Scene: Marli playing with Daigoro and Kenshin on a quiet afternoon.
Daigoro looks at Kenshin, then at Marli.
Daigoro: A man bring him?
Marli: Kenshin? No. He was in mommy's tummy. A man did not bring him. Mommy brought him.
Daigoro (puzzled): Mommy's tummy?
Marli: Yes.
Daigoro looks at baby, shakes his head.
Daigoro: Nooooo. Man bring him.
Marli: Mommy brought him. Kenshin was in mommy's tummy.
Daigoro looks skeptical
Daigoro: Noooo. (smiles) A man bring him.
[Ahhhh... sex education for toddlers]
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Small Firsts
Yesterday, while playing with Marli in the evening, Kenshin laughed for the first time (I at least while I have heard him). He has giggled in his sleep, but I haven't heard him laugh while fully conscious before. I think Marli has heard him laugh before, but I'm not sure.
A good milestone to mark - another step in the beginnings of humour.
Daigoro's language continues to blossom. He's speaking in very good sentences (for a toddler) most of the time.
Marli commented the other day that Daigoro also evidenced a fairly advanced concept (in terms of two years and four months development levels). He was watching TV and saw a commercial for Ontario Place. He pointed and said "I want to go there."
Marli, with much more formal child psychology training than I (well, with me having none, that wouldn't be hard, but she actually has some) says that being able to identify a conceptual place (such as an image from a book or a commercial) and then intuiting that a real place exists based on that image is "advanced".
Makes sense to me.
Not much time to wax eloquent these days, so just trying to mark milestones as they come.
A good milestone to mark - another step in the beginnings of humour.
Daigoro's language continues to blossom. He's speaking in very good sentences (for a toddler) most of the time.
Marli commented the other day that Daigoro also evidenced a fairly advanced concept (in terms of two years and four months development levels). He was watching TV and saw a commercial for Ontario Place. He pointed and said "I want to go there."
Marli, with much more formal child psychology training than I (well, with me having none, that wouldn't be hard, but she actually has some) says that being able to identify a conceptual place (such as an image from a book or a commercial) and then intuiting that a real place exists based on that image is "advanced".
Makes sense to me.
Not much time to wax eloquent these days, so just trying to mark milestones as they come.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Happy Cad-nada d-Day!
No, not a typo, just my best effort at replicating my son's jubilant expressions on Canada Day this past weekend.
In preparation for the holiday, I had been pointing at Canadian flags and saying "Canada" or "Canada Flag". Daigoro picked up on it soon enough, and by the time we visited a nearby park for the festivities on Sunday, July 1st, he was able to point at flags and announce proudly "Cad-nada!"
When a volunteer gave me a small Canada flag "lapel pin" (though who exactly uses them on lapels anymore, I don't know) he examined it closely and beamed "Cad-nada!".
He had the opporunity to sit in a firefighting pumper truck and use a firefigher's special flashlight (all smiles) as well become the proud owner of a pint-sized plastic firefighter's helmet. Later he chowed down on an adult-sized hot dog (eating about a fifth of it) and ran about gleefully in the park with a balloon-sword from a friendly clown.
Kenshin has started biting (well, "gumming", but I'm sure it's pretty painful in any case) while feeding with Marli. Hopefully he won't be bad as Daigoro was, but Marli is pretty sure he will be as bad or worse.
In preparation for the holiday, I had been pointing at Canadian flags and saying "Canada" or "Canada Flag". Daigoro picked up on it soon enough, and by the time we visited a nearby park for the festivities on Sunday, July 1st, he was able to point at flags and announce proudly "Cad-nada!"
When a volunteer gave me a small Canada flag "lapel pin" (though who exactly uses them on lapels anymore, I don't know) he examined it closely and beamed "Cad-nada!".
He had the opporunity to sit in a firefighting pumper truck and use a firefigher's special flashlight (all smiles) as well become the proud owner of a pint-sized plastic firefighter's helmet. Later he chowed down on an adult-sized hot dog (eating about a fifth of it) and ran about gleefully in the park with a balloon-sword from a friendly clown.
Kenshin has started biting (well, "gumming", but I'm sure it's pretty painful in any case) while feeding with Marli. Hopefully he won't be bad as Daigoro was, but Marli is pretty sure he will be as bad or worse.
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