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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Horsing Around Photo Contest!
A mirror holds such fascination and imagination for toddlers. The discovery of oneself, the study of facial movements and characteristics. Simple though it may be, it is a land of unlimited imaginings and play all to itself.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Wordless Wednesday: A Peacock Chasing a Peacock.
Commmeeeere. . . let me pet you! 
Oh. So you're going to play the "I can fly and you aren't even as tall as the fence" card, eh? 
I wonder what would happen if I walked underneath you? 
On second thought, you're bigger than I thought. 
Can't you tell that I just wanted to be friends??? 
We'll go feed some birds that APPRECIATE us. 
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Oh. So you're going to play the "I can fly and you aren't even as tall as the fence" card, eh? 
I wonder what would happen if I walked underneath you? 
On second thought, you're bigger than I thought. 
Can't you tell that I just wanted to be friends??? 
We'll go feed some birds that APPRECIATE us. 
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Monday, January 26, 2009
A Few Ali Notes
So here are a few completely random things that have been going on with Ali lately:
Last week was a week of firsts for her: She started sitting on the potty for the first time (before this week, she has very opinionatedly told me "no thank you, uh uh, all done potty" anytime I have asked her if she wanted to sit on it), she sang for the first time (another thing that she has been diametrically opposed to. Her first song lyrics ever were "rock a-bye baby, in a treetop, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock". Luckily she left out the violent, gory parts of that song), and she "rode" on a tricycle for the first time (which she LOVED).
So I am making a commitment to NOT blog about potty training, unless something funny-and-not-related-gorily-to-the-actual-potty-using happens.The following story falls under that exception:
The very first time she sat on the potty, we didn't have a little one yet because, as I said, this was the first time she agreed to sit. So she was sitting on the regular potty, holding both my hands. She started repeating over and over very matter-of-factly, "It happens. It happens. It happens.". I couldn't help but be amused by the closeness of her speech to another phrase that is similar and related to what she was attempting to do. But I still had no idea what she was talking about happens, until she said, "falling. It happens".
She was scared of falling in, but giving herself a pep-talk that "it happens"!
In the past couple of weeks, she has finalized speaking in full sentences. It is so adorable and big-girlish. She uses all of the articles of speech. However, she does still have all of her pronouns mixed up, and calls herself "you" and "your".
Now that she has more of a basis for vocabulary, she is starting to come up with things on her own that are just too funny.
Such as. . .
Chris occasionally uses Q-tips to clean out Ali's nose. Which of course she hates.
The other day, she found one and handed it to me and said, "Mommy, hold your bogey fingy (thingy)".
I answered, "sure, honey, I will hold the Q-TIP."
She mumbled back at me under her breath, "BOGEY FINGY".
Last week was a week of firsts for her: She started sitting on the potty for the first time (before this week, she has very opinionatedly told me "no thank you, uh uh, all done potty" anytime I have asked her if she wanted to sit on it), she sang for the first time (another thing that she has been diametrically opposed to. Her first song lyrics ever were "rock a-bye baby, in a treetop, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock". Luckily she left out the violent, gory parts of that song), and she "rode" on a tricycle for the first time (which she LOVED).
So I am making a commitment to NOT blog about potty training, unless something funny-and-not-related-gorily-to-the-actual-potty-using happens.The following story falls under that exception:
The very first time she sat on the potty, we didn't have a little one yet because, as I said, this was the first time she agreed to sit. So she was sitting on the regular potty, holding both my hands. She started repeating over and over very matter-of-factly, "It happens. It happens. It happens.". I couldn't help but be amused by the closeness of her speech to another phrase that is similar and related to what she was attempting to do. But I still had no idea what she was talking about happens, until she said, "falling. It happens".
She was scared of falling in, but giving herself a pep-talk that "it happens"!
In the past couple of weeks, she has finalized speaking in full sentences. It is so adorable and big-girlish. She uses all of the articles of speech. However, she does still have all of her pronouns mixed up, and calls herself "you" and "your".
Now that she has more of a basis for vocabulary, she is starting to come up with things on her own that are just too funny.
Such as. . .
Chris occasionally uses Q-tips to clean out Ali's nose. Which of course she hates.
The other day, she found one and handed it to me and said, "Mommy, hold your bogey fingy (thingy)".
I answered, "sure, honey, I will hold the Q-TIP."
She mumbled back at me under her breath, "BOGEY FINGY".
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Adventures in the Bible
I tried something a couple of weeks ago with Ali, and it was one of those moments where you are shocked by the immediate success of your idea. You know the type?
I decided to start taking her to my bed for reading time rather than sitting in the chair in her room. She loved it from the very beginning. It lengthened our reading time, and she became much more interactive.
So along with me reading to her, she has decided that she likes to read some as well. She especially likes to read her bible.
We have been all the way through her children's bible only three times. But amazingly enough, she has memorized the basic story idea that goes along with a bunch of the pictures.
She knows who characters are across stories - for example, she can recognize Peter in any picture that he is in.
She will turn to a picture and say "Angel helping Peter", or "David and Jonathan", or "John baptizing Jesus", or "Pouring water into wine".
She also has started trying to use her biblical knowledge in every day life. I heard her muttering while we were at the mall the other day, so I walked up closer to her to hear what she was saying. She was repeating over and over, "Ali baptizing Mommy. Ali baptizing Mommy."
However, my all-time favorite Ali-commentary is on the picture of the baby that the two women were fighting over and Solomon suggested cutting the baby in half to determine his real mother. (Remember, I told you that this bible has no concept of softening the stories to prevent nightmares).
Anyway, Ali luckily doesn't grasp the concept of the story, but what she does see is a baby crying.
So the first thing she does is try to give the baby her paci (she only gets her paci for bedtime and naptime, but I let her keep it during storytime).
However, the baby is still crying after receiving the paci, so she turns to me and tells me, "Mommy, baby crying. Give baby Tylenol!!".
I decided to start taking her to my bed for reading time rather than sitting in the chair in her room. She loved it from the very beginning. It lengthened our reading time, and she became much more interactive.
So along with me reading to her, she has decided that she likes to read some as well. She especially likes to read her bible.
We have been all the way through her children's bible only three times. But amazingly enough, she has memorized the basic story idea that goes along with a bunch of the pictures.
She knows who characters are across stories - for example, she can recognize Peter in any picture that he is in.
She will turn to a picture and say "Angel helping Peter", or "David and Jonathan", or "John baptizing Jesus", or "Pouring water into wine".
She also has started trying to use her biblical knowledge in every day life. I heard her muttering while we were at the mall the other day, so I walked up closer to her to hear what she was saying. She was repeating over and over, "Ali baptizing Mommy. Ali baptizing Mommy."
However, my all-time favorite Ali-commentary is on the picture of the baby that the two women were fighting over and Solomon suggested cutting the baby in half to determine his real mother. (Remember, I told you that this bible has no concept of softening the stories to prevent nightmares).
Anyway, Ali luckily doesn't grasp the concept of the story, but what she does see is a baby crying.
So the first thing she does is try to give the baby her paci (she only gets her paci for bedtime and naptime, but I let her keep it during storytime).
However, the baby is still crying after receiving the paci, so she turns to me and tells me, "Mommy, baby crying. Give baby Tylenol!!".
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Wordless Wednesday.
There's nothing that slows kids down from running screaming laps around the house than to pull out a book:
Ali's favorite mall toy. She asked to put "pennies in it". I knew she wouldn't like it, but I decided to give her the chance:
"What?!? Why's it shakin?!?"
Holdin' on for dear life. . .
That was rough. New favorite mall toy!
And a musical genious. Or at least she has that genius-wild-hair-thing going for her.
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Ali's favorite mall toy. She asked to put "pennies in it". I knew she wouldn't like it, but I decided to give her the chance:
"What?!? Why's it shakin?!?"
Holdin' on for dear life. . .
That was rough. New favorite mall toy!
And a musical genious. Or at least she has that genius-wild-hair-thing going for her.
Visit my other Wordless Wednesday post at my main site!Visit everyone else's at 5 Minutes for Mom!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sunday School
Ali got promoted to a new class at Church, and she LOVES it. We "bill" it as "Sunday School" -- not "Nursery" anymore!!!
So I've been asking her what she did in Sunday School.
On Sunday, I got the following answer:
Ali: Play Ring 'a rosies with AJ!
Me: What else did you do?
Ali: Play pocket posies with AJ!!
Me: What else did you do?
(silence)
On Tuesday, Kitty asked her about Sunday School.
Ali: Play Ring 'a rosies with AJ!
Kitty: What else did you do?
Ali: (girlish, dreamy sigh): Held hands with TITUS!!!!
So I've been asking her what she did in Sunday School.
On Sunday, I got the following answer:
Ali: Play Ring 'a rosies with AJ!
Me: What else did you do?
Ali: Play pocket posies with AJ!!
Me: What else did you do?
(silence)
On Tuesday, Kitty asked her about Sunday School.
Ali: Play Ring 'a rosies with AJ!
Kitty: What else did you do?
Ali: (girlish, dreamy sigh): Held hands with TITUS!!!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Wordless Wednesday: Sometimes it's best to stop at one.
At small group, we had a set of matching kiddos in PJ's. Of course they wanted their picture taken.
Take One: 75% of subjects smiled, 50% looked at camera. Not bad, but surely I can do better.
Take Two: 50% silly faces, 25% looking away from camera. Try again?
Take Three: Only 25% eye contact. 25% seems to be leaping from couch.
Take Four: Smallest subject seems to be pulling largest subject's hair. 50% are trying to figure out this phenomenon, when ironically, smallest subject is actually looking at the camera for the first time.
Take Five: Camerawoman gets bowled over as kids jump from the couch in a frenzy. Gives up. Take one it is.
Take One: 75% of subjects smiled, 50% looked at camera. Not bad, but surely I can do better.
Take Two: 50% silly faces, 25% looking away from camera. Try again?
Take Three: Only 25% eye contact. 25% seems to be leaping from couch.
Take Four: Smallest subject seems to be pulling largest subject's hair. 50% are trying to figure out this phenomenon, when ironically, smallest subject is actually looking at the camera for the first time.
Take Five: Camerawoman gets bowled over as kids jump from the couch in a frenzy. Gives up. Take one it is.
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