So last post I talked about Lorelei’s snarky response from me telling her whining isn’t funny. She replied “it is to me”. Well, to this collection we have now added, “yes, I know that”. Not expressing snark, but instead her rapid maturity, she told Pip, “When I was a tiny baby I said ‘Lorelei self’”. But my absolute favorite new utterance has to do with astrophysics. Seattle gets dark quite early in the fall. So for many months when Lorelei went to sleep it was light outside. Now it’s dark. She has insistently been asking why it’s dark at bedtime.
Lorelei: Why is it dark outside?
Pip: We’ve talked about that every day this week
Lorelei: ……..THE SUN IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET!!!
Amazing. Neverendingly cute. She’s appropriately controlling for a 2 year old, not just with us and Moriarty, but with the chickens. She’s tantruming more but that’s normal. She’s also getting much better at asking for things and saying please (this has required me to solicit this many many times a day but it’s working).
Moriarty is flying through his online school curriculum. I was concerned he’s not actually paying attention, but he’s learning stuff. :-) Debbie does most of the teacher role but I like staying involved. More exciting to me is that he’s sounding out words on his own, in normal life. He’s just reading stuff. It’s AMAZING. At the moment he is searching a database of Lego sets and keeps asking me how to spell words like firefighter and helicopter. Instead I’m making him sound it out and support but not tell him (except the weird stuff like ght, of course). And he’s killing it. He’s lost his other front tooth but is insufficiently lispy. sigh
Lorelei’s growth, beyond linguistically, has been vertical. She’s getting so tall. Part of being tall is that things she used to be able to walk under, she can’t walk under. For a while now she’s been hitting her head on the table. She also routinely hit her head getting out of her booster chair (we stopped strapping her in many months ago). Pip and I instinctively put our hand between her head and the table. A couple weeks ago I noticed she very intentionally avoided the table on her way down. And when she has to crawl under the table to get something she looks up and backs out low so she doesn’t hit her head anymore. HER PROPRIOCEPTION HAS ADVANCED! I’m oddly excited about this. I guess I think it extends to other body parts and incoming physical capabilities. We’ll see.
Moriarty is expressing his curiosity and daring spirit through food these days. Beyond the absurd volume of chicken nuggets he wants to eat, he’s invented a Moriarty Special sandwich. It consists of bread, raspberry jam, turkey, spicy pepperoni, and sharp cheddar. And last but definitely not least, he gave me the biggest gift in a long time. He played ukulele while I played guitar. I’ve been trying to get this happening for years! He has a high quality uke his grandparents gave him a couple years ago but his fingers were very weak and he couldn’t shape the chords. I tried a few times but he wasn’t interested. Last week we played Wheels on the Bus together. It only has 2 chords and he was able to keep up. Best gift ever.
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