This is the 100th post for ceciliajanglubetsky.blogspot.com and I have to say it has been a blast doing it. The goal is to keep it going until she is able to write it herself, so by my calculations that should be sometime around 2016....we'll see if we can keep it up.
I would like to encourage our vast audience to add your thoughts as Comments to the posts so you can be part of the blog. You can easily add a comment by clicking the comments link that appears after each post, but if you are not sure how to do it we (or maybe Karen) can show you how.. It's kind of silly but then it becomes part of the record of the blog, and you can let us know what things you like and don't like. Anyway just a thought.
I know people aren't coming here to read my ramblings, so next post I'll get back to pictures and videos, I promise.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Oh "No"!
So I have come to understand that the concept of a child's "first word" is a bit nebulous. Cecilia has occasionally said several words but has almost never used them consistently. I think "Da Da" and "Ma Ma" were the first - one of my favorite things is when I am out of the room and I walk in and she looks up at me and says "Da Da...." letting the list "a" linger. Talk about one of the great joys of life! She also says "Na Na" (for Tajamina) and has said "hi" and "bye" once or twice.
I guess for the record we will only count her official first word as something she uses regularly...and I think we unfortunately have our first entrant - "no". She knows how to shake her head when she doesn't want something and has lately occasionally backed it up with the word.
One day last week she was engaged in one of her favorite activities, playing with the open refrigerator. Whenever you open it she makes a mad dash over there and is endlessly fascinated by the contents and will stay there as long as we let here. Part of the forbidden fruit syndrome, I guess. A few weeks ago Joanne hit on this great strategy where you ask Cecilia if she can "help Mommy" and close the door. I guess her excitement at being able to help and close the door outweighed her fascination with the refrigerator. Anyway it was a brilliant strategy, because if you had to pull her away to close the door she would cry, and it was working like a charm for a while...up until last week.
There she was playing in the refrigerator and I said, "Can you help Daddy close the refrigerator? Can you close the door"? She just looked up at me and said "No!" and kept on playing. Sigh.
I guess for the record we will only count her official first word as something she uses regularly...and I think we unfortunately have our first entrant - "no". She knows how to shake her head when she doesn't want something and has lately occasionally backed it up with the word.
One day last week she was engaged in one of her favorite activities, playing with the open refrigerator. Whenever you open it she makes a mad dash over there and is endlessly fascinated by the contents and will stay there as long as we let here. Part of the forbidden fruit syndrome, I guess. A few weeks ago Joanne hit on this great strategy where you ask Cecilia if she can "help Mommy" and close the door. I guess her excitement at being able to help and close the door outweighed her fascination with the refrigerator. Anyway it was a brilliant strategy, because if you had to pull her away to close the door she would cry, and it was working like a charm for a while...up until last week.
There she was playing in the refrigerator and I said, "Can you help Daddy close the refrigerator? Can you close the door"? She just looked up at me and said "No!" and kept on playing. Sigh.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Walking
As Joanne has been saying, she's walking more than she's crawling these days.
Helping her learn to walk has been one of the coolest experiences. As with everything, she started learning at daycare watching the other kids, but Tahamina suggested we get a walker for home and keep encouraging her. At first she couldn't turn it and would bump into something and you'd have to help her, but soon she was tearing around the house with it.
One really fun thing for me was to have her push the stroller around the playground I remember one day in particular about a month ago - it was an absolutely perfect Spring day and she was pushing the stroller backwards from the front as I held onto the handles to keep it from getting away. She would occasionally fall down but would immediately get right back up and keep going. It was one of those super corny feelings that was just totally great.
Helping her learn to walk has been one of the coolest experiences. As with everything, she started learning at daycare watching the other kids, but Tahamina suggested we get a walker for home and keep encouraging her. At first she couldn't turn it and would bump into something and you'd have to help her, but soon she was tearing around the house with it.
One really fun thing for me was to have her push the stroller around the playground I remember one day in particular about a month ago - it was an absolutely perfect Spring day and she was pushing the stroller backwards from the front as I held onto the handles to keep it from getting away. She would occasionally fall down but would immediately get right back up and keep going. It was one of those super corny feelings that was just totally great.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Oops - Happy Anniversary!
So far Joanne and I are 0 for 2 on remembering our Wedding Anniversary! It is May 21, four days before Cecilia's birthday, so I can we can be forgiven. Luckily we both forget, because otherwise that could be embarrassing. I'm serving notice though - I am not going 0 for 3.
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