The other night we played with a puzzle App on my iPhone. The point of the puzzle application (it's called Tozzle and actually kind of sucks but it is a free demo version) is for the child to match the picture appearing in the upper corner of the screen with the appropriate empty outline on the puzzle --then drag and drop the item into said space.
My boy has yet to master the drag-and-drop puzzle technique, but he does like to tap the shapes on the various puzzle screens because they make neat sounds. In this story, the shapes on the puzzle were the numbers 1-9, so the App announced the names of the numbers.
You still with me? Our child began to tap...
App Voice: "Seven"
He: Eight!
App Voice: "Two"
He: Three!
I got a little excited, thinking there might be someone in the family naturally gifted with numbers, so I tapped a couple on my own to see if our prodigy knew them:
Me/App Voice: "One"
He: (Nothing)
Me/App Voice: "Three"
He: (Nothing)
Me/App Voice: "Ten"
He: (Grins and looks at me) "All Done"
Oh well.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Vocab Inventory
Agua
Airplane
Apple
Baby
Ball
Block
Book
Bowl
Car
Chair
Cheeeeeese
Cheek
Cow
Crow
Cup
Daddy
Dark
Door
Duck (Quack)
Eyes
Fan
Foot
Knee
Light
Mine
Momma
Moon
Mouth
No
Nose
On
Oscar
Shirt
Shoe
Sock
Star
Teeth
Toes!
Train
Tree
Truck
Turtle
Up"All Gone"
"All Done"
43 words and two phrases that my 19-month-old kid says.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Surprise Nap
90 minutes before the 'scheduled' time, E just conked out. D is going to the store so we can feed our Thanksgiving guests. I cannot believe that the holidays are here. Yet they are. Me + new Direct TV remote have a matinee date.
Oh, what horrible chick flick to watch?!
Oh, what horrible chick flick to watch?!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Is it tacky to pee behind your garage?
File this under: Household Bummers
Every 7-8 months or so, our toilet backs up and creepiness comes up the tub drain, putting everything else onto the back burner until we get our friends at Roto Rooter out to clear the line, and are able to use the toilet and shower of our ONLY bathroom again.
Today is that day. The issue has been resolved by the snake, but we've decided to bite the bullet on the larger problem. As I type this,there are two men vigorously digging near the front of the house where they will install an access point to our drain so that we are (a) up to code, and so (b) if this happens again, the back-up will happen in the yard, not our bathroom.
Price tag: $1,800.
Time job will be complete: ??:?? pm.
Begs the question "Why am I drinking a third cup of coffee?"
Edited to add: 3:20 pm. That's when they finished.
Every 7-8 months or so, our toilet backs up and creepiness comes up the tub drain, putting everything else onto the back burner until we get our friends at Roto Rooter out to clear the line, and are able to use the toilet and shower of our ONLY bathroom again.
Today is that day. The issue has been resolved by the snake, but we've decided to bite the bullet on the larger problem. As I type this,there are two men vigorously digging near the front of the house where they will install an access point to our drain so that we are (a) up to code, and so (b) if this happens again, the back-up will happen in the yard, not our bathroom.
Price tag: $1,800.
Time job will be complete: ??:?? pm.
Begs the question "Why am I drinking a third cup of coffee?"
Edited to add: 3:20 pm. That's when they finished.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
My Dream Came True
Husband and Child asleep, while I sipped hot tea and answered emails, very very quietly in the same bed. They slept til 8!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Daylight Savings & Bagel Delivery
Can never remember if the savings start now or end now. Either way, all I know is that this morning, being woken at 6:30 am really meant being woken at 5:30 am. As soon as he was loosed on the world, E ran to the living room because that's where the trains are.
Milk and bagels for breakfast; F1 race on the TV; Mr. N brought bagels and stayed for a bit. Ordered my long-impossible-to-find Vincent Longo loose powder in 'Porcelain.' Nice morning, so far.
Should probably note some stats about the toddler formerly known as...
32 inches tall
26.3 lbs
49 cm head circumference
For those playing along at home, that's 50 percentile for height, 60 percentile for weight and a whopping 80 percentile for head size. My guess is that the extra large noggin has something to do with the slightly above average weight.
For the record, he is 18 months, 1 week old and counting.
Go E!
Milk and bagels for breakfast; F1 race on the TV; Mr. N brought bagels and stayed for a bit. Ordered my long-impossible-to-find Vincent Longo loose powder in 'Porcelain.' Nice morning, so far.
Should probably note some stats about the toddler formerly known as...
32 inches tall
26.3 lbs
49 cm head circumference
For those playing along at home, that's 50 percentile for height, 60 percentile for weight and a whopping 80 percentile for head size. My guess is that the extra large noggin has something to do with the slightly above average weight.
For the record, he is 18 months, 1 week old and counting.
Go E!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Boring is better than trying too hard
The sprout got into a tub of Vaseline and smeared the clock radio, bedside table, floor, himself before running in to share the situation with me. I tried to wipe his hands but by the time I had the cloth available, he was gleefully smearing the goo on his hands on the glass of our framed Airstream print (which happened to be leaning against a low wall .)
Emphasis on the 'gleefully' part, please.
Emphasis on the 'gleefully' part, please.
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