Posts Tagged ‘toddler’
One of the truly charming things that the toddler does is to shout out when he is really enthusiastic about something. Like, “I heard it! Bird, mommy, I heard it bird!” Or, “ant! I see it ant, mommy!” (He is fascinated by ants. Maybe because they’re down at his level, easy to see by just [...]
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Tags: animals, fun, older son, toddler, weird names
The Supreme Being
First, peeing in the car happened again today. I won’t go into details.
On to the Supreme Being. That is what older son and I have taken to calling the toddler. He is so cute and hilarious and sweet…and demanding and unreasonable and tyrannical. Reasons he has had tantrums:
1. Because his brother got to eat a [...]
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Tags: food, The Shriek, toddler
Something funny has happened. The toddler is enaging in the Shriek more than ever. But he’s realized that people hate it, that it is not nice for others’ ears. So he says “sah-wee” (sorry) afterwards, sometimes.
Well, until the last few days. Now he is saying sorry a LOT. And sometimes he seems to shriek just [...]
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Tags: minions of Satan, older son, sweetness and light, The Shriek, toddler
To my dismay, the toddler does not like Stevie Wonder. I have tried a few times. I’m going to keep trying.
But he really grooves on A Tribe Called Quest. Today he really liked Lyrics to Go. Which is a nice song. And while listening to it quietly, I discovered that in addition to “more” [...]
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Tags: language, music, sign language, toddler, weird names
The Shriek, revisited.
Actually, more like the shrieking, it’s a phenomenon and never just a single shriek. It is really, really loud and almost unbearable. Your ears hurt. Morning car rides are a common venue for the shrieking, I think because the toddler hates to be trapped in his car seat. Older son and I try to explain [...]
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Tags: older son, sweetness and light, The Shriek, toddler
The Whisper Voice
In addition to his happy shriek, the toddler has developed a whisper voice. Again, he seems to talk this way mainly to amuse me and his older brother. Older brother thinks it is hilarious. Toddler seems to be saying “da da da da da,” but in a baby whisper, and with a twinkle in his [...]
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Tags: fun, sweetness and light, toddler
The Shriek
As mentioned this summer, the toddler has a heckuva shriek. The newest development is that he is very aware of how his high-pitched shriek gets everyone’s attention and, in fact, is impossible to ignore, since it makes you cower, cover your ears, and look around nervously at glass to see if it is breaking. And, [...]
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Tags: minions of Satan, The Shriek, toddler
Housecleaning with a toddler
I am trying to tidy my house this morning. I was aware that the toddler was trying to feed the dog–I had seen him take the empty dry-dog-food scoop and pretend to be pouring food in the bowl.
I just realized that he has progressed to squirreling a handful of dry dog food out of [...]
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Tags: animals, housecleaning, minions of Satan, toddler
During cuddle time this morning, we were playing Eskimos-in-the-arctic. This means tunneling under the blankets and pretending it’s an igloo. Older son hunts our food–polar bears, caribou, the occasional seal. The toddler is the baby. I am the mommy.
Today when older son was hunting caribou, he brought back to the “igloo” one dead caribou [...]
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Tags: animals, language, older son, storytelling, toddler
The toddler’s favorite song
Baidin Fheilimi, not even in English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvoJkQ6C0Y
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Tags: music, sweetness and light, toddler
