Tidbits about Sophie:
I told her to put her food (some carrot from a stew) in her mouth, and she tried asking if she could put it in various other body parts ("shoulder? ear? cheek? nose?") before finally agreeing to eat it.
She parrots back everything these days. We were talking with Janet about what we were planning for dinner, and she proudly yelled out "veggie burger!" (Her enunciation was a bit off, but parents are especially good at attributing crystal clear meaning to stuff that, in this case, probably sounded more like "eddy buggah".)
She's obsessed with pointing out noses. Anything that has a nose (e.g. strangers on the bus, pictures of frogs), or might conceivably have a type of stylized nose (cars, fire hydrants), get "NOOZE!" shouted at them more often than not.
I took her out on the deck of the ferry recently, up to the front, where the wind is the strongest. She was smiling as hard as she could, clinging to me like an extremely clingy clinging machine, and kept saying "indy! indy!" (windy). Tons of fun.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Two new teeth
We've nearly got the full set now. Sophie's two bottom eye teeth made their appearance yesterday, just before she turned a year and a half. All we need now are the two year molars to complete the set!
Monday, September 8, 2008
Aw, baby's first compound word
Sophie and I were walking home, while Holly (Mama) and Kristi (Didi) went to choir, and we passed by a park. There was a soccer game going on, and once Sophie spotted the ball, I told her it was soccer, called football by the rest of the world. She liked the sound of "football" better, so I explained how it was called that because you kick the ball with your foot. I guess I mimed a kick or something, because she started saying "football", but really slowly, as she had to get her foot in the air to do a kick before she'd say "foot", and then have to wait until she got her foot on the ground again before saying "ball". She said it five or six times - we were there ten minutes.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Latest in the world of Sophie
I haven't posted for a while, inexcusable. Even worse, I'm posting my first post in a long time while I'm tired, due to Sophie having a cold and not sleeping happily through the night like usual. (Plus, she got me up before 6am to watch cartoons.)
[Side commentary on the toddlers' cartoons of today: I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a well-done cartoon based on Richard Scarry's work. However, this was offset by the next cartoon, something about mechanical animals, in which the horse with the power of flight was, of course, the unicorn. Never heard of a pegasus, people? Very poor.]
In short, not much sleep in the last night or two, which isn't too bad in itself, but is a rude awakening (har) from the usual wonderful pattern of full nights of sleep. So I'm tired and somewhat grumpy, but I'll still try and recount a few recent Sophie stories for her vast and eager audience.
First, her vocabulary is growing in leaps and bounds. By this point, we've completely lost track of how many words she knows. She picks up new words on the spot, and can either say them in context, or understand them correctly when said to her. She learned Janet's name today, and "dishes", and "boogah" (she'll announce this to get you to help blow her nose), and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
She's also putting words together into simple sentences, and using words outside of the context in which she learned them. For example, she said "beach hot" today, "hot" only used for food temperatures before. Her other sentences usually involve commands, like "nana up" (get off your butt and get me a banana, Mom) and "pasta allgone more". She always seems to want more of some things, cottage cheese especially. Oh, and we tried her on peanut butter, and it seems fine (no allergies), but there does still seem to be something causing her a rash from time to time. My money is currently on tofu/soy - we'll see how that pans out.
Her main pastime is still reading. Books, books, books. She'll play with the occasional ball, and she likes a few stuffed animals, but the first thing she'll do in the morning (after pointing out your toes and your nose for you) is to bee-line for the book box. If you're working on the computer for five minutes, you might look down to discover a pile of four or five books that she's piled on your lap, a none-too-subtle hint that she'd like to be read to.
Holly and I recently became members of Science World (Sophie gets in free), and we went for a trip there during my lunch hour. Soph really enjoyed seeing the bees (actual bees, although to her, all insects are still "bees"), and sitting on the giant frog, and splashing in the water table, and generally running amok. We're looking forward to many more trips there, plus some trips out to the Vancouver Aquarium as well.
And finally, we plan to take Soph to a BBQ tomorrow, if she's feeling well enough. It's at Raven and Robyn's, so Sophie would get to see Mason again, which would be cool. Hope she's feeling better by tomorrow, and that we all sleep through the night. Wish us luck!
[Side commentary on the toddlers' cartoons of today: I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a well-done cartoon based on Richard Scarry's work. However, this was offset by the next cartoon, something about mechanical animals, in which the horse with the power of flight was, of course, the unicorn. Never heard of a pegasus, people? Very poor.]
In short, not much sleep in the last night or two, which isn't too bad in itself, but is a rude awakening (har) from the usual wonderful pattern of full nights of sleep. So I'm tired and somewhat grumpy, but I'll still try and recount a few recent Sophie stories for her vast and eager audience.
First, her vocabulary is growing in leaps and bounds. By this point, we've completely lost track of how many words she knows. She picks up new words on the spot, and can either say them in context, or understand them correctly when said to her. She learned Janet's name today, and "dishes", and "boogah" (she'll announce this to get you to help blow her nose), and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
She's also putting words together into simple sentences, and using words outside of the context in which she learned them. For example, she said "beach hot" today, "hot" only used for food temperatures before. Her other sentences usually involve commands, like "nana up" (get off your butt and get me a banana, Mom) and "pasta allgone more". She always seems to want more of some things, cottage cheese especially. Oh, and we tried her on peanut butter, and it seems fine (no allergies), but there does still seem to be something causing her a rash from time to time. My money is currently on tofu/soy - we'll see how that pans out.
Her main pastime is still reading. Books, books, books. She'll play with the occasional ball, and she likes a few stuffed animals, but the first thing she'll do in the morning (after pointing out your toes and your nose for you) is to bee-line for the book box. If you're working on the computer for five minutes, you might look down to discover a pile of four or five books that she's piled on your lap, a none-too-subtle hint that she'd like to be read to.
Holly and I recently became members of Science World (Sophie gets in free), and we went for a trip there during my lunch hour. Soph really enjoyed seeing the bees (actual bees, although to her, all insects are still "bees"), and sitting on the giant frog, and splashing in the water table, and generally running amok. We're looking forward to many more trips there, plus some trips out to the Vancouver Aquarium as well.
And finally, we plan to take Soph to a BBQ tomorrow, if she's feeling well enough. It's at Raven and Robyn's, so Sophie would get to see Mason again, which would be cool. Hope she's feeling better by tomorrow, and that we all sleep through the night. Wish us luck!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Happy First Day of Non-School!
The first day of the new school year always brings me back to Mom taking photos of me and Kristi in our new clothes on the deck. Obviously, Sophie isn't going to school today (we have four more years still she starts Kindergarten in 2012), but she just got a vintage 70s dress as a gift and it looked so much like a back to school outfit that I had to take her picture. Happy first day of school to all of the students out there!
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