Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Weekend


I had a very busy weekend. In addition to Thanksgiving dinner and making ornaments (the previous two posts, I ...
Shared my toys with "Boppa"(Grandpa)

Rode on the carousel again

Put myself in a box

Climbed a ladder (Mommy was not very pleased with this accomplishment)

Sat in a drawer

Built a tower of elephants

Had a chat with Darth Vader

Played with Legos some more.

Making salt dough ornaments

First we mix up the ingredients

Then we roll the dough and cut out shapes


Look - stars!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Working on my costume

With my cousins



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Legos

Playing with my Lego zoo
I built a car for my monkey






Thursday, November 15, 2012

Accomplishments

WORDS (60): Vivi says the following words regularly:
Animals: Monkey (AhAh), Duck, Dog, Cow, Elephant (pppphh), Lion (roar), cat (meow), bear, fish, snake (ssssss).
Names: Mama, Dada, Elmo, Jenny, Gina, Barbara, Enara, Aina, (teachers/students in her class - note does not say Vivi yet)
Foods: Cheese, milk, water (agua), pasta, orange, banana, apple
Body parts/clothes: Eye, teeth, hat, shoes 
Other Nouns: swings, trees, truck, rock
Verbs/actions: I walk, up down, nurse, tickle tickle, row row row (sing), sit.
Other: more, all done, help, outside, yes, no, mine, ow, hi, wow, night night, blue, yellow, two, gee (letter), hot, right there, what's that?, off, uh-oh, hot

COLORS: Identifies the following colors pretty well: Yellow, Blue, Red, Green, and sometimes orange.

LETTERS: Recognizes a few letters (I had no idea until I asked her to find some letters today): A, O, L, V. (she calls letters collectively "gee")

NUMBERS: Can hand me 1 vs 2 blocks (three is more than two - a lot more than 2). Pretends to count when asked "how many X are there?"

GROSS MOTOR: walks, runs, marches, walks on knees, somersaults, walks backwards, spins.

DRAWING: draws circlish and linish shapes (calls them all "Elmo"), fills the whole space of the page/chalkboard,

BUILDING: stacks blocks 6 high

Nov 15

I helped Mommy make crepes for breakfast.
Honing my observation skills.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tell me a story

Entertaining Vivi in the car almost always consists of singing -- a lot. Yesterday, I tried a new tactic.

Mommy: Vivi, can you tell me a story?
Vivi: Yeah!
Mommy: Who is the story about?
Vivi: Elmo!
Mommy: Elmo? Anyone else?
Vivi: AhAh (Monkey)
Mommy: Elmo and Monkey. Okay. What did they do?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)
Mommy: And then what?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)
Mommy: Ohh... Can you tell me another story?
Vivi: Yeah!
Mommy: Who is this story about?
Vivi: Elmo AhAh
Mommy: Elmo and Monkey? what did they do?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)....



Monday, November 12, 2012

The carousel

Up and down, up and down, up and down...

Sunday, November 11, 2012

44 days and counting...

Ho ho ho ...
Ribbon

Decorations

Somersaults --- on the hard floor.

A marathon

A marathon ran right by our house.
My teacher was one of the runners. Go, Jenny, Go!


I can run too (trying to catch the runners way up in the distance)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Shopping, squishing, and stamping

I'll do the shopping. (That's a cribbage game she put in the shopping basket she found). 
Bananas are good to eat squish between my fingers
Making hand prints!

Friday, November 2, 2012

Potato noses

A potato can never have too many noses. This one has four - and there's another in her hand.



Monday, October 29, 2012

Little Elmo

Trick-or-treater in training. I went to a place where kids could trick or treat before Halloween - Mommy thought I needed to practice. They offered me candy, but I took the apple (that might have really been just for decoration) instead. I'm eating the apple in this photo.
Don't I make the cutest Elmo you've ever seen?


I'll probably be getting lots of candy so I'll need my wagon.
Elmo at Sunset

October pics

At the pumpkin patch

On a big pile of straw

Carving a pumpkin
Mess!

At an elementary school Fall festival.

So what are we all doing here in the corner?

Nice goat!

Friday, October 26, 2012

My buddy Jane

A week or so ago, we went to the pumpkin patch - Jane was there.

Watch out! I'm going to get you!

Squishes for Jane.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

this weekend

Grandma came for the day - I introduced her to my favorite friends.

We went to the aquarium. I touched the seastars.

My friend turned 2.