{"id":4083,"date":"2009-06-14T07:12:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2009-06-14T07:14:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:14:34","slug":"tidbits-from-the-month-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2009\/tidbits-from-the-month-may-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the month: May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

The girls are doing so many interesting things! I can hardly remember to write them all down, but here is my best shot for May: <\/p>\n

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p{color:gray}. Photo: Rosie loves to look upside-down between her legs. The world is an amazing place!<\/p>\n

* Rosie learned to climb up on the kitchen chair this month — and therefore on pretty much everything else (for example, the kitchen table). We are prohibiting that activity, so wish us luck.
\n* Lucy started sleeping without a diaper at naptime at the beginning of the month. She only had one accident, probably on the second or third day of this new practice, and the whole rest of the month has stayed dry. Go Lucy!
\n* Lucy slept without a diaper at nighttime for the first time on the evening of May 29. And she stayed dry all night! We gave this a one-week run, and she stayed dry half the time. We’ll give it another try in a month or two.
\n* Rosie has four molars now, so twelve teeth total. We started toothbrushing this month on May 18. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why we waited so long for this milestone with Rosie when we started brushing Lucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teeth when she only had six of them.
\n* At naptime, part of our routine includes putting Rosie in her crib to play for a few minutes while I do some pre-sleep singing and praying with Lucy. Sometimes while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gone, Rosie stuffs books and animals in the crack between her crib and the wall, like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing a toddler version of ConnectFour. Lately, when I go back to get Rosie, she tries to escape from me in the crib, scrambling all around and laughing. Once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got her into her sleepsack, I pick her up and we walk to Lucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good night\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one more time. And these days, when I close Lucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s door, she says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take care of Rosie, Mama, okay?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n* Rosie has learned to point to her nose and mouth when prompted. We are working on the “armpit recognition”:\/news\/2007\/our-little-announcement.
\n* Rosie has some new words! She says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tickle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while holding her feet, since that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where she gets tickled. She can also say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153belly button\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153bay-bay\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) and baby (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153bee-bee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). These are quite similar, but they make sense in context. And of course, Rosie says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d constantly. We are starting to think that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d might mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153family\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or “love” in Rosie-speak, especially since she keeps saying it while pointing to Papa and Lucy.
\n* The other day I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rosie, why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you put that bib in the laundry basket?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And she did it straightaway! Then I tried again later: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rosie, why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you go into Lucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room and get a book?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And she did it! Hooray for the verbal comprehension!
\n* Lucy has been experimenting with calling us \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d every once in awhile. It sounds sort of weird coming out of her mouth! But I suppose she can call us whatever she wants, within reason. I’ll draw the line at “Old Lady” and “Pops.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n* Rosie started to give up her morning naps in late May. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going cold turkey, but we can tell it’s the beginning of the end — and I rejoice! Lucy and I are looking forward to more all-girl morning outings with the Rose.
\n* Lucy slept with George the dog for much of May, then suddenly stopped. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153George should go in the living room,” she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a toy dog.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which makes it clear that Lucy views Piggy Lou and Barney Bear as real, \u00c3\u00a0 la the Velveteen Rabbit.<\/p>\n

*And now for the latest _bons mots_ from Lucy:*<\/p>\n

* \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good morning, Sir Charles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (A quote from “_The Pink Panther_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0009S4J3C\/octothorppres-20.)
\n* \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mama, Laurie Berkner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hands are dancing like birds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Referring to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Around My Room\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Laurie Berkner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s “latest album”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001A62ZII\/octothorppres-20 ).
\n* \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mama, you are being very generous with Rosie.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (After I gave Rosie some of my brownie)
\n* \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How about a perfect toe chef?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Lucy claims this is a quote is from They MIght Be Giants, but we have no idea where or what the line really is.)
\n* \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I did?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (This is Lucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What did I do?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)
\n* Lucy, after watching some Looney Toons, took a big chomp from a carrot at lunchtime and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We later realized that this was her interpretation of Bugs Bunny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classic question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up, doc?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n* Jon: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lucy, I think you are potty trained now!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lucy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my potty train?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls are doing so many interesting things! I can hardly remember to write them all down, but here is my best shot for May:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}