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Three year and nine month baby update
How time flies!
Laila is actually gone this weekend because![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee and I are going to a concert, but we've already gotten news from my parents that she's full of energy, always running around, wanting to paint, read books, go for walks...she's definitely too big for four walls.
For so long we've been worried about Laila's language acquisition, especially after all of her brain troubles, but it seems like she's finally starting to realize the value of using words to communicate. It's still a bit hard to pry them out of her around us, where she'll fall back on grabbing our hands and trying to pull us toward whatever it is that she wants us to do, but she's started using full sentences when she doesn't remember that she's not supposed to talk.
The subject of this post came out unbidden, and just recently when I was at the office sashagee sent me this:
The big exciting health news is that we have finally, finally got her medicine right and Laila has not had a seizure since a few weeks after I wrote her last baby update. Now, her seizure detection mechanism on her bed goes off and we rush in, and it's always to just find a smiling Laila who's happy to see us. B"H we won't have to worry about it any more.
We enrolled Laila in swimming classes around the middle of January. Thanks to various things we've only been to a couple classes, and they've so far had mixed results. Laila loves being in the water, but the first two classes she kept dumping the floating foam toys that the instructors kept in baskets and they had to keep retrieving them. The second class she was a bit of a terror, and I overheard the instructor mention how stressful teaching her was, but the third class she was a lot calmer and more willing to listen to instructions. I kind of attribute that to extenuating circumstances, though--sashagee thinks that when she first got excited and pushed off the wall to splash around, she got a big mouthful of water and it scared her into caution. We can't rely on that to happen every time, though it sure would be nice. She tends to be foolhardy and while I'm glad she's not too scared, there's a good medium that would be nice to find.
Just about all little girls go through this phase, and now it's Laila's turn--she's a fairy princess:
sashagee's parents got her the wings, the wand, and the heels. The camera has basically not left her neck since she got it, other than taking it away to be charged. And let me tell you, whoever designed that camera is a genius, because the battery runs out in about 30 minutes. Well, I think so--Laila takes about 20 pictures a minute when she's not flipping through all the in-built Hello Kitty filters, so it's possible that that battery would last longer under ideal circumstances. On the other hand, maybe 20 pictures a minute is ideal for a three-year-old.
Laila's other big thing she does not is she's always dragging me into her room to drive her toy cars down on her rug.sashagee got her a rug that has roads and all kinds of scenery on it--mountains, forests, a hospital, a volcano, a pretzel shop, etc--and she loves grabbing me to pull me in to "drive on the road." Of course, that often turns into building with blocks, or watching the colored light projector's ceiling lights that, or using her toddler toolkit to build some simple shapes. It's no surprise that she can't keep much attention on anything--it's our job to help teach her how to do it.
What other ways will she grow and change?
Laila is actually gone this weekend because
sashagee and I are going to a concert, but we've already gotten news from my parents that she's full of energy, always running around, wanting to paint, read books, go for walks...she's definitely too big for four walls.For so long we've been worried about Laila's language acquisition, especially after all of her brain troubles, but it seems like she's finally starting to realize the value of using words to communicate. It's still a bit hard to pry them out of her around us, where she'll fall back on grabbing our hands and trying to pull us toward whatever it is that she wants us to do, but she's started using full sentences when she doesn't remember that she's not supposed to talk.
The subject of this post came out unbidden, and just recently when I was at the office sashagee sent me this:Regardless of her use of words, all the ideas are there. She knows what she wants and what she wants is donuts.
Laila: "Donuts."
Laila: "Donuts."
Laila: "Donuts! Let's eat some donuts!"
The big exciting health news is that we have finally, finally got her medicine right and Laila has not had a seizure since a few weeks after I wrote her last baby update. Now, her seizure detection mechanism on her bed goes off and we rush in, and it's always to just find a smiling Laila who's happy to see us. B"H we won't have to worry about it any more.
We enrolled Laila in swimming classes around the middle of January. Thanks to various things we've only been to a couple classes, and they've so far had mixed results. Laila loves being in the water, but the first two classes she kept dumping the floating foam toys that the instructors kept in baskets and they had to keep retrieving them. The second class she was a bit of a terror, and I overheard the instructor mention how stressful teaching her was, but the third class she was a lot calmer and more willing to listen to instructions. I kind of attribute that to extenuating circumstances, though--
sashagee thinks that when she first got excited and pushed off the wall to splash around, she got a big mouthful of water and it scared her into caution. We can't rely on that to happen every time, though it sure would be nice. She tends to be foolhardy and while I'm glad she's not too scared, there's a good medium that would be nice to find.Just about all little girls go through this phase, and now it's Laila's turn--she's a fairy princess:
sashagee's parents got her the wings, the wand, and the heels. The camera has basically not left her neck since she got it, other than taking it away to be charged. And let me tell you, whoever designed that camera is a genius, because the battery runs out in about 30 minutes. Well, I think so--Laila takes about 20 pictures a minute when she's not flipping through all the in-built Hello Kitty filters, so it's possible that that battery would last longer under ideal circumstances. On the other hand, maybe 20 pictures a minute is ideal for a three-year-old.Laila's other big thing she does not is she's always dragging me into her room to drive her toy cars down on her rug.
sashagee got her a rug that has roads and all kinds of scenery on it--mountains, forests, a hospital, a volcano, a pretzel shop, etc--and she loves grabbing me to pull me in to "drive on the road." Of course, that often turns into building with blocks, or watching the colored light projector's ceiling lights that, or using her toddler toolkit to build some simple shapes. It's no surprise that she can't keep much attention on anything--it's our job to help teach her how to do it. What other ways will she grow and change?