big and little

[flea]

Casper is very good with sizes of things. Daddy wears "big shirt" and "big shoes" and elephants have "big ears." On Funny Videos last night she saw "tiny doggie!" (and it was, a puppy of a terrier sort.) This morning, the waffles, "little holes" as she put her fingers in them.

Verbs are coming along a bit. When she uses them, she tends to get the tense right for the circumstances, but I think she only really knows common phrases like "Daddy came home" rather than really understanding the way tenses work in regular verbs, let alone irregular.

She definitely understands the concepts of one and two (also the concept of "all gone" which is sort of like zero, isn't it?) Any bigger numbers just get "One two three five six seven nine ten!"

She is so happy to see the nanny in the morning! I am usually long gone by the time she gets there, but since mr. flea is away, the nanny came an hour early today. She was wiggling and dancing with excitement, and showed the nanny her new car, and the book we were reading, and in general, so happy. Nice.

She's taken to saying, "I like doggies." Repeated several times, on different occasions. Start of awareness of who she is and what she likes. "I like peas" too. She is a girl who likes doggies and peas.

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My mother is so yanking my chain with this house thing. As of last night she is having second thoughts, so has an appointment to see the house again, and also to look at others in the same price range. I cannot take the emotional rollercoaster, damn it.

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[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Wait. She doesn't get that the emotional attachment is to that particular house? Sigh.

I mean, all the houses on my grandfather's street were built by the same guy (who lived across the street), and were similar in age, style, size, price, and everything else, but there's only one of them that I'd ever actually want to buy.

Casper likes carrots?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I think she wants to see what's selling for the same price, and to note that while similar houses may be in better shape, they are almost certainly more poorly located. This one is in a sweet location - you can walk to town, the ferry, the beach, all on sidewalks. I think she's dealing with convincing her husband, who has no emotional investment at all, and is being dragged into this rather against his will.

Casper is okay with carrots, though she looooves peas. This whole journal is "Casper likes carrots," of course!

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Awww! Cutehead Casper. And randomly, "all gone" reminds me of a song I liked(invented?) when I was like, two. Which was something about "strawberry pie all gone bye bye".

I'm back in town the 14th and 15th, but just for the one night. :(