Saturday, January 14, 2012
Miya has been bumped up to Keyboard class at music. She enjoyed it tremendously much and has been busy the whole day practicing and telling me about the music and so on. She is even going around making “DO-RE-ME” kind of songs….. Um yes. Okay. Well…. here we go – ROCK ON!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Leia is amazing. Really. I am speechless. Just a few things she’s done lately that I don’t think many other 20mnth old babes can do:
Under/over/through – she’s got all that down to the tee – tells us when she wants to go under something, over something or when pushing something through something else. Correct. All the time. Spacial awereness. Tick.
Writing/Drawing – her pencil grip is 100%. Perfect. And she shows exact and complete control over her drawing/writing. She will make the smallest most intricate little scribbles and large, open and free flowing pictures. She loves her “little” writings the best though. Amazing concentration when she does it.
Talking and sequencing. Mimics EVERYTHING, but even better, uses it immediately in the correct sense and from then forward knows what a new word means and can re-use it. Picking up vocab at an astounding rate. Follows multi-part directions, e.g. Please go to the room, find Miya and tell her to come eat her berries…. She’d walk to Miya’s room and I’d hear: “Come Sussa. Eat. Berries. There.” … Also GIVES instructions – “Mommy. Fetch food there. Leia sit here.” (meaning I had to go fetch her food from her little table to come put it by our big table where she was sitting because she wanted to eat with us.). AND THEN without prompting, when I did it: “Thank you, Mommy!”
Around and around. Not sure what she was talking about that went around and around this afternoon, but she had her whole arm and hand waving in circles to illustrate that whatever it was was going around and around while saying “round and round”
And so on and so forth…..
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Um… so Leia threw a bit of a temper tantrum today. No, sorry, that is a gross understatement. She morphed into an angry monstrous thing with hands and feet and teeth and head flying in all directions, all aimed at me and trying to inflict maximum harm.
I blame myself. I thought I’d take them playing FIRST this morning and then get some shopping done afterwards. Okay, seriously – what the HECK was I thinking?! Leia got angry for something small – I honestly forget what it was, I think it might have been a few small things – and then, unlike normally where she’d whine or even give a shrill shout or two and calm down, she got MADDER and MADDER and MADDER.
It was really hectic. I have not in my life seen any of my children get that upset before. Never. Ever.
When I finally made it to the relative safety (from scrutinising looks) of my car, I thought I’d have to rush her to the hospital – it looked like she was having a fit. Literally. She was rocking back and forward as if she was trying to break free from the car straps with brute force, she still kept on swinging at me and her eyes – oh my word…. She even got so intense that she gurgled – not growl – gurgled!
Managed to get home and after administering a few drops of Rescue Remedy, I let her loose to scream and cry and shout and hit a bit. I’ve even got some teeth marks on my shoulder to prove just how violently angry she was.
Finally she let me cradle her and I just held her and stroked her hair and she fell asleep, sniffling and giving a half-hearted kick every now and then.
Sigh of relief.
After about an hour’s nap, she woke up slightly grumpy, but after having a nice lunch, she was a happy, smiling, sweet angel again.
Going to keep the Rescue with me in future – just in case….
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
After having a handful of berries (I *SO* love fresh berry season – the girls have berries all day long!), Miya said “You know, this is so delicious, it’s like the berries are having a game in my mouth.”
Today, after Ricky got angry with Leia and told her firmly “No! Do not mess inside.”, Miya piped up and said: “No Daddy. You know if you talk like that to Leia it is how she will talk to her children one day.”
Um. Okay. Reproached.
Today at Leia’s music class, I told Teacher Cherise that Miya had composed her own song (s) over December and that she played Twinkle Twinkle on her new keyboard by ear. She was so impressed that she asked if we wanted to move Miiya to a keyboard class…. Wow!
Of course, we’ll first go see a class or two and leave it up to Miya to decide which class she wants to be in, but in my mind, I think she’s absolutely ready to move on!
Especially after tonight… she started running through the house making up a silly song and singing “na na na” all the time and inbetween every little verse she made up. It was something about running through the house with her sister following her and how much fun they were having and giggling… and of course, Leia was running after her singing and making noise too! BUT the amazing thing was that in mid song, Miya said “Hey Mom! Actually, I can play this song on my keyboard. Listen it goes “na na na” which is “do re me”…. Um Yeah!
Always loving water, and swimming and splashing, Leia took it one step further today by telling me “Mommy! Ready. Seck. (set)…” and then jumping from the first step, head down into the water and doing a bit of a butterfly type stroke to me. She loved it so very much that she just kept on and kept on and kept on. Oh, and of course, EVERYONE had to look. She even told Eujean, who was walking past to “Sit there” and she had great fun showing off.
Thankfully she still showed some apprehension to just go ahead and jump in when I was not close to her.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
What a fantastic day! Miya and Rick went off Geocaching for their special date day and Leia and I just spent some one-on-one time together – playing, tickling and general rough housing on the bed, building puzzles, drawing pictures and pasting pictures. And then for our lunch out, we went to MSquared for pizza – only to find that it was also Rick and Miya’s idea to have lunch there! But we still went for our own table. A date is a date! What a wonderful idea this has been!
Leia recognised a nursery character today… And although I read the typical rhymes now and then, they don’t really feature. What brought the connection was Miyas cardboard dress-up doll – a pretty little girl called Mary- and one of her dresses was a Mary-had-a-little-lamb costume. Miya had been playing with her doll for two days now and Leia immediately made the connection w hen she pages through a nursery rhyme book and found a pretty girl with a lamb… “Ma-wee!” She shouted happily.
Besides my 20 month old being fully potty trained and dry at night (thanks to EC – elimination communication), she also tends to her toilet needs independantly at home!! Yes, of course I still help with teh wipingand I wash extra well at bathtime, but generally she’s got the hang of teh whole thing! The other day seh problemsolved by herself – when she could not reach the toilet when she needed to go, she walked off to the outside, fetched the step (mini stepstool) from in front of the trampoline, walked back to the loo, positioned it in front of the toilet, pulled down her pants and panties, did her thing, rolled loo paper off (and not too much, mind you – just a perfect wad), wiped, jumped off the steop, flusehd and thencalled me to help her with her clothes.
Awesome, hey!
