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Baby
A story in two parts:
This morning, Paela found some plastic bowls and diligently dripped milk from her sippy cup into the bowls. She didn't get much into the bowls before she was observed, first by the cat and then by her mom. The cat licked up what she could before the mom had Paela clean up her mess.
Then, this evening, Wayne asked the kitty if she wanted milk. Paela immediately seized upon the idea and ran to her mom to ask for some milk. As soon as she had the sippy cup of milk in hand, she ran off. To drink it? No, she ran back to the cat. And held it under her nose.
Who knew she had figured out so quickly that the cat likes milk too?
Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 18:07.
For a few weeks, I had noticed whenever Paela wants to hold my hand she would hold up her hand ready to grab mine (biggest clue) and say "nee?" (not so obvious clue). It took me awhile, but today I believe we've figured out how "nee" could possibly mean "hold hands" and not something in the middle of your leg. When Paela has to hold our hand (near a street or parking lot), we say "Paela, you need to hold our hand." And there it is. Apparently there are times in a young girl's life when her parents need to hold her hands, not the other way around.
Submitted by rebecca on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 17:58.
We went for a local walk (aka just around our apartment complex) and ventured on to the top floor. Wayne and I started a quick game of hide-and-seek with Paela, running ahead to jump behind the next corner. Paela shrieked with excitement. And a neighbor opened his door to ask if everything was alright, to make sure nothing was wrong.
When he saw a little girl, he laughed and went back inside. Maybe "little girl shriek" isn't a common thing on the third floor.
Submitted by rebecca on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 17:52.
We've tried to help Paela transition between activities lately (read: without throwing herself on the ground in frustration). One thing that works pretty well is encouraging her to "say bye-bye!" Now, in her independent play, I'll overhear Paela saying "bye-bye kitty" as she leaves the cat (or whatever) to find something else to do. Sometimes she'll throw in a blown kiss for good measure.
Submitted by wayne on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 10:53.
Paela carried her doll around a lot yesterday. At one point she and the doll sat down together and we heard giggling. As we looked her direction, we saw her poking her tummy over and over with the doll's hand. With each poke she would say "ticka, ticka, ticka!", and giggle like crazy.
Apparently she's already learned how little girls should tickle their mom.
Submitted by wayne on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 07:51.
Submitted by wayne on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 11:09.
Some of you may know we've been signing for Paela since she was born. We don't know a lot of sign language, but what we had read assured us that babies know even less; that even "baby talk" sign language would be picked up by our child. And so we tried it, signing "milk" and "more" whenever we fed her from newborn age on.
Wayne can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was around 8-9 months that we finally thought she could understand what we were signing to her. We would do the sign while saying the word, so it is hard to know for sure whether it was the vocal or visual cue that clued her in. She started doing the "up" sign around then, when she wanted to be taken out of her high chair after eating. We were excited and were sure more signs would soon follow. We were wrong.
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Submitted by rebecca on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 10:15.
Paela puts a fish on my finger. She likes to play this game a lot.
Submitted by wayne on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:10.
- 36 sec
- 528 plays
- 166 downloads
Obligatory cake and ice cream feeding. She eats it, just like everything else we give to our human vacuum cleaner.
Submitted by wayne on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:09.
- 43 sec
- 435 plays
- 151 downloads
Wait, so you're not supposed to hit your child on their birthday? D'oh!
Submitted by wayne on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:07.
