 months
- working on if/then, when/then, cause/effect constructs, e.g., "When you press the black button, it makes the green light go on." I remember that sentence specifically because I was blown away with how long it was.
around 24 months
- At Adam's check up, the paediatrician asked if Adam is "putting two words together." Uh, yeah, you could say that. Paragraphs.
- can count to 29 (just say the words)
- usually recognises written numbers up to 29, guesses well at higher numbers
nowadays, 2 and a quarter years and other stuff I can't date
- perfecting the cause/effect constructs, especially how and why/because, often in reference to household rules. "Mommy took it away because you threw it." "Why is Naomi crying? Because she wants a hug."
- can reliably count about 4 objects, sometimes higher
- knows "which letter is for ... " dozens of people and objects
- knows the words for the days of the week but doesn't grasp their meaning
- says Cantonese words for stinky, come on, terrible, 1, 2, and 3 (others?)
- will guess at just about any question asked, rather than answer, "I don't know." I've never heard him say "I don't know."
- uses past, present, and future tenses. He's probably been doing this for a while but I never noted exactly when. Sounds a little ESL by misapplying various tenses. E.g., (on the way to the pool,) "We are going to go do some getting wet."
rehearsal
Except for a week or so while he was practising escaping his crib, Adam has for the past year (at least) babbled, chatted, and sung himself to sleep. Naptime typically ranges from 10 to 30 minutes of chatter but bedtime is rarely less than 20 minutes, usually an hour to two hours.
music
Adam rarely sings along with people or recordings. He sings by himself or lip-synchs. Don't take it personally if Adam tells you, "You (I) don't like
idiosyncratic use of pronouns
Adam has for months and months been referring to himself in the second person, i.e., saying you/your/yours when he means I/me/my/mine. Which makes perfect sense because we call him "you" all the time. I don't remember when he started doing this because way back before Christmas, he was using "Adam" or "I" correctly. In the mean time, every now and then, he does use the first person correctly but it is always a clearly concerted effort. I try to praise it effusively but it's not sticking just yet.
testing rules and asserting himself verbally
One of the advantages of a very verbal 2 year old is that he can test rules with words rather than by breaking them - or our stuff or himself. We often have conversations like:
A: "That is soft."
me: "No, that is hard."
A: "It is not soft. You cannot throw it. You can only throw it outside. If you throw it inside, Mommy with take it away and you will not be able to have it."
One of the disadvantages is that Adam can test ten rules with words in the time that he'd be able to test two physically. Which means he hears "no" (or a euphemism for it) five times as often.
Another advantage is that we also avoid some unnecessary conflicts because he really is able to say what he likes and wants. Plus, talking is soothing for him, not frustrating for him, so talking it out is a good temper-control strategy.
Ehng. I'm all talked out.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Naomi - 3 weeks old
It goes by so much faster the second time. I can't believe how big and strong Naomi is ALREADY.
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