On the way home from Grandma and Grandpa's house Claire sang "Old MacDonald" for 20 minutes straight. She loves it when we sing it to her but we had never heard her sing it before. Most of the time the poor man only had spiders at his farm. The part you can't likely understand is the spiders saying "creepy crawly". Also, Finding Nemo is at times louder than Claire. Later on, Old MacDonald had some dinosaurs, Muno, Fufa, Yo Gabba Gabba, spiders, Mommy, Daddy, spiders, Jackson, Claire, spiders, spiders, cows, pigs, kitty cats, spiders, doggies, more dinosaurs, spiders a few more times, big Nemo, and spiders again.
There's a ton of background noise that makes it hard to hear, but life is hard.
05 November 2011
24 October 2011
Making WASP mothers feel like failures since 2010
Jackson was with Jason and his parents for the latter half of last week. We decided to spend some time at the Atlanta Botanical Garden after picking up Jackson but before returning home. Erin's parents thought that sounded like a good idea as well so they offered to come with us. While driving to Atlanta, Grandma made a small comment to Grandpa that the GPS indicated we had 42 more miles to go before we stayed on the same freeway we were already on. Claire overheard and counted 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. She at least didn't know that 50 followed 49.
Backstory: Back in Gimmelshtump, Claire's parents read or heard about the idea of counting the stairs one ascends or descends while with baby to help teach said baby numbers. We're not perfect, but we usually try to remember to do so. We have 14 stairs going from the ground level to the upper level and 14 stairs going from the ground level to the basement. Consequently Claire is really good at counting 1-14 by herself. With help she can get to 20. We're impressed, but it's an old trick so it isn't generally noteworthy. We've never heard her count much past 25, however.
We were all very impressed with Miss Freakshow's apparent grasp of number patterns. When we arrived at the gardens, we packed into an elevator with a few other families. Claire likes elevators and likes to read the numbers on the display showing which floor you are on. Claire promptly shouted out FOUR! as the elevator displayed we were in fact on the fourth floor. It ascended to the fifth floor and she followed with FIVE! One of the WASP mothers on the elevator with us asked how old Claire was and was visibly disheartened to hear she was but 1 year old.
Another cute trick: Erin was counting on her fingers with Claire a little while back. Erin stuck out one finger and counted one then two fingers and counted two. Claire then pulled out Erin's thumb and said three. At least she's counting with ASL.
We've just started on her alphabet, but so far haven't made much progress past B-C. She apparently thinks "A" isn't relevant and is being used simply as an article.
Backstory: Back in Gimmelshtump, Claire's parents read or heard about the idea of counting the stairs one ascends or descends while with baby to help teach said baby numbers. We're not perfect, but we usually try to remember to do so. We have 14 stairs going from the ground level to the upper level and 14 stairs going from the ground level to the basement. Consequently Claire is really good at counting 1-14 by herself. With help she can get to 20. We're impressed, but it's an old trick so it isn't generally noteworthy. We've never heard her count much past 25, however.
We were all very impressed with Miss Freakshow's apparent grasp of number patterns. When we arrived at the gardens, we packed into an elevator with a few other families. Claire likes elevators and likes to read the numbers on the display showing which floor you are on. Claire promptly shouted out FOUR! as the elevator displayed we were in fact on the fourth floor. It ascended to the fifth floor and she followed with FIVE! One of the WASP mothers on the elevator with us asked how old Claire was and was visibly disheartened to hear she was but 1 year old.
Another cute trick: Erin was counting on her fingers with Claire a little while back. Erin stuck out one finger and counted one then two fingers and counted two. Claire then pulled out Erin's thumb and said three. At least she's counting with ASL.
We've just started on her alphabet, but so far haven't made much progress past B-C. She apparently thinks "A" isn't relevant and is being used simply as an article.
08 October 2011
27 September 2011
Chocolate Cake
Claire plays "What's that?" before insisting that she's two years old. One day she might let us record her counting to 10. She likes to stop all of her tricks if she sees a camera or you're trying to show her off.
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