a more serious baby post

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Verbal mimickry is amazing. Casper's memory is AMAZING. Yesterday as she sat on the potty (unproductively) after bath, she "read" the Boats book to me - recited every page as she turned them, nearly verbatim, only missing some stuff like verbs which she misses in lots of regular sentences. In the bath she said, "Man in the moon," and I said, "Came down too soon?," and she said, "Norwich," which is the next part of that nursury rhyme, which isn't a favorite or anything - I had to reach to get, "Came down too soon."

I doubt she's actually colorblind, as it's vanishingly rare in girls, but she's hopeless about colors. She knows pink reliably. The rest, a lizard may be green this minute and blue next minute and red the minute after that. I wonder if she doesn't get the concept? She can recognize and name maybe 50 animals - everything from a mouse to a bison - how can 6 colors be so hard? The brain is mysterious.

We read Beatrix Potter almost exclusively at bedtime right now. Benjamin Bunny is the favorite, because of the scarecrow, you know, but Jemima Puddleduck is right up there.

She's really interested in words and letters - points at words and says "E J E J E J" which I interpret to mean, "What do those letters say?"

Yesterday evening at the park Casper swang on every one of the big girl swings. She needs me to put her on them and push, but she can hold on quite well and likes to. Baby swings are still better, though, because she can lean back and get big pushes to feel the breeze in her hair.

I'm thinking in order to redirect my mother away from pushing Casper about potty training while we're there, I'll suggest she teach Casper to drink out of a cup. Which I'd like her to learn and I'm sure Grandma would like to "help" with. I am finally learing how to wisely manage my mother! It's not unlike managing a toddler, really, although you have to be a little sneakier.

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[cindywrites.livejournal.com]

I doubt she's actually colorblind, as it's vanishingly rare in girls, but she's hopeless about colors. She knows pink reliably. The rest, a lizard may be green this minute and blue next minute and red the minute after that. I wonder if she doesn't get the concept? She can recognize and name maybe 50 animals - everything from a mouse to a bison - how can 6 colors be so hard? The brain is mysterious.

It's been a long time so my memory may be flawed, but it seems to me that at that age, our pediatrician was really only interested in whether or not the kids could see red (and pink is red + white, so a reddish color).

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

In the bath she said, "Man in the moon," and I said, "Came down too soon?," and she said, "Norwich," which is the next part of that nursury rhyme, which isn't a favorite or anything - I had to reach to get, "Came down too soon."

The rhythm and rhymes and cadence all help here. I still remember snippets of stupid advertising jingles 40 some odd years later.

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking in order to redirect my mother away from pushing Casper about potty training while we're there, I'll suggest she teach Casper to drink out of a cup. Which I'd like her to learn and I'm sure Grandma would like to "help" with. I am finally learing how to wisely manage my mother! It's not unlike managing a toddler, really, although you have to be a little sneakier.

Genius!

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

The color thing is weird -- I mean there are a ton of colors that you're supposed to call "green" or "blue," and some of them are pretty darn similar.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Chuckles did the *exact* same thing with colors. I was like, "This child is a freakin' genius with everything else, how can she NOT tell the difference between red, blue, and white?" She randomly labeled colors for weeks, and then something finally clicked.