Month in Review: February 2010
Carolyn is now 21 months old. Here are some of the highlights from the past month.
- Quote of the month: "Be right back. I'm getting more laundry." She said this on repeat while carrying around a laundry basket for about 20 minutes one Saturday morning.
- We had massive amounts of snow here in the Philadelphia area. More than 4 feet in the month of February. Just brutal for those of us who had to shovel. But kinda fun for Carolyn.
- It seems the terrible twos do not adhere to a strict start date, as they seem to have already arrived. Carolyn will routinely throw tantrums for no apparent reason. Yay.
- We went to Pet Smart a couple of days ago, and Carolyn spent a good 15 minutes walking up and down the fish aisle shouting, "Wow! Look at these fish!"
- We've been taking her to a little gym class (at a place called, strangely enough, The Little Gym) for toddlers for a few weeks now. She gets to do all kinds of fun stuff like swing on a bar, crawl under tunnels, and generally run around and sort-of-but-not-really play with other kids. She loves it, and typically takes an early nap those days because she's so exhausted from all the physical activity.
- Carolyn can now sing the ABC's, more or less. Okay, so there are a few hiccups along the way. For example, she'll typically skip letters C through P and go straight from B to Q (you know, B and P kinda sound the same). But, if we correct her she'll go right along with a little bit of prompting. L-M-N-O-P is a bit of a jumble, but you kind of expect that. She even does the ending pretty well. I would prove this to you if I ever had my video camera handy.
- For a while she had been counting correctly, but now she enjoys skipping numbers and will typically go "one... two... eleven..." As long as we correct her and help her along, she'll actually count all the way up to twenty.
- After dinner every night, Carolyn now insists that we have a "dance party". I'll allow you to imagine what this looks like, because I can guarantee you I'll never videotape it and put it on this blog.
- Remember, like, 6 months ago when I told you we had a potty trainer? Yeah, well, still hasn't gone on the potty since then. We'll work on that again some day. I promise.
Month in Review: January 2010
- Grandma Moyer paid us two visits in the span of a few weeks. Carolyn has really warmed up to her, so much so that when she arrived for the second time, Carolyn went right to her and sat on her lap. They played tea party, built with blocks and read books (pretty much Carolyn's favorite things).
- We're getting quite a bit of whining and backsass lately, and this can only mean one thing: The terrible twos are starting early. Watch out.
- She's learning colors, numbers, shapes, and letters, and making excellent progress. There's the occasional mix-up between a K and an X or an A and an H, but I'd say she's got 80% of the alphabet down pat. As for colors, she knows all the major ones, and surprised us the other day by saying "amarillo" when we held up a yellow crayon. Muy bien.
- Speaking of crayons, Carolyn likes to draw. A lot. She'll also frequently ask us to draw the following, nearly always in this order: An octopus, a turtle, and a fish. The other day, she took a yellow crayon, colored a little bit on a bagel chip, then ate it. As the commercial goes: I can't believe it's not butter!
- We read lots of books, and Carolyn is really picking up on the key words in her favorite books. In some instances, she's able to recite nearly the entire book all by herself. See: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, That's Not My Fairy.
- Her vocabulary is vast, and she speaks in full sentences. This doesn't always necessarily guarantee that what she's saying can be interpreted. However, most things she says are unmistakable. My personal favorites are: "No daddy, go away" and, as she said when she came into our bed in the middle of the night last night and crawled into Kristen's arms, "Mommy, you're the best."
- This little girl is a dancing machine, and insists that "everybody dance" every night after dinner.
Boots go on your...
... hands? That doesn't seem right. (Note: When asked what she was wearing, Carolyn replied, "Glove boots". Nobody told her to say this.)
Ah. Much better.
Scenes from a tea party
We're still working on her table manners.
Daddy/daughter time
Kristen's Christmas break is over and she's back to work, but mine continues until next Monday. So what have Carolyn and I been up to? Eating snacks and watching football of course.
Month in Review: Carolyn's 19th month
Today Carolyn is 19 months old. Let's recap the highlights from the past month.
- We had Thanksgiving with lots of cousins.
- Carolyn is a dancing machine.
- She now eats at table with us, and in fact eats what we eat for the most part. Usually about halfway through the meal she'll proclaim that she's done, but if we give her something to distract her, she'll eat more.
- She's been talking in short sentences, e.g. "Wake up, mommy"
- She's also started repeating things we say, which is dangerous. So far she has repeated three different ways to say "excrement" from three different people. ("Excrement" was not one of the three variations she repeated.)
- We had 22 inches of snow. Carolyn was hesitant to play, Dad was hesitant to shovel.
- She's had a few instances of talking in her sleep right while she was falling asleep. One time she said "Nemo, Elmo, Nemo, Elmo". Another time she just said "No!". And a third time she said "Toot."
- As you might have gathered from the above bullet, we watch parts of Finding Nemo nearly every day. It's the only movie she ever asks for, and I have to say, there are certainly lots worse choices she could have made.
- She's got a new tooth, which brings the total to 11 (4 molars, 4 front top, and 3 front bottom).
- She's gotten really good at fitting shapes into the right spaces, for example in puzzles and other toys. She now knows "circle" and "triangle".
- She's starting to learn colors, though she's not too great yet. She'll routinely identify blue correctly, but blue is also her first guess for most other colors. However, she's pretty good when you say a color and ask her to find the right crayon.
- A few days ago, she was playing peek-a-boo with herself in a mirror that was hanging on the back of a door. She proceeded to pull the mirror down over her own head, and it promptly smashed into a million pieces on the floor, and yet somehow she emerged completely unscathed. Since then I have bragged that my baby is so tough she smashes mirrors over her head. At the time Kristen and I both nearly had a heart attack.
Slideshow: Snow
We had about 22 inches of snow fall yesterday. Carolyn was a little apprehensive to actually play with the snow, but it did give us an excuse to break out the snowsuit. And I spent 2 hours shoveling and only got half the driveway cleared, but all of my back and legs in pain.
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