Fade (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bladeville) wrote,@ 2007-12-13 09:11:00 |
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Please, thank you, bricks, and clothes.
I took a pencil off Elly this morning and instead of crying or anything she said her word for thank you. She says please and thank you pretty well now, a recent development. Pronounced a little more like tea sometimes tease, and thang sometimes thang ne. It's pretty cute.
Elly is currently learning about bricks. We have some bricks we brought with us from england, so I don't know if americans have them. They look a lot like lego bricks but are a few times bigger. Elly can put a small square one in her mouth but there's no what she could try to swallow it, it's a little too big for that, so it's much safer than lego. The thing is though that no matter how many times I try to show ber that the lumpy top of one must go into the open bottom of another she still takes them back from me and puts them bottom to bottom then gets really angry that they wont stick like when I do it.
She's just given up on the bricks and started on trying to put a zip up hoody on. The problem is that it's a lot harder when you don't realize that there are right and wrong ways of doing it. Currently she has an arm in a sleave but her armpit is where her wrist should be and her fingers are where her body should be plus it's upside down. XD
I offer her help by saying things like "Do you need help? Mummy help?" and sometimes she brings to me whatever she is having trouble with. But if she doesn't want my help I generaly leave her alone. I'd rather her just be fustrated with whatever the problem is than to get angry with me too and still not have worked it out. I kinda want her to learn that if she ever does wnat my help she can always ask and I'll be there for her but if she want's to slug it out alone I can respect her wishes. I believe it's going to be good for her self confidence. Especialy if occasinaly when I don't help she does manage to work things out herself. I do however offer multiple time if she refuses me, since sometimes she does change her mind.
Elly had an accident yesterday and ended up splitting her lip open a bit. She can climb in and out of her booster seat at the table on her own. But for some reason , Charly descided to help Elly in yesterday, but Charly isn't really strong enough for the meathod she was using, so Elly got hurt. It's not the last time Elly's going to get hurt though, and even though it bled quite a bit her teeth are fine and all you can see of it not is a cherry red lump on her lip.
I finaly finished my first scarf. It took about... two and a half weaks maybe? Maybe only two. I dunno. I screwed up a lot at the begining and I found the actualy instrustions when I was about thee inches away from the end and it turned out I was supposed to do it a little differently asides from the fact that it's not as wide as it should be which I knew anyway and kinda did on purpouse. But I like it as it is anyway so I'm not going to redo it, I'll just try it properly some other time with a different project.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v
I'm already onto my next project. Another scarf but this one Ive had to put beads on and am having to learn to lace a pattern together with. It's kinda complicated and somethign I definatly can't do with Elly around. Damn >>
I took a pencil off Elly this morning and instead of crying or anything she said her word for thank you. She says please and thank you pretty well now, a recent development. Pronounced a little more like tea sometimes tease, and thang sometimes thang ne. It's pretty cute.
Elly is currently learning about bricks. We have some bricks we brought with us from england, so I don't know if americans have them. They look a lot like lego bricks but are a few times bigger. Elly can put a small square one in her mouth but there's no what she could try to swallow it, it's a little too big for that, so it's much safer than lego. The thing is though that no matter how many times I try to show ber that the lumpy top of one must go into the open bottom of another she still takes them back from me and puts them bottom to bottom then gets really angry that they wont stick like when I do it.
She's just given up on the bricks and started on trying to put a zip up hoody on. The problem is that it's a lot harder when you don't realize that there are right and wrong ways of doing it. Currently she has an arm in a sleave but her armpit is where her wrist should be and her fingers are where her body should be plus it's upside down. XD
I offer her help by saying things like "Do you need help? Mummy help?" and sometimes she brings to me whatever she is having trouble with. But if she doesn't want my help I generaly leave her alone. I'd rather her just be fustrated with whatever the problem is than to get angry with me too and still not have worked it out. I kinda want her to learn that if she ever does wnat my help she can always ask and I'll be there for her but if she want's to slug it out alone I can respect her wishes. I believe it's going to be good for her self confidence. Especialy if occasinaly when I don't help she does manage to work things out herself. I do however offer multiple time if she refuses me, since sometimes she does change her mind.
Elly had an accident yesterday and ended up splitting her lip open a bit. She can climb in and out of her booster seat at the table on her own. But for some reason , Charly descided to help Elly in yesterday, but Charly isn't really strong enough for the meathod she was using, so Elly got hurt. It's not the last time Elly's going to get hurt though, and even though it bled quite a bit her teeth are fine and all you can see of it not is a cherry red lump on her lip.
I finaly finished my first scarf. It took about... two and a half weaks maybe? Maybe only two. I dunno. I screwed up a lot at the begining and I found the actualy instrustions when I was about thee inches away from the end and it turned out I was supposed to do it a little differently asides from the fact that it's not as wide as it should be which I knew anyway and kinda did on purpouse. But I like it as it is anyway so I'm not going to redo it, I'll just try it properly some other time with a different project.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v
I'm already onto my next project. Another scarf but this one Ive had to put beads on and am having to learn to lace a pattern together with. It's kinda complicated and somethign I definatly can't do with Elly around. Damn >>
