Update: Calvin
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dweniusOooooh, brains.
He has started forming simple sentences. "Hello papa!" when I come home from work [melty], "Hug Jake?" or similar, and this weekend, in response to "Go see Papa", he comes toddling into the bedroom saying "Go see you!", flapping his arms around while grinning.
He wants to be read to! This is new. He goes out to the living room and makes a whiny noise to get your attention. When you enter the room, he says "Chair?" and scootches over to make room on the big comfy chair for you. When you sit down, he get's all excited, jumps down, runs over to his bookshelf and grabs a book or two. For most books (Guess How Much I Love You or Whistle for Willie or The Monster at the End of This Book) he mostly wants to flip around the pages, or shut the book suddenly and say "End!"
But but but! More than half the time, if he grabs a single book, he grabs Goodnight Moon, and he will sit very patiently as I read it to him. Maybe it is something about the cadence? He won't do this with any other book. He points out objects he knows, and he always bends over to kiss the two kittens both times they are named.
This may turn into one of those rituals of endless repeat that drive parents batty, but for now, I am only too pleased to read this book to him over, and over, and over.
He has started forming simple sentences. "Hello papa!" when I come home from work [melty], "Hug Jake?" or similar, and this weekend, in response to "Go see Papa", he comes toddling into the bedroom saying "Go see you!", flapping his arms around while grinning.
He wants to be read to! This is new. He goes out to the living room and makes a whiny noise to get your attention. When you enter the room, he says "Chair?" and scootches over to make room on the big comfy chair for you. When you sit down, he get's all excited, jumps down, runs over to his bookshelf and grabs a book or two. For most books (Guess How Much I Love You or Whistle for Willie or The Monster at the End of This Book) he mostly wants to flip around the pages, or shut the book suddenly and say "End!"
But but but! More than half the time, if he grabs a single book, he grabs Goodnight Moon, and he will sit very patiently as I read it to him. Maybe it is something about the cadence? He won't do this with any other book. He points out objects he knows, and he always bends over to kiss the two kittens both times they are named.
This may turn into one of those rituals of endless repeat that drive parents batty, but for now, I am only too pleased to read this book to him over, and over, and over.
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Goodnight to the old lady, whispering "hush".
Date: 2005-02-24 06:45 am (UTC)In the great green room
There was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of
The cow jumping over the moon!
If he likes books with cadence...
Date: 2005-02-24 06:54 am (UTC)And so on, and so forth. I can still practically recite the entire book.
Good times!
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Date: 2005-02-24 02:25 pm (UTC)Betsy's faves
Date: 2005-02-24 02:58 pm (UTC)Random: Billy Crystal wrote a sendup of Guess How Much I Love You called (I think) Guess How Passive Agressive I Am that tickled my funny bone and completely destroyed an otherwise sweet book for me. The pictures are still pretty, but all I can see now is this anal oppressed parental type who can't let their kid win.
Karen
Re: Betsy's faves
Date: 2005-02-24 10:38 pm (UTC)My daughter has always approved of Fox in Socks. She insists that the tongue-twisters must be read as fast as possible, then laughs when I mess up. This is, I suppose, the literary equivalent of building a cool sandcastle just so that it can be DESTROYED.
Katy and the Big Snow is guaranteed to lull Katherine to sleep. Once it gets into its rhythm, she zones out and is asleep within moments. Very useful.
Re: Betsy's faves
Date: 2005-02-27 04:59 pm (UTC)