19.06.06 / Uncategorized / Author: admin
Her vocabulary grows every minute. Her latest antics include pointing to her eye when she upset and saying “I’m crying,” and saying ” I’m COUNTING” if you interrupt her while she’s reciting numbers. She also says things are “Cool” and sings! Her favorite songs are “The Barney Skin-a-ma-Rink song – but she says “GRANDMA LOVES YOU!” at the end which is adorable. She also loves Raffi songs thanks to my Dad, who patiently plays the Raffi DVD for her repeatedly. She also like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Itsy Bitsy Spider. Her favorite thing right now is swimming, she cant get enough “SCHWIMMING” – as she calls it. She is constantly on the lookout for water and tells me if she sees a pool, beach, river, or bathtub. She also likes playing in the rain with Rob. As soon as she sees rain or a sprinkler turn on she tell Rob “Umbrella!!!” She runs to the door and is ready to go! Potty training has begun without much success. She has a potty doll that she likes and a potty Elmo and she knows just what they are supposed to do. She doesn’t want to sit on the potty and sometimes acts afraid of it. She isn’t very impressed with her Big Girl Underpants and a bribe of M&M’s hasn’t worked. So far she’s peed on the floor much more than in the potty. Below is a pic of one of our potty sessions:
June 10th 2006,
I finally remembered to take out the other letters…. she was excited to have new ones to play with an now she knows the entire alphabet. She knows some of the lower case letters too. I haven’t actually counted how many yet though.
June 4th 2006,
Audrey was the flower girl in Mindy’s wedding and did a great job. She walked down the aisle and even lost a few flower petals along the way! Now Audrey has a new Uncle “FO-FO.” Still waiting on pictures…
I really think she might be exceptionally smart…and it’s not just because I’m her mother, I swear. For some reason this intelligence is attributed to Rob?!?! (Until he came along they thought I was smart! ) 😛
Starting at the end of May we overheard her identify and say the letters A-X-P and U on several occasions. I only had out about 10 of her magnetic alphabet letters because I didn’t want to overwhelm her. Now she knows every letter very consistently (yes, out of order) with the exceptions of W, M, N, L and V. She also recognizes and can spell her name and identifies all her numbers 1-10 and can sometimes identify 11 and 12. She counts things almost obsessively using 1 to 1 correspondence and tells you the color of anything you ask her…(now having mastered colors like brown, grey, pink and white.) These are abilities of the average 3 1/2 year old (42 months) and she’s only two (25 months)!?!?!
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