Relaxed
Posted by Katherine on March 7th, 2010Blue’s Clues is on.
Seventy-first Weekiversary
Posted by Katherine on August 9th, 2009
Since Pat’s monthly post last week, Ted has added “Zoe” and “kitty” to the six words he was saying last month. He says Zoe clear as day. He seems to be starting with the harder words first… He could say teeth before he could say mama. And he says, “ticka ticka ticka,” while tickling his own belly.
He is also starting with the harder, more obscure animal noises, llama, monkey, donkey, and of course sheep, but he finally says, “moo!” I mean to me, moo seems way easier than hee haw. For the rooster he says, “cock-a.” He doesn’t quite have the -doodle-doo yet. And occasionally he will tell me that the dog says, “arf, arf, arf.”
He will tell you that a car says, “beep beep” and the train says, “toot toot.” He loves pointing out cars. I took him to Marbles Kids Museum, which is in downtown Raleigh and let me tell you- there are a lot of “cars” in the city.
He also loves playing the drums and loves drumming all over the house with anything that resembles a drumstick. Or his bare hands if a drumstick isn’t handy. I don’t know if it is just an intense phase or if he is going to be a musician. Every time he hears a bit of music or someone says the word “dance,” he starts dancing.
Also new this week, he knows where his knees are, as well as my knees. And when I pointed to my arm tonight and told him the word he repeated it like three times, trying to get the sound right. I didn’t add it to the list of words he knows because that was the first time he said it and sometimes he will just say a random word once and never repeat it.
His newest sign this week is “help.” Unfortunately he mostly only does the sign when I say “help” instead of just making the sign to actually get help. Hopefully he will figure it out quickly that signing help is going to get me to help him much faster and happier than his previous method of whining in frustration.
Another thing Ted loves is feeding Zoe cat treats. We had to put a child lock on the drawer where we keep them. He will give her a whole bunch and we will tell him she is all done, but he keeps signing, “more, more.” Zoe is definitely enjoying this new skill. Also Ted seems to know that they are just for the cats and never tries to eat them himself or feed them to Pat or me.
Lately I have been looking at our cookbooks, Deceptively Delicious and The Sneaky Chef, just to get ideas for healthy things I could cook for our family. Really Ted loves vegetables and fruit, so right now I don’t have to worry about hiding them in other foods… its the other foods he is more suspicious of. One of the key ideas in both books is that toddlers don’t like trying new foods. I decided I had better start upping Ted’s variety now, while he is still accepting of them, so that there will be less “new” foods for him when (and if) he hits that phase. So this week he had olives, summer squash, quinoa, salsa, zucchini, and whole wheat crackers with cheddar cheese.
Thirty-first Weekiversary
Posted by Katherine on November 2nd, 2008This Friday was Ted’s first Halloween. When we got Ted his pumpkin costume, I knew I had to get a picture with Dad in his pumpkin costume from 1999.
We got a lot of Trick or Treaters, though I don’t think we got as many as last year because many of our neighbors weren’t giving out candy this year. We did have a hay wagon pulled by a tractor bring a ton of kids. We tried to take a picture of them but it came out really dark.
Then we felt the need to get Zoe involved in the festivities.
Other goings-on this week included a first carousel ride and kiddie train ride. We went to a fancy park in Raleigh with a few other moms and babies Ted’s age. He seemed to really enjoy it all. He fell asleep immediately after the train ride on the way to the swings. Tired him right out.
His latest food is applesauce. I was thinking I would make most of Ted’s food, but I quickly have succumbed to the ease of buying it instead. So far we have been getting him organic, but they unfortunately don’t seem to have as many different kinds as they do of the regular.
Stunt Cats
Posted by Patrick on November 1st, 2008One of my web design freelance clients started selling cat treats, but was short of cats to demonstrate the product. Luckily we had to cats just hanging around here, ready to perform.
Here’s a video of the cats, hopped up on catnip and cat toys.
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