welcome to my world...
I know, I know, Z has one of those paper baby book things, but it just seems like its easier to mention these kinds of things here, since I'm thinking of a bunch of other things anyway. Could you vague that up a bit?
Which is to say, she did her first math problem today (while sitting on the potty - not sure how this bodes for the future...) when I asked her if I gave her 2 bear gummys and 1 snake gummy, how many gummys did she have. She counted them up and said "three"! I'll now skip over the part where I confess that we've started re-bribing her to sit on the potty (at least while at home) and likewise also omit that she's had more accidents in the last 2 weeks (all but one at home) then she did when we we're actively "training" her months ago... Not that it matters, but I'm pretty sure this is tied up with me going back to my (last semester!) of school. Or the fact that I can't finish a thought without interrupting the thought to insert a parenthetical tangent. Except for the immediately preceding sentence. Oh, irony, you are a harsh mistress!
Also, while we're not mentioning any of my parental shortcomings, Z also took it upon herself to get dressed completely on her own - undies, shirt, pants, socks - all on in the conventional (right seems so judgmental - there I go again!) order and functionally optimal position (ie not inside out or backwards :). She was pretty pleased with herself, but I was ecstatic. Just one more of those many tiny baby steps towards independence! Maybe tomorrow I'll let her pick the clothes, too... she has a very daring and bold sense of fashion ;)
Tomorrow's a golden birthday of sorts for the 2 of us - she'll be 31 months and I'll be 31 years. To celebrate I think we'll all go running, have brunch, maybe try to sneak a quick ice skate in before naps, and then go for a swim in the "warm" pool at the gym. All of this physical activity will hopefully yield a pleasant but tired Z so that she will be not too much work for my Mom who will be staying with her and C-Dawg while the Boy and I... wait for it... go off to Wintergreen for the night! And probably some snowboarding (yes, everyone, I will wear wrist guards and a helmet :) in the morning, time and weather permitting. For those of you playing along in the home game, yes, the upcoming 18 or 20 hours will be, by far, the longest I've been away from the Z.... the Boy, too, actually. Neither of us have spent a night away from her in the last 31 months.
Well, just yesterday the Boy hid out in Z's room for a good chunk of the night cos she would not settle and was using us as human focus pads, and we learned early on that 2 parents with no sleep is distinctly inferior to one well rested parent and one parent who does fine with a little sleep deprivation here and there, so in such cases the Boy goes away... and at least sometimes that settles her down anyway. Not 2 nights ago... but sometimes.
Classes are looking good, ironically I've only had 2 of 4 - 1 meets for the first time next monday (Advanced Qual) and 1 is an online 5 week class which starts mid-February. If you think my online residences are sparsely inhabited now, wait til that class kicks in - its a pure, un-adulturated time suck. Other classes are Stats 4 (multiple DVs MANOVA, Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis -like that) and my pilot research, which looks like it's going to be on the nature of learning embedded in the interactions between family groups and historical interpreters at living history museums. Details still hazy, though I need an update by Tuesday... maybe even an actual research question...? I'm pretty excited, should be a lot of fun and interesting and hopefully downright educational! :)
Of course there's more. There's always more. Why I can't blog in smaller more frequent chunks is also beyond me. Gotta hunker down and get some good work done today so we can frolic tomorrow and Monday - 2 whole days of fun! Well, partial days - class is at 4 on Monday.
And last but not least, happy new year!
Which is to say, she did her first math problem today (while sitting on the potty - not sure how this bodes for the future...) when I asked her if I gave her 2 bear gummys and 1 snake gummy, how many gummys did she have. She counted them up and said "three"! I'll now skip over the part where I confess that we've started re-bribing her to sit on the potty (at least while at home) and likewise also omit that she's had more accidents in the last 2 weeks (all but one at home) then she did when we we're actively "training" her months ago... Not that it matters, but I'm pretty sure this is tied up with me going back to my (last semester!) of school. Or the fact that I can't finish a thought without interrupting the thought to insert a parenthetical tangent. Except for the immediately preceding sentence. Oh, irony, you are a harsh mistress!
Also, while we're not mentioning any of my parental shortcomings, Z also took it upon herself to get dressed completely on her own - undies, shirt, pants, socks - all on in the conventional (right seems so judgmental - there I go again!) order and functionally optimal position (ie not inside out or backwards :). She was pretty pleased with herself, but I was ecstatic. Just one more of those many tiny baby steps towards independence! Maybe tomorrow I'll let her pick the clothes, too... she has a very daring and bold sense of fashion ;)
Tomorrow's a golden birthday of sorts for the 2 of us - she'll be 31 months and I'll be 31 years. To celebrate I think we'll all go running, have brunch, maybe try to sneak a quick ice skate in before naps, and then go for a swim in the "warm" pool at the gym. All of this physical activity will hopefully yield a pleasant but tired Z so that she will be not too much work for my Mom who will be staying with her and C-Dawg while the Boy and I... wait for it... go off to Wintergreen for the night! And probably some snowboarding (yes, everyone, I will wear wrist guards and a helmet :) in the morning, time and weather permitting. For those of you playing along in the home game, yes, the upcoming 18 or 20 hours will be, by far, the longest I've been away from the Z.... the Boy, too, actually. Neither of us have spent a night away from her in the last 31 months.
Well, just yesterday the Boy hid out in Z's room for a good chunk of the night cos she would not settle and was using us as human focus pads, and we learned early on that 2 parents with no sleep is distinctly inferior to one well rested parent and one parent who does fine with a little sleep deprivation here and there, so in such cases the Boy goes away... and at least sometimes that settles her down anyway. Not 2 nights ago... but sometimes.
Classes are looking good, ironically I've only had 2 of 4 - 1 meets for the first time next monday (Advanced Qual) and 1 is an online 5 week class which starts mid-February. If you think my online residences are sparsely inhabited now, wait til that class kicks in - its a pure, un-adulturated time suck. Other classes are Stats 4 (multiple DVs MANOVA, Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis -like that) and my pilot research, which looks like it's going to be on the nature of learning embedded in the interactions between family groups and historical interpreters at living history museums. Details still hazy, though I need an update by Tuesday... maybe even an actual research question...? I'm pretty excited, should be a lot of fun and interesting and hopefully downright educational! :)
Of course there's more. There's always more. Why I can't blog in smaller more frequent chunks is also beyond me. Gotta hunker down and get some good work done today so we can frolic tomorrow and Monday - 2 whole days of fun! Well, partial days - class is at 4 on Monday.
And last but not least, happy new year!