Good Girl
I've found that Baby Girl has become a good indicator of words or phrases that we say frequently. Because she's starting to mimic them. (Ahem... Tim... you get what that means, right?!)
Today it was "Goo Go" every time I said "Good Girl!" to her.
And she's still saying "isssthsh" for "fish" whenever I ask her if she wants to go see the fish.
She's actually understanding a hell of a lot of the stuff we're saying to her these days. She knows "Baby Girl's bedroom" and she knows "potty room" (cause that's always the first thing I gotta do when I get home with her at the end of the day ;-)) and she knows "mommy and daddy's bedroom". She knows "let's get changed" or "let's get a new diaper" means we need to go to her bedroom. She knows "let's go outside". And that's just a small random sampling.
She's really getting a good grasp of her colours. While she obviously can't say them yet, or point them out when I ask her, she is able to undertand and recognize objects that are the same colour. She gets that the red ball is the same colour as the red block and the red ring. How do I know this? Because I'll set a bunch of objects out of different colours and shapes, and explain to her which ones are "red" for example, and she'll almost always pick up one of the objects of the colour we were looking at and bang it on another of the objects of the same colour. Repeatedly and I believe intentionally.
She's also getting a good grasp of her shapes. She gets that the circle goes in the circle hole, and the square goes in the square hole and so on. And she's getting better at playing with her wooden puzzles, which are non-standard shapes (like a fish and a crab and a turtle) and understanding which hole they go into even if it takes her a while to actually figure out how to get it to fit.
It's fun watching her sort all of this stuff out and make these connections. It's amazing, actually. But I am quite sure it's going to be absolutely mindboggling, I think, when she starts really talking and we get even more direct insight into how her mind is working.
If we won the big lottery and I could quit my job and not have to work, I've been thinking I might like to go back to school part time and learn more about early childhood learning and development. Like really early - ages 0-2 I think would be the most fascinating to me. Not sure I'd bother with a degree but I would love to learn a lot more about how kids learn at this early age, and how we learn what they learn.
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