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Zadie is starting to roll over and can manage it with a little help from a friend! She also laughed for the first time the other day - laughed!! Can you believe it? And she is also really interacting with toys with her hands and her voice - she is a talker! We have a little cloth book with pictures of animals that Nolan shows her and "reads" to her (names the animals on each page as he gets to it.) She is enthralled with him...we went to an open playgroup with many kids running around, but she only had eyes for her big brother, tracking him from slide to playdough to bouncy horse. She not only smiles readily, but does so with a full body wiggle as if to say "wow - ain't life grand?" She still loves her tubby and nudie time on the changing table.
Nolan has always had a great memory and will recite passages from his books at the drop of a hat. This morning, he delighted me with this:
Hum-a-bum! buzz! buzz! Hum-a-bum buzz!
As I went over Tipple-tine
I met a flock of bonny swine;
Some yellow-nacked, some yellow backed!
They were the very bonniest swine
That e'er went over Tipple-tine.
Yes, Beatrix Potter is a favorite around here. Here's a look into the 2.75 year old's language process:
Many weeks ago while driving in the car, I heard a sharp clattering in the backseat; Nolan was banging his toy car keys against the window. I said "Banging toys against a window?? No dice! Not okay..." Three days ago - OUT OF NOWHERE - he says to me: "Banging toys against a window? No dice! Playing with toys? Dice!"
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Just to clarify, Nolan's seemingly bizarre poem is, as Sarah mentioned, from Beatrix Potter. More specifically, though, it is from Squirrel Nutkin, which has lots of totally wacky 'riddles'. The answer to this riddle is: bees.
Another example from Squirrel Nutkin that he'll do sometimes (but which may never be caught on film - I was blown away when Sarah showed me this movie this morning because it didn't include him swatting at the camera or saying 'no take a picture!' - it's like capturing the loch ness monster) is:
Riddle me, riddle me, rot tot tote;
A little wee man in a red red coat;
A staff in his hand and a stone in his throat;
If you tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat.
Can anyone guess what that riddle is talking about??????
lady bug?
farmer?
what????
Very cute - what a memory! Can we cheat to get the groat? Actually, they pay me to look stuff up. WARNING - SPOILER! A *c*h*e*r*r*y*. Now, where's my groat?
Here's the kicker...a groat is basically a nickel! And a nickel you shall have!
in my defense, I had Lucy breathing down my neck so I really didn't get to play---not that I would have come up with cherry. But I did look up groat in the dictionary and it is 4cents.
I was going to google this to come up with the answer (aka cheat) but the afore mentioned Lucy couldn't tolerate my absence from her little world.
We made a book this am, by the way. It was called Whaley the Whale by Kate, illustrated by Lucie. She is in to spelling her name Lucie these days.
By the way, this is all about the riddle. The heck with the kiddos, apparently. Psych!
Adorable and more later, when I am back to being a grown up. (Lucy told me I wasn't really a grown up, I was a kid.)
XO
"Dice" Hey, that's gonna catch on, I know it! He be hella smart!
"Dice" Hey, that's gonna catch on, I know it! He be hella smart!
This blog is on drugs! First it tells me "incorrect password." So I try again changing 1 letter and whammo - my comment shows up TWICE!Well, glad to be back on, Sarah!
"Dice" Hey, that's gonna catch on, I know it! He be hella smart!
joaniebaloney is a funny gal. glad she is back on, too. i needed a good chuckle today.
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