Please

misty  ·  Wed, Jul 20, 2016

I still have trouble when Milo’s naps are shorter than I’ve come to expect. This morning, she had a short nap, ~40m. Usually it’s more like 2 hours. So I was a little annoyed, but then she totally turned the day around when she signed “please” when she wanted a snack!

By far, her favorite snacks are peanut butter cracker sandwiches, and I keep them in a little snack cup with a screw-on cap. She knows to bring me the cup if she wants one, but today I started showing her the “please” sign before I gave her a cracker. I even put her hand on her chest to show her how to make the sign. Then she did it! It wasn’t perfect, of course, but I was super excited!

Up to now, the only sign we’ve seen her do regularly is “all done,” and it’s usually when we’ve finished reading a book to her. So now she’s got two signs that we recognize! So exciting.

In less exciting news, Milo lost a toy from the stroller on our way to music class. I’ve had an Infantino elephant toy since before M was born. In fact, it’s probably one of the first toys we got for M because someone gave it to us free with a CL purchase. Anyway, I keep it hooked to the stroller when we go out so she has something to hold on to. Today she unhooked it and must have thrown it off without me noticing. When we go to music class, only the orange ring was still on there, the elephant was gone forever. Because I’m a little attached to it, I retraced my steps on the way home, but I didn’t see it anywhere. Too bad.

In music class, Milo has a friend named Atticus who is just so flipping adorable. He’s about a month or two older than M, and they’ve interacted with each other quite a lot since class began all those months ago. Today, they were at odds over some music toys, though. Milo wanted what Atticus had, and then Atticus wanted what Milo had. So Atticus’s mom and I played a game of pass the instrument: Atticus would take Milo’s, Milo would take mine, I’d take Milo’s, Milo would take Atticus’s, etc. It was pretty fun, actually. Who knew tiny tots would be so possessive over ukuleles?

M played with her xylophone toy properly for the first time. It’s designed so that you use the hammer to push the balls through, and they fall onto the xylophone and make music. She didn’t use the hammer, but she did push the balls through onto the xylophone, and then she put the balls back in their place and pushed them through again. Normally, she just takes the xylophone out and throws the balls around. I was glad to see that she figured out how to use it.

Notes:

• Milo is obsessed with The Foot Book (Dr. Seuss). She always finds it among her toys and brings it over to whoever is around and demands we read it over and over. I’ll admit it: I’ve hidden The Foot Book a time or two. I’m not proud of it, but after reading it 25 times in a row, Mama needs a break. Oh my, how that girl’s eyes light up when she gets to look at the pages and hears us say the rhymes! I love it so much.