Conversation Piece

When I dropped my cell phone a few weeks ago, it fell apart permanently. I got a very basic replacement phone, which does little more than make calls, but the screen lights up when you press a key and it is clearly an important toy that needs frequent attention. Little RR understands such things. She calls my phone the "Daddy widget".

Tonight while trying to put her to sleep, I was pleased to see how she has started to move from single words into a little conversation of sorts.

RR: Daddy. Daddy. Daddy.
Me: Sweetie!
RR: Daddy widget.
Me: I'm sorry sweetie, I don't have it right now.
RR: (sadly) No widget.
Me: You can play with it tomorrow, ok?
RR: Oh, no! (...sigh) (...eventually, goes to sleep)

A Bit of Rain

It's been a bit rainy here this past month, but little RR enjoys wearing her raincoat and boots. Actually she enjoys boots and shoes of all kinds, and finding them, and picking them up, and carrying them singly or in pairs from place to place. Lest this seem disorganized, she does her best to help out in the mornings, rushing to my nightstand and handing me the contents: Daddy wallet! Daddy semsum (cell phone)! Daddy glasses! -and sometimes, if she finds them: Daddy shoes! She has been careful to note all these items as present and accounted for when I come home from work, also.

Her numbers have now moved beyond two. I pointed out two buttons on my shirt and she said "three", prompting me to realize that shirt indeed had a third button under the collar, which I'd forgotten. However, as she looked at a book she counted the boxes on the page "One, Two... Something... Ten, Eleven.. Eight, Seven... "

Holidays 2009

We had a sparsely decorated but quite satisfactory Christmas this year, with little RR getting all the presents her attention span could handle. We enjoyed dinner at Aunt K's with Grandma E, where RR had a game of hide-and-seek with Aunt K. We also enjoyed brunch the next day at Aunt I's.

These past few weeks RR has been using several two-word phrases, including big box, Mommy's chair, DG's phone, and wet diaper (!)

Best wishes to all for a wonderful New Year.

Hanging In There

Nina has been in daycare approaching two months now, and the last sentence of my previous blog post has proven all too true. Little RR's most recent cold has affected her disposition in addition to her sinuses, so we're hoping even more for a quick recovery. In between colds, we are doing well. The photo shows the breakfast table scene on a recent very chilly morning.