Two year and ten months Baby Update
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This post is slightly backdated because somehow the original date passed me by!
Laila continues to expand her vocabulary. While she was originally placed in speech therapy after her early intervention assessment, apparently the speech therapist always had some doubts about its necessity--the day I worked from home to meet her, she told me that the very first day she heard Laila say, "Her bag has flowers!" when she was coming up the stairs and she was like "Oh, why am I even here?" She doesn't have any worries about Laila's development. I wrote back in the two years and eight months update post that she was reluctant to use sentences, but that reluctance seems to be fading. She'll very often string words together now, most frequently "No want" (of course), but also things like "sit here" or "I fell down" or "What happened?" My parents heard her say, unprompted, "I want some bread please." Of course her longer sentences are about food!
She's also getting a better understanding of emotions, though of course being a toddler, she thinks about it out loud. One of the cutest things she still does is when she thinks something is hilarious, which always leads to laughter that sounds like this: "Ahahahahahaah funny!" We were at the park and Laila was playing with another kid about her age, and when the other kid had to go home she threw a crying tantrum. And Laila looked at this other little girl, yelling and crying and falling on the ground, and did this:
She's been in a gymnastics class lately, and while the first class apparently ran![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee ragged with how wild Laila was, it turned out to be because she had just come back from a weekend out at the grandparents and was low on sleep. She's been much better in subsequent weeks and has slowly started to learn that sometimes you can't just do what you want, especially if there are other people there your age who want to do it too. It's also good because it helps her burn off her energy, of which she has a prodigious amount. Even the other toddler parents at the gymnastics class talk about how much energy Laila has. They're right, and they don't even have to keep up with her!
It's not all good news. Our book-loving baby, who always wanted to be read to, has discovered video. She still likes books, but she's much more annoyed that we limit her screen time to an hour a day and always stuff that we watch together with her. She used to watch a lot of Sesame Street but lately, she's been on a Ghibli movies kick. She watches My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, The Secret World of Arrietty , and Howl's Moving Castle over and over again, half an hour at a time in the morning after breakfast, and then no screen time until after dinner, when lately she's been wanting to watch the Cars shorts. In the way of young children, she's perfectly happy to watch the same thing day after day.
Here's a recent of picture of her taken by her Papa and Nana after they dressed her up for St. Patrick's Day:
Not pictured here, but they painted her nails green too, and she was so pleased by that. For days after until it washed off she would keep looking at it.
What other ways will she grow and change?
Laila continues to expand her vocabulary. While she was originally placed in speech therapy after her early intervention assessment, apparently the speech therapist always had some doubts about its necessity--the day I worked from home to meet her, she told me that the very first day she heard Laila say, "Her bag has flowers!" when she was coming up the stairs and she was like "Oh, why am I even here?" She doesn't have any worries about Laila's development. I wrote back in the two years and eight months update post that she was reluctant to use sentences, but that reluctance seems to be fading. She'll very often string words together now, most frequently "No want" (of course), but also things like "sit here" or "I fell down" or "What happened?" My parents heard her say, unprompted, "I want some bread please." Of course her longer sentences are about food!
She's also getting a better understanding of emotions, though of course being a toddler, she thinks about it out loud. One of the cutest things she still does is when she thinks something is hilarious, which always leads to laughter that sounds like this: "Ahahahahahaah funny!" We were at the park and Laila was playing with another kid about her age, and when the other kid had to go home she threw a crying tantrum. And Laila looked at this other little girl, yelling and crying and falling on the ground, and did this:
Laila: "Sad."She'll sometimes do the same thing herself after she's done crying, along with analyzing what it was that made her cry ("Fall down" or "bonk head" are common). She has a much better understanding of when she's done something wrong--it doesn't mean she doesn't do it, because of course she's a toddler, but she'll sometimes run away immediately after it, or try to give us a hug and kiss in the obvious hope that we'll think she's too cute to notice her throwing her toys or trying to stand on the table. Just normal, ordinary toddler things.
Laila nods solemnly.
Laila: "Mmhmm."
Laila nods solemnly.
Laila: "Cry."
Laila nods solemnly.
Laila: "Mmhmm."
She's been in a gymnastics class lately, and while the first class apparently ran
sashagee ragged with how wild Laila was, it turned out to be because she had just come back from a weekend out at the grandparents and was low on sleep. She's been much better in subsequent weeks and has slowly started to learn that sometimes you can't just do what you want, especially if there are other people there your age who want to do it too. It's also good because it helps her burn off her energy, of which she has a prodigious amount. Even the other toddler parents at the gymnastics class talk about how much energy Laila has. They're right, and they don't even have to keep up with her!It's not all good news. Our book-loving baby, who always wanted to be read to, has discovered video. She still likes books, but she's much more annoyed that we limit her screen time to an hour a day and always stuff that we watch together with her. She used to watch a lot of Sesame Street but lately, she's been on a Ghibli movies kick. She watches My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, The Secret World of Arrietty , and Howl's Moving Castle over and over again, half an hour at a time in the morning after breakfast, and then no screen time until after dinner, when lately she's been wanting to watch the Cars shorts. In the way of young children, she's perfectly happy to watch the same thing day after day.
Here's a recent of picture of her taken by her Papa and Nana after they dressed her up for St. Patrick's Day:
Not pictured here, but they painted her nails green too, and she was so pleased by that. For days after until it washed off she would keep looking at it.
What other ways will she grow and change?
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