DIY
misty · Mon, May 16, 2016Pretty uneventful day, but not a bad one by far. Milo and I played together a lot, and she played on her own quite a bit, too. I love watching her entertain herself. It’s especially fun to sit back and watch her try to figure things out or turn things over in her hands with an expression of total focus and wonder on her face.
She continued to climb on her walker backward, though she didn’t get stuck as much today. One thing she’s been doing a lot lately is crawling over to the radiator, and I can’t get her to stop. I must take her away from the radiator area at least 5 times per day. I think she thinks it’s a game, but I use my stern voice and tell her that it’s dangerous and she can’t be there. Hopefully in time she’ll learn to stay away.
She had two great naps today, and during her second, I laid on the floor and dozed off, as well. It was pretty great. I woke up only about 2 minutes before she did. Pretty good.
After her second nap, we went to Panhandle Park and played on the swings a bit. There’s not much she can do there just yet except swing, but hopefully when she’s walking better, we can let her explore. I think pretty soon we’re going to let her sit in the sand. Hopefully she doesn’t try to eat it.
When we got home, we played a bit more. Yesterday, I bought some velcro hair rollers for her to play with, and tonight she seemed to really like them! I showed her to pull one out of the other, and we worked on that a while. I also tried to get her to stick them to her stuffed animals, but she mostly wanted to pull them off once I’d stuck them there. We had a lot of fun with that, though. She’s such a smart, curious girl!
Notes:
Milo’s newest game is dropping socks outside of her crib after her naps. I always let her stay in her crib for a few minutes when she’s woken up, figuring that she’ll either go back to sleep or have a few minutes to fuss and then calm down. During that crib time, she’s taken to pulling off her socks and dropping them outside of the crib - on the far side where I can’t reach them. Trouble maker. Oh, and two days ago, she also pulled all of the stuffed animals off of her mobile because apparently she can reach them now and she’s super strong.
Today, Milo spent some time actively trying to stack blocks. I showed her how to do it, but in true Milo fashion, she didn’t want me to help her. So each time I put one block on top of another, she knocked it off and tried to put her block there. She’s not quite coordinated enough to stack them yet, but we’ll keep working on it.
Recently, Chase and Milo started playing a game where they pass one item back and forth. She’ll hand it to him, and he’ll accept and say thank you. Then he offers it back and she takes it. and on and on. It’s a great game, and today we played it a bit with the blocks. Milo gets so excited when we accept and say thank you. It’s very sweet.
I put Milo’s baseball hat on her yesterday while she was in the ergo so that she couldn’t take it off, so that was the first time she really wore it. It ended up in her play bin when we got home, and today she found it and tried to put it on her head. I helped, but of course she didn’t want my help.
My girl still happily gulps down water whenever she happens to find either our water bottle or hers. It’s so crazy how much she loves drinking water. She’ll just sit there and drink and drink if we don’t take it away from her.