Finally...some inkling that this is our child! She has really gotten into her Lego blocks recently. Chrys and I are Lego freaks, shall we say. Ryanne loves to "help" us build stuff with her little set. Of course, right now, her favorite thing is to sit on whatever I build when it's done. I think I started this by first building a slide. She could sort of slide down it and thought that was cooler than letting her little Pooh doll slide down it. Today, I built a chicken...she sat on it. *sigh*
The slide is her favorite thing at the park. There's one that has a central stair that goes to two slides. She loves it. She can easily climb the ladder and then gets to pick which side she goes down. This is no baby slide, either. She's a daredevil!
She is currently obsessed with facial features. Eyes, especially. Unfortunately, this means we get poked in the eye a lot. Oh well, at least she can identify features - eyes, nose, mouth, ears are reliable.
She has a couple of new animal noises - elephant (hand to the nose and raspberry) and pig (oi oi oi). She still gets birds and fish confused sometimes.
We went yesterday to preview a swim class. We have our trial lesson tomorrow and then may sign up for 4-8 sessions in the next month. They've got a good deal going on them for the month of May. Not sure if we'll continue after that. I guess it depends on when the pool across the street opens up.
We got some new family & friends pictures for her picture book. I put them in there last night. She is obsessed with her aunt Fyoire. She grabs the book and starts saying her (real) name - very clearly. She opens to the right picture. Then, she usually beeps her nose. She has also attempted the Cap'n's name. She beeps MK's nose. Others, she looks at, but those she's picked out for now. She has another book with grandmas and grandpas in it that she loves. Of course, she likes to identify her dada in those.
We've also entered the era of seemingly constant skinned knees. This led to her learning "owie" and wanting mehcine (no di yet) and banays (band-aids) on all of them. We target the freshest and get them treated each night before bed. She hasn't had a new on in a couple of days, but it's been a couple of days since we went to the park. This summer should be fun. She'll either get more careful or we'll need to invest in Neosporin and Band-aid.
Lilypie Kids Birthday tickers
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Saturday, April 09, 2005
No harm, no foul
Turns out, she must have a hard head. She was a little clingy on Friday, but showed no signs of any permanent damage. She ran and played her heart out at the park that afternoon and didn't seem any worse off than normal. I still feel bad, but at least she's ok.
She's adding a few new animal 'things'. The octopus makes a weird noise and paws her chest (popping and paws anything, but Chrys points out that I usually start with her chest). The monkey screams "aaaaaaaa" (not quite ee ee ee aa aa aa, but hey).
I also apparently use "I know" to calm her a lot. One day she and I were walking around and she got upset. I put her head on my shoulder and was "sssshhh"ing her. All of a sudden, she starts babbling "iknowiknowiknow" and got calmer. Now, she babbles it regularly when she's upset. I try not to abuse it, but I'm amused with myself and it's hard. I guess that's what toddlers are for...
She's adding a few new animal 'things'. The octopus makes a weird noise and paws her chest (popping and paws anything, but Chrys points out that I usually start with her chest). The monkey screams "aaaaaaaa" (not quite ee ee ee aa aa aa, but hey).
I also apparently use "I know" to calm her a lot. One day she and I were walking around and she got upset. I put her head on my shoulder and was "sssshhh"ing her. All of a sudden, she starts babbling "iknowiknowiknow" and got calmer. Now, she babbles it regularly when she's upset. I try not to abuse it, but I'm amused with myself and it's hard. I guess that's what toddlers are for...
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Amazing how a bad end trumps anything else that may have happened.
Ryanne hit her head today. Hard. We were at Baskin Robbins and she was crawling all over the booth and me, as usual. She had her body mostly in the booth and was putting her head on my knees. She was squirming a lot.
Next thing I know she was sliding off and I heard the thud before I could even react. She hit the top front of her head, in the arc between her eye and her ear. Left side, right above the hairline.
It seemed like she screamed immediately so I don't think she blacked out for even a second. She threw up as soon as I went to walk her outside because she was inconsolable. I just held her as she cried and I shook.
We brought her home and Chrys googled while she and I took a bath to smell better.
It seems that it's normal to throw up once, and concern happens if she does it again. She was able to answer simple questions - animal noises - correctly and without hesitation. She knew when we got home and was eager to play with the "deedong" (doorbell). She went through her normal bath and bed routine without hesitation. I think she's ok, but I still feel like the worst kind of person for letting her fall.
It will be 24 hours before we can be mostly reassured that she's going to be fine. In the meantime, I'm setting an alarm to check on her every couple of hours. Hopefully she'll sleep normally and I won't have to wake her. We're sleeping in the same room so we'll be more likely to hear her if anything goes weird.
Ryanne hit her head today. Hard. We were at Baskin Robbins and she was crawling all over the booth and me, as usual. She had her body mostly in the booth and was putting her head on my knees. She was squirming a lot.
Next thing I know she was sliding off and I heard the thud before I could even react. She hit the top front of her head, in the arc between her eye and her ear. Left side, right above the hairline.
It seemed like she screamed immediately so I don't think she blacked out for even a second. She threw up as soon as I went to walk her outside because she was inconsolable. I just held her as she cried and I shook.
We brought her home and Chrys googled while she and I took a bath to smell better.
It seems that it's normal to throw up once, and concern happens if she does it again. She was able to answer simple questions - animal noises - correctly and without hesitation. She knew when we got home and was eager to play with the "deedong" (doorbell). She went through her normal bath and bed routine without hesitation. I think she's ok, but I still feel like the worst kind of person for letting her fall.
It will be 24 hours before we can be mostly reassured that she's going to be fine. In the meantime, I'm setting an alarm to check on her every couple of hours. Hopefully she'll sleep normally and I won't have to wake her. We're sleeping in the same room so we'll be more likely to hear her if anything goes weird.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Today's cute fix
Ryanne's Easter Outfit
Ryanne with her first pineapple...man, was that good, even if she didn't like it once we cut it open
Ryanne and her Godmother
Ryanne in the snow in Boston
The rare sleeping toddler shot...
Monday, April 04, 2005
Seg fault (core dumped)
So many things I've been meaning to write about so here goes...
Ryanne says her name. She's either "eye-yah" or "eye-c". We're not 100% sure that she completely associates these words as her, but she has shown the ability to do 'roll call' - dada, mama, do itoe, eyec - so she's got some understanding of herself and who should be there.
The snapping alligator is now associated with her denim jacket (from Grandma G, remember buying that SO long ago?). We have always zipped her winter coats and now that she's in that one, it must be sealed for her to be comfortable. Well, I started asking her if she wanted it snapped when she'd go ballistic on the way out the door. After watching the video again (and again and again...) she knows that the alligator goes "snap, snap" so she now reaches her arms out and snaps when she wants her jacket closed. Pretty clever and much nicer than the fit.
She got a tricycle on Sunday (yikes...such a big girl). She can just reach the pedals, but not if she steers too hard right or left. It's got a little basket that she started putting things in immediately (blocks on Sunday). It has a handle on the rear that can steer the front with little effort. The front pedals can lock for pedal action or be free for us to just push her without worrying about her feet getting tangled up. The whole thing folds up nice and tidy so it sits in the corner of our entry way, easy to get to. We 'rode' to the park on Sunday afternoon and she had fun. She wanted to push it home, but it kept getting away from her (and both would hit the ground) so dada pulled it and I carried the big girl.
She had a rash of two word sentences at the park on Friday. She said "bye bye do(g)", "bye bye chay-uh (swing)", "chay-uh sit (to get into the swing)". That was more than we'd heard out of her in a long time. They were largely unprovoked. We've heard one more bye bye (object) since, but that's it. Amazing to hear the language develop.
She now sleeps (shhhhhh...) from 7:30 to about 6 every day. When she wakes up for the day, she just stands up and calls "mama". One day, I didn't go get her immediately. She yelled "mama" over and over. Eventually, progressed to "dada" for a bit, then alternating mama and dada. After those got no response, she threw in a "do itoe" and then quickly went back to "mama". I guess she decided that her uncle wasn't a valid choice after all.
She has also developed quite an attachment to her Elmo in the past couple of days. Saturday night, she kept waking up so I brought her to bed with me around 4:30 just so we could sleep. When we got to bed, she asked about "nyelno". I told her "mama had her. Elmo was still sleeping in her bed and everything would be fine". She calmed down and eventually fell asleep. Now, when she gets up in the morning, I go in to get her and she bends down to get Elmo before reaching her arms up to be picked up. Guess I know where I rank. She's also pretty attached to her Elmo phone in the car and it's hard to get her to leave it behind these days.
Lastly, I think (because it's late), she's developing an infatuation with shoes. She loves to get my shoes, put them on and try to walk around the house. She does this pretty much daily. Well, she also will go and get her nice shoes that we bought for her Cinderella dress. I think she likes the noise they make. She'll bring them in, want to put them on and then will run (clomping) throught the tiled areas of the house giggling like a mad woman. It's quite the racket. On Sunday, it was warmer than it had been, too. She was in her tennis shoes and sweating tons. She kept pulling her shoes and socks off, even wanted them off to eat lunch - yikes! I suggested we get her sandals if we could find some. They didn't have much of a selection, but she went nuts over all of the "sues" we looked at. We ended up with this garish pair of blue foamy sandals with writing and some little character on them. They are obviously Japanese...obviously. She was happy, though.
Ryanne says her name. She's either "eye-yah" or "eye-c". We're not 100% sure that she completely associates these words as her, but she has shown the ability to do 'roll call' - dada, mama, do itoe, eyec - so she's got some understanding of herself and who should be there.
The snapping alligator is now associated with her denim jacket (from Grandma G, remember buying that SO long ago?). We have always zipped her winter coats and now that she's in that one, it must be sealed for her to be comfortable. Well, I started asking her if she wanted it snapped when she'd go ballistic on the way out the door. After watching the video again (and again and again...) she knows that the alligator goes "snap, snap" so she now reaches her arms out and snaps when she wants her jacket closed. Pretty clever and much nicer than the fit.
She got a tricycle on Sunday (yikes...such a big girl). She can just reach the pedals, but not if she steers too hard right or left. It's got a little basket that she started putting things in immediately (blocks on Sunday). It has a handle on the rear that can steer the front with little effort. The front pedals can lock for pedal action or be free for us to just push her without worrying about her feet getting tangled up. The whole thing folds up nice and tidy so it sits in the corner of our entry way, easy to get to. We 'rode' to the park on Sunday afternoon and she had fun. She wanted to push it home, but it kept getting away from her (and both would hit the ground) so dada pulled it and I carried the big girl.
She had a rash of two word sentences at the park on Friday. She said "bye bye do(g)", "bye bye chay-uh (swing)", "chay-uh sit (to get into the swing)". That was more than we'd heard out of her in a long time. They were largely unprovoked. We've heard one more bye bye (object) since, but that's it. Amazing to hear the language develop.
She now sleeps (shhhhhh...) from 7:30 to about 6 every day. When she wakes up for the day, she just stands up and calls "mama". One day, I didn't go get her immediately. She yelled "mama" over and over. Eventually, progressed to "dada" for a bit, then alternating mama and dada. After those got no response, she threw in a "do itoe" and then quickly went back to "mama". I guess she decided that her uncle wasn't a valid choice after all.
She has also developed quite an attachment to her Elmo in the past couple of days. Saturday night, she kept waking up so I brought her to bed with me around 4:30 just so we could sleep. When we got to bed, she asked about "nyelno". I told her "mama had her. Elmo was still sleeping in her bed and everything would be fine". She calmed down and eventually fell asleep. Now, when she gets up in the morning, I go in to get her and she bends down to get Elmo before reaching her arms up to be picked up. Guess I know where I rank. She's also pretty attached to her Elmo phone in the car and it's hard to get her to leave it behind these days.
Lastly, I think (because it's late), she's developing an infatuation with shoes. She loves to get my shoes, put them on and try to walk around the house. She does this pretty much daily. Well, she also will go and get her nice shoes that we bought for her Cinderella dress. I think she likes the noise they make. She'll bring them in, want to put them on and then will run (clomping) throught the tiled areas of the house giggling like a mad woman. It's quite the racket. On Sunday, it was warmer than it had been, too. She was in her tennis shoes and sweating tons. She kept pulling her shoes and socks off, even wanted them off to eat lunch - yikes! I suggested we get her sandals if we could find some. They didn't have much of a selection, but she went nuts over all of the "sues" we looked at. We ended up with this garish pair of blue foamy sandals with writing and some little character on them. They are obviously Japanese...obviously. She was happy, though.
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