Molly and Kiera
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naomikritzerNine things about Molly:
1. She has started reading. She is doing this entirely through word recognition: she can't sound words out, though sometimes she can decode a long word like "shopkeeper" if you cover up parts of the word to let her read "shop" and "keep" on their own.
2. One of her holiday gifts was a little kit to let you paint rings. These are the plastic rings where you paint the inside and the thick plastic magnifies the design -- they're funky looking. Molly painted them a few days after she got them -- all four in one sitting. When I looked at the designs, she said, "I didn't paint anything in particular. They're abstract." (She learned the concept of abstract art from the art class she took this fall at Articulture)
3. She has once again started declaring certain days to be "the day all the Mollies wear pink" (or blue, or some other color).
4. She wears novelty socks every day. Molly loves novelty socks.
5. She plays extraordinarily well with Kiera, and is patient and generous with her. We played Cootie today. You have to roll a 1 to get the body and then a 2 to get the head before you can accumulate the rest of the body parts. Since she and I both had a body and a head already, she suggested that we give Kiera our 1 or 2 if we rolled one, so that she could start accumulating the rest of her Cootie. (Molly may have regretted this when Kiera almost won the game.)
6. She decided to put on a play for us yesterday. She dressed up in a costume that included orange butterfly wings and a filmy dress, then sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She also assembled two jigsaw puzzles. I think she finished off with "Jingle Bells" after I had to leave to take a phone call. She had Ed accompany her with a single cymbal and a drumstick.
7. Shortly after Christmas, she found this roll of gold ribbon I'd picked up at a craft store and asked me to make her a crown out of it. She had me decorate it with ribbons. She has worn this crown nearly constantly ever since.
8. She is intrigued by textile arts as well as drawing, but not really competant at them yet. I made her a loom out of a piece of cardboard and she was really excited and filled in about half of it. Then I told her we weren't going to be able to take the yarn off the loom, and she mostly lost interest.
9. I told her that when she finished her weaving, we'd hang it up somewhere, like her bedroom. Or my bedroom. She offered to trade the weaving for one of the pictures we had hanging up of the Great Wall of China. I ended up letting her pick one and taking it into her room, then taking down her green Chinese dragon to hang the wall in its place. Kiera immediately laid claim to the dragon, and traded me a panda for it. I don't know why people decorate their kids' rooms in "Barbie" or "My Little Pony" when it's so much more fun to let them pick stuff out at art fairs. (Most of the Asian art are prints bought for about $5 each at the Powderhorn Art Festival this past summer.)
Nine things about Kiera:
1. When Molly asks to be excused from the table, Kiera says, "Yes you may!"
2. Kiera is a gravy, sauce, and dressing fiend. This can be a problem when Ed and I are using Tabasco sauce, as she wants some, too. She also wants to put it on herself. No, we don't let her.
3. She loves watching while I cook. She pulls the chair up by the stove for a better view. (You'll have to trust that I keep her far enough away that she's not going to burn herself. Fortunately, she does seem to understand that the stove is hot, and she has to not make any sudden moves if she wants to get to continue watching.)
4. She loves hot chocolate. She asks for it constantly.
5. She loves helping. This morning she wanted to make my coffee. She also wants to open the microwave whenever we nuke something, and it's even better if she can also close it and press Start.
6. At lunchtime, she has given up any pretense of wanting her own selection and simply says when asked that she wants some of MY lunch. Whatever that is.
7. She is still nursing, but fortunately she no longer expects to nurse at bedtime.
8. If something hurts, she'll ask for a "cold" -- a cold pack, to put on it. This is at least less wasteful than constant demands for band-aids, though sometimes it's less convenient.
9. She has imaginary phone conversations with people and tells them all kinds of things.
1. She has started reading. She is doing this entirely through word recognition: she can't sound words out, though sometimes she can decode a long word like "shopkeeper" if you cover up parts of the word to let her read "shop" and "keep" on their own.
2. One of her holiday gifts was a little kit to let you paint rings. These are the plastic rings where you paint the inside and the thick plastic magnifies the design -- they're funky looking. Molly painted them a few days after she got them -- all four in one sitting. When I looked at the designs, she said, "I didn't paint anything in particular. They're abstract." (She learned the concept of abstract art from the art class she took this fall at Articulture)
3. She has once again started declaring certain days to be "the day all the Mollies wear pink" (or blue, or some other color).
4. She wears novelty socks every day. Molly loves novelty socks.
5. She plays extraordinarily well with Kiera, and is patient and generous with her. We played Cootie today. You have to roll a 1 to get the body and then a 2 to get the head before you can accumulate the rest of the body parts. Since she and I both had a body and a head already, she suggested that we give Kiera our 1 or 2 if we rolled one, so that she could start accumulating the rest of her Cootie. (Molly may have regretted this when Kiera almost won the game.)
6. She decided to put on a play for us yesterday. She dressed up in a costume that included orange butterfly wings and a filmy dress, then sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She also assembled two jigsaw puzzles. I think she finished off with "Jingle Bells" after I had to leave to take a phone call. She had Ed accompany her with a single cymbal and a drumstick.
7. Shortly after Christmas, she found this roll of gold ribbon I'd picked up at a craft store and asked me to make her a crown out of it. She had me decorate it with ribbons. She has worn this crown nearly constantly ever since.
8. She is intrigued by textile arts as well as drawing, but not really competant at them yet. I made her a loom out of a piece of cardboard and she was really excited and filled in about half of it. Then I told her we weren't going to be able to take the yarn off the loom, and she mostly lost interest.
9. I told her that when she finished her weaving, we'd hang it up somewhere, like her bedroom. Or my bedroom. She offered to trade the weaving for one of the pictures we had hanging up of the Great Wall of China. I ended up letting her pick one and taking it into her room, then taking down her green Chinese dragon to hang the wall in its place. Kiera immediately laid claim to the dragon, and traded me a panda for it. I don't know why people decorate their kids' rooms in "Barbie" or "My Little Pony" when it's so much more fun to let them pick stuff out at art fairs. (Most of the Asian art are prints bought for about $5 each at the Powderhorn Art Festival this past summer.)
Nine things about Kiera:
1. When Molly asks to be excused from the table, Kiera says, "Yes you may!"
2. Kiera is a gravy, sauce, and dressing fiend. This can be a problem when Ed and I are using Tabasco sauce, as she wants some, too. She also wants to put it on herself. No, we don't let her.
3. She loves watching while I cook. She pulls the chair up by the stove for a better view. (You'll have to trust that I keep her far enough away that she's not going to burn herself. Fortunately, she does seem to understand that the stove is hot, and she has to not make any sudden moves if she wants to get to continue watching.)
4. She loves hot chocolate. She asks for it constantly.
5. She loves helping. This morning she wanted to make my coffee. She also wants to open the microwave whenever we nuke something, and it's even better if she can also close it and press Start.
6. At lunchtime, she has given up any pretense of wanting her own selection and simply says when asked that she wants some of MY lunch. Whatever that is.
7. She is still nursing, but fortunately she no longer expects to nurse at bedtime.
8. If something hurts, she'll ask for a "cold" -- a cold pack, to put on it. This is at least less wasteful than constant demands for band-aids, though sometimes it's less convenient.
9. She has imaginary phone conversations with people and tells them all kinds of things.
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Date: 2006-01-09 11:59 pm (UTC)Okay, she's probably got a couple of years before she'd be able to handle knitting needles without throwing them down in frustration (though proficiency at that kind of fine motor control varies a lot), and probably even longer before she's ready to work on socks. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The more sock knitters in the world, the better. :-)
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Date: 2006-01-10 05:18 am (UTC)I can't knit, but I know lots of people who can. If her interest in textiles stays high I will arrange for her to learn how to knit once she's old enough that she might realistically be able to do it.
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Date: 2006-01-10 03:35 am (UTC)Just wait until she's telling real people about the things she imagines YOU are doing!
Enjoy -- they're never as much fun as when they are little.
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:25 pm (UTC)