There's a person in there

Ryanne spent most of Friday playing with Weebleville. Its batteries are mostly dead and I'm still trying to decide if this is good or bad. She's not all that interested in the music, except to play with turning it on and off. Mostly, she likes the little town and the people and putting the people in the doors and slides and turntables, etc. I think the Little People she's getting for Christmas will be a big hit, suddenly. She must have spent an hour moving them around and playing by herself. Amazing...

She's also working on "diaper". I left her with Chrys today while L'il Bro went to the dentist. At one point he says she started pointing and they ended up in the bedroom changing her "dido". He repeated diaper and they went through various renditions. By the time I got home to the stinky diaper, she was up to "dider". This will come in QUITE handy.

She's also starting to differentiate her signs for "eat" and "water" which makes my life easier. "Eat" appears to be all of the fingers at the mouth, whereas "water" is one finger. She is still quite capable of signing for "milk" and does it often. She also has a variety of ways of signing "more", but all get the point across.

Turns out you can buy sand toys at the 100¥ store at the train station so she now has 2 buckets, some shovels and some molds. Cost 200¥ for 2 sets. We went to the park today so she could play with them and she had a great time. She dug in the dirt, ate some sand, played on the slides with Chrys, even went down sitting up many, many times. What really got me was that, despite the fun digging in and touching the dirt, there was NO way she was going to sit in it. I guess it's still too dirty. Nevertheless, all in all, it was a good time.

She's finally starting to play with stacking things and has managed to stack 2 objects a couple of times. There's nothing really repeatable, but I'm glad she's starting to work on those skills.

Oh, and everything is a purse. If it's got a handle or an opening, it will be on the arm. She loves my bracelets and watch and this canva Hello Kitty bag we picked up for 500¥ that now holds all of her sand toys. She loved toting that through the park...so cute to watch. She'll even sling my purse strap on her arm or around her neck and drag it through the apartment. She may be a girlie girl after all...who knows.