My Little Princess
So MJ is a smart cookie. Not just "oh, look at my little darling, she's so smart" parents gush when they see little precious about to short out the entire power grid with a well-placed fork in an electrical socket, but genuinely smart. Lets lay out some facts, shall we?
She is 1.33 yrs old.
She already will dance in rhythm, and in fact knows that my father's cell phone holds the thing which makes her happiest in life-- the Penn State fight song. She usually won't let him get 10 feet into the house without clawing for it.
She knows all her major AND minor body parts... you know, knees, elbows, clavicle, ossicles, etc.
She's a clear speaker, and although she can't make all her sounds yet it is very apparent to anyone who hears her what, exactly, she wants. Example: she saw my tattoos the other day, and asked, "Dat?" I told her, and she immediately responded "Tat too!" while pointing at all 3 of them. She also clearly enunciates when she wants something Aidan has, yelling "Let slip the dogs of war!" or something similar. One time I caught her muttering about dirty Mongols.
She can easily follow and understand anything we tell her, including "Please throw this away" and "not in the nuts again, please". She will also tell US what she wants; she's quite fond of saying "di-di" and grabbing herself a new diaper and associated wiping equipment. Although she's a little confused and calls her jay-jay her pee-pee. I blame her mother for that one. Gotta tell ya, it's pretty cool to have a kid this young willingly throwing her own diapers away.
She's quite capable of defending herself, and will often enact pre-emptive strikes if Big Bro even looks at a toy that he wants to play with. As of today, I've seen her: pinch him, hit him, tackle him, and hip-check him. Also, I think she's constructing some nefarious mega-weapon out of used binkies as they seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate.
She understands when it's time to leave that it is polite to tell everyone "bye-bye" which she does by waving her hand and saying "Bye!" This happens if she even hears someone say something alluding to leaving; my parents were here a week or so ago and my father said, "Well it's about time for us to get back down to the house" at which point she looked up, waved, and went back to playing.
She has keen object permanence, which makes life a little hard because you can't just hide things on her... she's like a friggin' bloodhound, and will make a beeline for whatever you hid even if she didn't see you do it. Along with this is good focus for what she wants-- one day we were out of bananas and she wouldn't stop screaming "nanas!!!" until we went to the store to get them. I offered her everything I could think of, including whiskey and some jellied toast. No dice.
In short, she's a much more assertive toddler than Aidan was-- I have a sneaking suspicion that this one's gonna be a tad trickier to manage. Oops, gotta go...she's stacked her blocks up and is heading out the door with my car keys and wallet.
She is 1.33 yrs old.
She already will dance in rhythm, and in fact knows that my father's cell phone holds the thing which makes her happiest in life-- the Penn State fight song. She usually won't let him get 10 feet into the house without clawing for it.
She knows all her major AND minor body parts... you know, knees, elbows, clavicle, ossicles, etc.
She's a clear speaker, and although she can't make all her sounds yet it is very apparent to anyone who hears her what, exactly, she wants. Example: she saw my tattoos the other day, and asked, "Dat?" I told her, and she immediately responded "Tat too!" while pointing at all 3 of them. She also clearly enunciates when she wants something Aidan has, yelling "Let slip the dogs of war!" or something similar. One time I caught her muttering about dirty Mongols.
She can easily follow and understand anything we tell her, including "Please throw this away" and "not in the nuts again, please". She will also tell US what she wants; she's quite fond of saying "di-di" and grabbing herself a new diaper and associated wiping equipment. Although she's a little confused and calls her jay-jay her pee-pee. I blame her mother for that one. Gotta tell ya, it's pretty cool to have a kid this young willingly throwing her own diapers away.
She's quite capable of defending herself, and will often enact pre-emptive strikes if Big Bro even looks at a toy that he wants to play with. As of today, I've seen her: pinch him, hit him, tackle him, and hip-check him. Also, I think she's constructing some nefarious mega-weapon out of used binkies as they seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate.
She understands when it's time to leave that it is polite to tell everyone "bye-bye" which she does by waving her hand and saying "Bye!" This happens if she even hears someone say something alluding to leaving; my parents were here a week or so ago and my father said, "Well it's about time for us to get back down to the house" at which point she looked up, waved, and went back to playing.
She has keen object permanence, which makes life a little hard because you can't just hide things on her... she's like a friggin' bloodhound, and will make a beeline for whatever you hid even if she didn't see you do it. Along with this is good focus for what she wants-- one day we were out of bananas and she wouldn't stop screaming "nanas!!!" until we went to the store to get them. I offered her everything I could think of, including whiskey and some jellied toast. No dice.
In short, she's a much more assertive toddler than Aidan was-- I have a sneaking suspicion that this one's gonna be a tad trickier to manage. Oops, gotta go...she's stacked her blocks up and is heading out the door with my car keys and wallet.
posted by Clueless Dad | 2:53 PM
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