Perspicacious Bordeaux

M has a Leap Frog alphabet fridge magnet toy which she loves to play with. It comes with each letter of the alphabet in both uppercase and lowercase. That's 52 letters total. I thought that would overwhelm her at first, so I only gave her the uppercase letters to start with. We (well mostly I) love to try to spell words where each letter only appears once. Boy is it a challenge. We have since introduced the lowercase letters, so we have 52 letters to play with. Ah, much much better! Perspicacious Bordeaux are two words I came up with, then I ran out of vowels. I wonder whether there is a word list somewhere which enumerates words where each letter appears only once, and another one which enumerates words where each letter appears at most twice. Surely there must be such a list out there...

M is doing better with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. In addition to "aba" (up above), "hi" (high), "ky" (sky), she now says "ar" (are), and I think she's working on her version of diamond.

She's learning so much. She recognizes lots of words. We know this when we speak to her, by how she responds to us, when we ask her to point to something, etc. Some of the words she understands includes:

apple ... she can say this, and can sort of sign it
banana ... she says "ba" or "nana(nana)", and can sort sign it
carrot
cereal
cheese ... she says "chs" or "sss", and definitely can sign it
cracker ... she can sign this
goldfish cracker
milk ... she can say & sign this
noodle (spaghetti, ramen, etc) ... she says "noonoo"
ravioli ... she tries to say it, "rararara"
tea ... she says "tay", "te" or "tee"
tomato
waffle ... "wawawawa"
water ... "wawa"


cold ... "co"
down ... she says this when I'm trying to put her in the highchair & she doesn't want to sit in it. she also says this when we're going down an escalator.
green ... "gee"
hot ... "ot"
purple ... "purpa"
red
up ... if she doesn't say it or sign it, she'll raise her arms up and whine to be picked up

bird
cat
dog ... she says "dag"
fish
flower ... "wawa"
frog
grass ... she says "ga" or "ge".
rabbit
sky ... she points up and says "ky".

backpack ... "baba"
ball ... she can say this
bath/bathtime
bed
blanket
book ... she can sorta say this, definitely can sign it
bowl ... she can say this
button .... "bado"
car
chair
clock
computer
crayon
cup
diaper
door
fork
hat ... "at"
jacket
key
lotion
pants
pen
remote ... she says "mo" and associates it with watching The Wiggles (sigh)
shirt
shoes
slippers
socks
sofa
spoon
straw
table
tv

Teatime ... I made a pot of Lupicia's Huang Jin Gui Oolong tea. It's not bad, but I much prefer the their 6227 Ming Jian Jin Xuan Oolong tea.

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M's aftrenoon naps

I can't believe it. This is the second day in a row where I have managed to get M to rest on my shoulder to fall asleep, and then I successfully placed her in her playpen for her nap. During yesterday's nap, she woke briefly & cried when I placed her in the playpen, but then settled down to sleep. Today she didn't wake and remained sleeping when I put her down. I hope this new trend will continue. I think I've found a sweet spot for her naps, right after her lunch around 12:30pm. Well we'll have to see whether I can get her to nap this way for the rest of the week. It's really too early to say... who knows, maybe these two days have been flukes.

Today, I am drinking Lupicia's 8516 Bravissimo tea. It's a pretty green tea with flower petals & fruit pieces. And it's yummy too! I'm doing pretty good with their teas so far, the only one which wasn't really my cup of tea was the darjeeling, but I think that had more to do with darjeeling type teas not being my thing rather than a negative comment about their tea. All their tea is of high quality.

M is trying to sing "twinkle twinkle little star" along with us. She says "aba" and "sky" when we sing "up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky..."

We went to the park yesterday. She's so funny. We start by spending 10-15 minutes in a swing. Then she wants me to pick her up. Then she points at the adjacent swing, indicating that she wants to swing in it. I'm thinking, "huh?" It's just like the swing I just took her out of! What's the difference? But M is funny that way. It's the same thing with the seesaw, she'll want to ride on one side, then she'll want the other side. We didn't have much fun on the slides yesterday. We would "stick" to the slide instead of sliding smoothly downwards. I think it had something to do with the weather, the cold, the fog, the moisture. So that wasn't too fun.

Well, I'm going to try to do a little knitting now that M is sleeping right now. She'll probably wake up in about 10 minutes. Give her a few minutes to slowly wake up, and then it'll be Wiggle time. Her favorite show is The Wiggles. I've got so many of the lyrics memorized now, and the tunes just run through my head even when I don't want them to. I'm currently working on another "mindless knitting" hat, and it is really mindless knitting, a simple checkerboard pattern with plain and seed stitch squares. I'm also working an a dishcloth which has Purl 2 Together through back loop, and I am reminded of while it has been almost two years since I last did a pattern with P2-tbl! And it is quite a biscuit to do in 100% cotton yarn....


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