Daisy quotables
1) Today after the Discovery Museum Daisy was saying she wanted friends to come over to her house. I started explaining why we would probably need to wait for a little while, and all the reasons: some friends are leaving town for the holidays, others have their own families coming into town to visit, others are expecting new baby brothers or sisters and getting ready to celebrate the holiday, etc. She listened carefully and then said, "That's a lot to think about." It was, too! I promised her we'd have friends over very soon, however.
2) Daisy has discovered the expression "making [someone] miserable." She has been trying it out, although I really don't think she knows what it means. The other day I went to find her beloved Monkees CD in the car and she got very excited at my success in locating it. She said, "YAYYY!" Then, "Mama, maybe the Monkees are making themselves miserable."
3) I may have reported on this already--I lose track--but Daisy has been telling us she needs some space, or to "get some space." She'll say, "Mama, you want to get some space?" This means, MOVE IT, Mama. Or she'll say, "Mama, you want to go sit on the little couch?" That means get off the big couch so that Daisy can have it all to herself. So, she is working on carving out some of her own personal space, which I think must be a good thing, and she's also developing some self-consciousness. If she's playing one of her imaginative games (where she makes the characters do things, and narrates their adventures to herself), she'll tell us to look the other way, or she'll tell us to get up and move a little bit away from the site of the game. It's like she needs to get into her own world, and us being there disrupts it... or maybe it's a new self-consciousness, like she doesn't want us staring at her, listening in, or (God forbid) laughing as though it's cute.
4) Daisy likes to play "chess." What does this mean? Well, unfortunately, it means standing on the "podium"--a box of blocks she uses as a stepping stool--at a low bookshelf and hitting one of her puzzles with a chopstick like it's a drum. That is "chess." Now, why does this child use chopsticks as toys? Blame her grandmother, not me. They invented a game in which the chopsticks are paddles, and Daisy is rowing out at sea. Now Daisy has a thing about the "skinny paddle." She comes after me saying, "Mama, where is Daisy's skinny paddle?" This means not just any chopstick will do; she MUST have the "skinny" one. Daisy also has "tools." Her associations are very unusual; one of her toy reindeer is a "tool" and she uses it to "fix a fish." She also has a hair chopstick which she calls "Mama Bear."
Daisy has been doing a lot of this imaginative, independent play lately. A lot of times, I can watch from the sidelines while she entertains herself, talking the whole time and moving things around--telling stories about her animals and dolls, or building block stacks, etc. I love to see her like this.
She's also been sleeping better, but I am really going to jinx myself if I say anything more about it!!
2) Daisy has discovered the expression "making [someone] miserable." She has been trying it out, although I really don't think she knows what it means. The other day I went to find her beloved Monkees CD in the car and she got very excited at my success in locating it. She said, "YAYYY!" Then, "Mama, maybe the Monkees are making themselves miserable."
3) I may have reported on this already--I lose track--but Daisy has been telling us she needs some space, or to "get some space." She'll say, "Mama, you want to get some space?" This means, MOVE IT, Mama. Or she'll say, "Mama, you want to go sit on the little couch?" That means get off the big couch so that Daisy can have it all to herself. So, she is working on carving out some of her own personal space, which I think must be a good thing, and she's also developing some self-consciousness. If she's playing one of her imaginative games (where she makes the characters do things, and narrates their adventures to herself), she'll tell us to look the other way, or she'll tell us to get up and move a little bit away from the site of the game. It's like she needs to get into her own world, and us being there disrupts it... or maybe it's a new self-consciousness, like she doesn't want us staring at her, listening in, or (God forbid) laughing as though it's cute.
4) Daisy likes to play "chess." What does this mean? Well, unfortunately, it means standing on the "podium"--a box of blocks she uses as a stepping stool--at a low bookshelf and hitting one of her puzzles with a chopstick like it's a drum. That is "chess." Now, why does this child use chopsticks as toys? Blame her grandmother, not me. They invented a game in which the chopsticks are paddles, and Daisy is rowing out at sea. Now Daisy has a thing about the "skinny paddle." She comes after me saying, "Mama, where is Daisy's skinny paddle?" This means not just any chopstick will do; she MUST have the "skinny" one. Daisy also has "tools." Her associations are very unusual; one of her toy reindeer is a "tool" and she uses it to "fix a fish." She also has a hair chopstick which she calls "Mama Bear."
Daisy has been doing a lot of this imaginative, independent play lately. A lot of times, I can watch from the sidelines while she entertains herself, talking the whole time and moving things around--telling stories about her animals and dolls, or building block stacks, etc. I love to see her like this.
She's also been sleeping better, but I am really going to jinx myself if I say anything more about it!!
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