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thanate...which sounds like it ought to be a euphemism for something, but actually it's a line from Fox in Socks. I find I am too good at Fox in Socks, as I only occasionally leave out words when Someone starts trying to close the book mid-sentence, rather than getting entirely muddled by the tongue twisters. Also I continue to find Dr Seuss worlds deeply creepy and disturbing-- they're full of pushy people and very unsettling physics, not to mention substances like oobleck-- and after half a week of "Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms," my subconscious has hooked that but up with the drums in Moria. One assumes that the latter were not actually played by pigs, but who knows, really. But on the whole I find Fox in Socks pretty entertaining, and the Megatherium likes any book she can wander about with, and things with a good balance of words & pictures per page are just a bonus.
The Megatherium has gone back to hoarding her words, but she's babbling madly and has picked up two more signs. HUNGRY, which I haven't even used recently, and CRACKER, now that she's figured out how to find her elbow. We're working up to GRAPES. Anatomy games are become fun, and she excels at finding noses-- on herself, on us, on pictures in books (not always human), but Raggedy Ann (whose nose is a red triangle) still presents an occasional challenge. The cat is less enthusiastic about having his nose found, but he made his displeasure known in a sufficiently pointed but non-damaging manner.
Sand box, pointing to rabbits, and waving at dogs are also excellent games, and she's got much better about sitting still to listen to books read, and pays attention to the pictures. Of course, then she does stuff like joyously snapping my crochet hook in half. It was a cheap plastic one I got for free years ago, but I was also trying to use it to make a wedding present with, so, less than helpful.
This is how my child chooses to sleep.
The Chair of Her Dreams.
Meanwhile, I keep meaning to post things with actual thinking to them, and they dissolve like the ephemera they are in the face of migratory naptime schedules (we're transitioning from 10am/2pm to a single nap at 1pm, but scheduling on the ground is always a little messier than it sounds) and peremptory demands to go outside. And while I was entirely ignoring the calendar and flittering about being stressed about paint fumes (the bedroom ceiling is fixed, but has only just left off toxifying me) like the canary I am, my subconscious apparently kept track of what day it was and popped up with several hours of 3am insomnia for the anniversary of my father's death. In the middle of the random mental monologues to various people-not-present (what, don't you spend unwilling hours of wakefulness explaining the middles of things to random people?) I came to the realization that I have managed to plug into an awesome support network for writing-related things (not that I'm generally good at making proper use of it) but can't manage to figure out how to find a local babysitter even when someone gives me helpful advice on how to do it.
Some ways I fail at being a grown-up, and it's also occurred to me recently that at 35, there is not only no further up to grow, but the next societal milestone is the beginning of "old." Heh. (Admittedly, with an actual child around I am a little closer to outgrowing the habit of addressing myself as "kiddo" or "girl.")
The Megatherium has gone back to hoarding her words, but she's babbling madly and has picked up two more signs. HUNGRY, which I haven't even used recently, and CRACKER, now that she's figured out how to find her elbow. We're working up to GRAPES. Anatomy games are become fun, and she excels at finding noses-- on herself, on us, on pictures in books (not always human), but Raggedy Ann (whose nose is a red triangle) still presents an occasional challenge. The cat is less enthusiastic about having his nose found, but he made his displeasure known in a sufficiently pointed but non-damaging manner.
Sand box, pointing to rabbits, and waving at dogs are also excellent games, and she's got much better about sitting still to listen to books read, and pays attention to the pictures. Of course, then she does stuff like joyously snapping my crochet hook in half. It was a cheap plastic one I got for free years ago, but I was also trying to use it to make a wedding present with, so, less than helpful.
This is how my child chooses to sleep.
The Chair of Her Dreams.
Meanwhile, I keep meaning to post things with actual thinking to them, and they dissolve like the ephemera they are in the face of migratory naptime schedules (we're transitioning from 10am/2pm to a single nap at 1pm, but scheduling on the ground is always a little messier than it sounds) and peremptory demands to go outside. And while I was entirely ignoring the calendar and flittering about being stressed about paint fumes (the bedroom ceiling is fixed, but has only just left off toxifying me) like the canary I am, my subconscious apparently kept track of what day it was and popped up with several hours of 3am insomnia for the anniversary of my father's death. In the middle of the random mental monologues to various people-not-present (what, don't you spend unwilling hours of wakefulness explaining the middles of things to random people?) I came to the realization that I have managed to plug into an awesome support network for writing-related things (not that I'm generally good at making proper use of it) but can't manage to figure out how to find a local babysitter even when someone gives me helpful advice on how to do it.
Some ways I fail at being a grown-up, and it's also occurred to me recently that at 35, there is not only no further up to grow, but the next societal milestone is the beginning of "old." Heh. (Admittedly, with an actual child around I am a little closer to outgrowing the habit of addressing myself as "kiddo" or "girl.")
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Date: 2014-05-22 03:52 pm (UTC)Every time I get to where I used to think "grown up" is, it...isn't. I think it may just be a moving goalpost. Which is alarming but also reassuring--I suspect that if you asked, say, Sherwood she would tell you that there is in fact further up to grow from 35.
Also, I like the way the Megatherium's personality comes through in these pictures. I hope to meet her someday! (Will you be at WFC?)
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Date: 2014-05-22 07:01 pm (UTC)There are different shades of grown up, of course, and ideally one doesn't really stop learning/maturing. But there's definitely a point where any "well, I'm not old enough to X [without help/permission from a real adult]" insecurities rise asymptotically past dumb.
We're going to be at 4th St en masse; I will be at WFC, but it has not yet been determined how the child-wrangling arrangements are going to go. (The art of toddler photography involves a lot of picking the action shots that are the most in focus; there is nothing *but* personality.)