Friday, May 4, 2007

Mer and Elaine's favorite things

Here's Part I in what I would like to make a periodic update, because I now know that often it's the non baby-book-milestones that are the ones you wish you could remember later, after the sleep deprivation.

Elaine's favorite things (at 5 weeks old):

  • Nursing and snuggling with Mommy
  • Looking at: the dark border on the quilt above her changing table; sunny windows with the blind closed
  • Staring at the person holding her, and occasionally smiling

Elaine is learning to:
  • Find someone talking to her who is not holding her
  • Take, and keep, a pacifier when she wants one
  • Coo

Meredith's favorite things (3 years and 8 mo old):
  • Being pushed on the swings and playing in the sandbox with her neighbors before and after dinner
  • Pretending to: be a princess; go on a rocket ship vacation; be a family of some certain kind of animal; play doctor
  • Going to weekly "music class" with Mommy
  • Best friend Maren at preschool: both playing with her and telling us what Maren does and likes
  • Conversing about science topics with Daddy
  • Listening to and talking about songs on the iPod

Meredith is learning to:
  • Add and subtract numbers less than 10, using her fingers
  • Get dressed and undressed completely by herself
  • Take deep breaths when she's frustrated
  • Associate letters and their sounds to start sounding out words

-JRR

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