Junior: January 2006 Archives
Magda's spoken vocabulary is increasing nicely. She can say "Kah" for Kayleigh and does so whenever she sees her or as soon as we get close to Elizabeth's house. She also recently started saying a nice long "Roooh" for Rose. I wonder how confused she'll be when she comes across flowers called "rose".
Now that she's vocalizing, it makes it more difficult for me to speak in Czech at her. When she was just using baby sign, it was easy enough to confirm her expression (sign for a "ball") with the Czech word ("míč"). Now her "ball" sign is accompanied with a spoken "bah" so it's kind of hard to reinfoce it in Czech. Actually, in the case of a ball, I can use a similar Czech word ("balón"), but for most of her spoken words this doesn't work.
My plan is to simply keep using the Czech words. Hopefully she'll interpret it as me confirming that I noticed the object she's pointing out rather than that I'm confirming her vocalization.
Magda is starting to get focused on height. She still doesn't stand or walk on her own, but she is oh-so-close. Her favorite activity is to demand "Go, go!" and to walk around while holding on to your hands. Yesterday, after Jfer's prompting, she stood up and actually walked with her walker on her own -- in the past she'd always been pushing it on her knees.
She also likes climbing on the couch and the big red chair. Something that Jfer, for some irresponsible reason, is encouraging. She needs help to make it up but is getting pretty good about laying down on her belly and sliding down feet first on her own.
Outdoors, her new fun activity is holding Homer's leash and letting him pull her in the stroller. She'd like to do the same with Rose but can't quite handle her acceleration.
And finally, she's started stacking blocks. We have little wooden cubes with letters on them that we stack into tall towers and let her destroy. The other night I cought her amids her blocks, stacking them three-high and then pushing them over. I can't wait for her to be old enough to get started on KAPLA.
