July 27, 2010 - Posted by Molly - Comments Off
I forgot to add one of her more surprising bits of knowledge.
She has a alphabet puzzle that Grandma and Grandpa Dahl gave her. Each letter has a picture underneath it (you pick up the Q, you see a quail). Her new game is to take all of the puzzle pieces and place them, one by one, on the matching letter (in the center, facing the same way) on her big alphabet mat on the floor. And woe to the person who tries to walk on the mat while she is doing this. When placing a piece herself, she carefully plots routes that won’t disturb already placed pieces. And she’ll walk carefully if she has to tread near a piece in place.
This mat also has the numbers zero through 9 at the bottom. The other day she was walking by the zero and she said ‘zero. nothing.’ I was impressed. Zero seems like a pretty tricky concept. But they do have counting/sorting work at school, where you place the appropriate number of ladybugs or sticks in the bin with a number on the bottom. So in the bin with a zero on the bottom, you wouldn’t put anything in. In the next bin with a 1 on the bottom, you’d put in one ladybug. And so on.
July 26, 2010 - Posted by Molly - Comments Off
Morgan can sing along to the ABCs song and will insert the next letter when you stall somewhere. She doesn’t sing it by herself from start to finish. But she will ask you for help singing it when she wants to sing….”Mommy help, ABCs” is a common request. (So is “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Stevie,” “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Stevie’s Mommy” (I have no idea where that come from), and “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Morgan”)
Morgan can count to 11 quickly and easily by herself. (And she is counting things that she is pointing to, not just reciting numbers). Usually after 11 she resets to 8.
She thinks about the stories we read her even when we aren’t reading (and haven’t been reading them in awhile). Her favorite story these days is Curious George Takes a Train (the first story in the Treasury of Curious George book John gave her). Occasionally she’ll break out with a ‘get down George!’ (George gets into trouble for messing with the departure board at a train station and the trainmaster yells at him. It is easy for a monkey to get into trouble. Also easy for a monkey to get out of trouble. And by the end of the story George is a hero). She’ll also say ‘easy trouble monkey’ and ‘George hero!’
She has moved on to 6 word sentences. And she narrates the drive home. “People walking. I hear noise. Beep beep! Help Mommy, ABCs!”
July 20, 2010 - Posted by Jim - Comments Off
Morgan figured out how to turn the radio on and off.
July 7, 2010 - Posted by Jim - Comments Off
Morgan turned 2! The 2-year checkup went well, Morgan didn’t even cry for the first shot.
Weight: 25lbs 6oz (35%)
Height: 35 3/4″ (90%)
Grandparents Dahl were in town for her birthday, and she had a reasonably familiar gala: Trip to the Baltimore Aquarium, cake (nothing with nuts!) at home, opening some gifts, and a trip to George’s. Also another birthday at school, this time in a much bigger class of two-year-olds, so everyone was able to participate in the party. She’s been saying “Morgan’s Birthday” ever since, so I think she’ll be on to us next year.
July 7, 2010 - Posted by Jim - Comments Off
Wow — I fell way behind on photos again. Here’s Morgan’s first trip to the neighborhood pool, Morgan blowing on her pizza to cool it down (the chef’s hat is because kids make their own pizzas at George’s!), and Father’s Day brunch at Crystal City Sports Pub.
July 6, 2010 - Posted by Molly - Comments Off
Morgan can (quickly) put her shoes on all by herself. She’s been working on learning how to put her Keen’s on for awhile (one velcro strap across the top). And she would eventually get it, but it would take awhile (in particular, pulling the shoe up over her heel). But she can now do it almost as quickly as I can. She can also put on pants and shorts by herself. I think she even gets the ‘tag in the back’ thing now, though it still helps her immensely if you kind of set her shorts up for her (so the waist and leg holes are lined up properly). She cannot yet take a shirt off or put on one, but she tries mightily.
Retelling a story Jim told me…apparently he was hanging out with her while she played with her shapes cube the other day. She picked up a triangle and said ‘circle.’ And then attempted to jam the triangle into the circle shaped hole. She then looked at the piece again and said “no. triangle. 3 sides.” and then put the triangle piece in the triangle shaped hole.
