Here are some things from the past while, that I’ve been writing down.
Tia: (to Nem-Nem, while they play peek-a-boo) You’re going to be Superwoman in just three years. You’ll be flying around doing mathematics.
Tia made a red cape and eye mask costume for Mago (just for play, she says, not Halloween). He stood on our bed one morning to show it off.
Mago: I’m a bad guy! .. wait, I have to put down my sipee cup.
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(Attempting over and over to place a star shape in a wooden puzzle, *sighs*) Too work.
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(At random during the day) This is my treasure-hunting thumb.
Tia says he made that last up partly from a Blue’s Clues episode.
He calls very thickly frosted [me: disgusting!] cookies “Cookies on each tuver” (Cookies on each other) because it looks to him like two stacked cookies.
Tia has introduced me to Love and Logic (this sentence may be taken out of context), an audio program delineating so much wisdom on child rearing. Incidentally, what I have tried of it is positive and works and I’ll be listening to the whole thing. She checks these out from the Parent Education Resource Center at the Orem Library. The cover of the set for early childhood has a cartoon of an exhausted, bedraggled woman with two infants in tow. The library case for it opened and spilled the CD case out one day, and Mago looked at it.
Mago: Mama, is that ‘care for me’?,
A few days ago:
Mago: Daddy?
Me: Yes.
Mago: Feed to me.
Me: Feed to you? Do you mean read to you?
Mago: Read to me. .. (smiles) Feed and read!
Nem-nem beams at us and at people all the time. When she first sees me in the morning or coming home from work and I smile at her broadly (as I can only help myself to do with a baby who is my daughter), she beams and coyly tucks her head down and her arms up to her chest. Things she says:
Ppphhhhbt! Pppbbbbhht! Heh-pubbbbbppt!
Gggh!
Hoo!
(Laughing) Heh.
Hii.
Eeh!
Eeeyoo!
Nem-nem is also frequently rolling from her back to her side and tummy, less often from her tummy to her back, and sometimes does a swimming motion on her tummy, trying to start to crawl.