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thanate*The Megatherium remains obsessed with hats and hair; I am making her a fish hat, which she is very excited about. We also went out and bought her some brightly colored hair ties and she is rocking the toddler antennae look.
*She is also bidding fair to horse-mad already (though other animals are good too.) There was a brief pony ride at the end of August which she still claims to remember fondly (& does things like point out pictures of other things riding on ponies and then points to herself. This appears to be the pre-vocal toddler for "I rode a pony!")
*Have traded the SC house with attendant mortgage for a significant chunk of the short-term savings account, so we're trying not to spend frivolous money for a couple months. Which means of course that I immediately discovered this pattern, and the matching girls' version and am vaguely pining after them.
*Up to five vocal words from her toddlerosity: Ma-ma, Da-da (or occasionally a very careful "Daddy," but not upon request), (c)at, dog (sounds like "ugh"), and hair, tho she's having a hard time with the r. We've had a couple more things once or twice but not recurrent. If everyone's feeling patient you can talk her through sounding out words one phoneme at a time, but she's just not that interested in combining them. Stubborn child is stubborn; helpful mommy is far too good at figuring out what she wants.
*In news of the weird, there's reportedly another girl just down the road who was born the same day as the Megatherium; I've spoken with her father briefly and we just missed them going by on a walk last week, but the toddlers have not yet managed to make contact.
*After stupid schedule incompatibilities I finally contacted the WFC people and discovered that they are happy to issue complimentary badges to children of the smaller persuasion, so the Megatherium and I are going to be there at least for a bit of Thursday afternoon (she with a badge that says "Megatherium" on it, even!) before repairing to Grandma's for overnight and Friday babysitting.
*Naptime pursuits include some haphazard weeding of messy meadow bits, collecting useful seedbank to share with Masonville Cove, working on a crow coat for M's hallowe'en costume, re-reading Raksura books (after the first of the novella pairs came out...), and starting an ello because people on twitter kept going on about it. Then I got there & everyone I know seems to be waiting to see what everyone else is going to do with it, so I started posting obscure nursery rhymes.
*Still both intorvert-stressed and lonely for other adult conversation, phoey, but doing a little better with some of the other loose ends. Am "playing" a thing that calls itself HabitRPG in which you gain gold/stats for completing the task lists you fill out, & it works well with my tendencies to prioritize externally imposed deadlines and my compulsive dislike of losing hit points ever. It's all self-set and self-reporting, so it does require a certain intrinsic honesty to do any good whatsoever, but if having a ticky box helps to remind you to clean the cat box (or that yes, it really does need to be done tonight instead of tomorrow, or that if you clean that cat box you'll get another gold coin...) then it might be worth looking into.
*After a period where two naps merged into one nap around lunchtime, we seem to be easing back to a 1:30 or 2pm kind of naptime and maybe one day it will be safe to drive more than 10 minutes around lunchtime to try to meet up with people for lunch again.
*One day I may also reclaim the coffee table from the seas of picture books that come and go across its surface.
*She is also bidding fair to horse-mad already (though other animals are good too.) There was a brief pony ride at the end of August which she still claims to remember fondly (& does things like point out pictures of other things riding on ponies and then points to herself. This appears to be the pre-vocal toddler for "I rode a pony!")
*Have traded the SC house with attendant mortgage for a significant chunk of the short-term savings account, so we're trying not to spend frivolous money for a couple months. Which means of course that I immediately discovered this pattern, and the matching girls' version and am vaguely pining after them.
*Up to five vocal words from her toddlerosity: Ma-ma, Da-da (or occasionally a very careful "Daddy," but not upon request), (c)at, dog (sounds like "ugh"), and hair, tho she's having a hard time with the r. We've had a couple more things once or twice but not recurrent. If everyone's feeling patient you can talk her through sounding out words one phoneme at a time, but she's just not that interested in combining them. Stubborn child is stubborn; helpful mommy is far too good at figuring out what she wants.
*In news of the weird, there's reportedly another girl just down the road who was born the same day as the Megatherium; I've spoken with her father briefly and we just missed them going by on a walk last week, but the toddlers have not yet managed to make contact.
*After stupid schedule incompatibilities I finally contacted the WFC people and discovered that they are happy to issue complimentary badges to children of the smaller persuasion, so the Megatherium and I are going to be there at least for a bit of Thursday afternoon (she with a badge that says "Megatherium" on it, even!) before repairing to Grandma's for overnight and Friday babysitting.
*Naptime pursuits include some haphazard weeding of messy meadow bits, collecting useful seedbank to share with Masonville Cove, working on a crow coat for M's hallowe'en costume, re-reading Raksura books (after the first of the novella pairs came out...), and starting an ello because people on twitter kept going on about it. Then I got there & everyone I know seems to be waiting to see what everyone else is going to do with it, so I started posting obscure nursery rhymes.
*Still both intorvert-stressed and lonely for other adult conversation, phoey, but doing a little better with some of the other loose ends. Am "playing" a thing that calls itself HabitRPG in which you gain gold/stats for completing the task lists you fill out, & it works well with my tendencies to prioritize externally imposed deadlines and my compulsive dislike of losing hit points ever. It's all self-set and self-reporting, so it does require a certain intrinsic honesty to do any good whatsoever, but if having a ticky box helps to remind you to clean the cat box (or that yes, it really does need to be done tonight instead of tomorrow, or that if you clean that cat box you'll get another gold coin...) then it might be worth looking into.
*After a period where two naps merged into one nap around lunchtime, we seem to be easing back to a 1:30 or 2pm kind of naptime and maybe one day it will be safe to drive more than 10 minutes around lunchtime to try to meet up with people for lunch again.
*One day I may also reclaim the coffee table from the seas of picture books that come and go across its surface.
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Date: 2014-10-13 12:21 pm (UTC)