Day: February 23, 2006

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Family

Lunch, and Getting Stuck

I met CDF and MDF yesterday to shop at the Sam’s Club and then we went to lunch at Chic-Fil-A. The restaurant had an inside playground area, and MDF asked to go in it as soon as she saw it. So we told her she could after we ate.

Apparently she has been in one before with her friend Mackenzie, but this time she went in the playground alone and she seemed a little intimidated. She’s just a little to short to climb most of it, but I was able to help her up to the level where she could make it to the slide. Unfortunately once she got there she didn’t want to try to go any further. There was a tunnel to her right that would lead her to the slide and so I tried to get her to go through it. Only after much coaxing did she give it a try and then she apparently couldn’t make it up the slight slope and came back out the way she went in.

Eventually it was time to go and since she couldn’t get to the slide to get down, she had to climb back down the way she went up, and that posed another problem. Finally CDF crawled in the first level and helped her down.

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Daughters

Words Become Sentences

MDF is a talker, no doubt about that, and she talks very well for her age. There are things she says, especially how she pronounces words, that make me smile.

“Parringe” is what she has in her bowl for you to eat. It’s not “porange” a.k.a. porridge. I think she gets this from Mother Goose with the “Peas Porridge” song/rhyme.

And there are others, which unfortunately are not coming to mind at the moment.

She still says “t” for “c” and “d” for “g”. As in “tat” and “doddie” for cat and doggie. And I think “l” and “r” still come out as “w”: “wet’s go pway in da wiving woom.” 🙂

On the other hand, she can sing a lot of the Mother Goose rhymes, the “Bob and Larry” songs (Veggie Tales), and other children songs that are on her CD’s (Old McDonald, etc.).