From Observer to Participant
I'm back! A quick trip to the Genius Bar at our mall's Apple Store and my laptop is fixed-- and happily, the replacement part only cost $60! I was fearing the worst... that I would need to replace the entire thing, at a cost of much more than $60. I did sort of get the feeling that our Genius Bar specialist Jeff (although extremely friendly and helpful) was scratching his head that we weren't upgrading to a brand-new MacBook Pro, and getting rid of our plain old white crumb-filled fingerprinted MacBook that was "manufactured way before 2011" (so he muttered to himself as he was searching for the replacement part we needed).
(I could go on a tightwad anti-technology rant here, but I'll spare you.)
What I really intended to write about is how C is becoming quite the active participant in family life here these days.
All of the sudden, she is eager to try the behaviors that she has been observing in her family members for the past twelve months.
Here's a good example: how many millions of times has she seen Mama put lotion on her hands, or watched big sister L use the hand sanitizer pump after going potty?
One day as I was changing her, she grabbed the lotion on the changing table and started doing this:
It was as if she was saying "I see that thing, and I know what I'm supposed to do with it. I can be like all the other big people in this house."
{By the way, you get to hear all three of C's favorite words in the video: "Hi", "Yeah", and the latest and greatest-- "Bithuh Bithuh Bithuh"... she says that one all day long.}
She has also started singing with big sisters. If you listen really hard when L and N are belting out a tune together, you'll now hear a tiny "Ooo... eeee... oooo" chiming in with little staccato patterns. And of course, there's the clapping and approving "Yeah" when the song is finished.
She points in gleeful recognition whenever she sees a picture of somebody she knows (sisters, grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and friends) and tries to say his or her name (which usually comes out sounding like "Dada", "Bahba", or "Beh"). She is SO eager to communicate that she knows who everybody is. It's her favorite game.
It's pretty amazing to see her change from baby to little girl overnight. Sometimes we forget that our babies are absorbing and remembering everything they see and hear, even as newborns. When they get old enough to figure out how to communicate it, it's so much fun to see all the data they've stored up!
(I could go on a tightwad anti-technology rant here, but I'll spare you.)
What I really intended to write about is how C is becoming quite the active participant in family life here these days.
All of the sudden, she is eager to try the behaviors that she has been observing in her family members for the past twelve months.
Here's a good example: how many millions of times has she seen Mama put lotion on her hands, or watched big sister L use the hand sanitizer pump after going potty?
One day as I was changing her, she grabbed the lotion on the changing table and started doing this:
It was as if she was saying "I see that thing, and I know what I'm supposed to do with it. I can be like all the other big people in this house."
{By the way, you get to hear all three of C's favorite words in the video: "Hi", "Yeah", and the latest and greatest-- "Bithuh Bithuh Bithuh"... she says that one all day long.}
She has also started singing with big sisters. If you listen really hard when L and N are belting out a tune together, you'll now hear a tiny "Ooo... eeee... oooo" chiming in with little staccato patterns. And of course, there's the clapping and approving "Yeah" when the song is finished.
She points in gleeful recognition whenever she sees a picture of somebody she knows (sisters, grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and friends) and tries to say his or her name (which usually comes out sounding like "Dada", "Bahba", or "Beh"). She is SO eager to communicate that she knows who everybody is. It's her favorite game.
It's pretty amazing to see her change from baby to little girl overnight. Sometimes we forget that our babies are absorbing and remembering everything they see and hear, even as newborns. When they get old enough to figure out how to communicate it, it's so much fun to see all the data they've stored up!
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