We had snow last night, and blowing winds, and all the area schools are closed. A good day to stay tucked inside and warm except…
When I was putting laundry in and JediBoy got in BabyGirl’s face, wanting to give her a kiss on the lips, and she bit his lips instead, HARD!
Or when JediBoy decided his black “Fear Factor” popsicle (oh, yuck) which he was eating to ease the pain and swelling on his lips was too melty to finish, so he put it in a bowl on a kitchen chair… and a few minutes later, BabyGirl found it there and ate some, smearing the rest on her body, the chair and the floor. Eeeew.
Or when the power went out about five minutes later, leaving me wondering how long it might be out and what that might mean about the heat, or cooking, or the laundry now festering in the washer.
(It did come on about 45 minutes later.)
But JediBoy has had a very good day (when not being bit and after the power came back on) playing Reader Rabbit 1st-3rd grade math (thanks, Aunt R!). Obsessing over it, really, because the “goal” is to collect enough pieces to rebuild Reader’s ship on Pi-Rat Island - so he is being given increasingly harder puzzles involving things like - analog/digital time conversions, fractions and later equivalent fractions (of pizza), place value, basic addition and subtraction with digital manipulatives and number lines, geometry, creating shapes of certain sizes, and creating symmetric shapes. (Ah, I love saying all that in educationese! It makes it sound so Educational!) Really, it’s just a fun game that he’s been enjoying.
BabyGirl likes to play with me and her dolls - we take turns kissing and rocking them. She also loves watching the squirrels on the squirrel bird feeders, dancing to music, and exploring the house. Today she signed “please” for the first time, and then asked to read her Baby Sign: I Can Sign Playtime book - over, and over, and over! So I got out the accompanying DVD for the second time, and she was captivated. The sign she’s trying to get is “book” because she likes to cuddle and flip the pages. But I’ve noticed that she’s most excited anytime the CGI character Sookie is on-screen - do Sookie’s slightly Asian features most closely represent the Hispanic and Mayan features BabyGirl was used to in Guatemala?
I’m not sure, but I know that she’s most in love with Sookie. And JediBoy is begging for another turn on the computer!
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