Saturday, October 30, 2010

Test blog from phone

Tamsin playing dress up
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Fall morning

Tamsin and I were the first ones up today (as with every day). We were walking past the bedroom where Mike was still asleep, and Tamsin put her finger to her mouth and said, "Shhhh... QUIET!!" It was so funny because even though the shhh was pretty good, quiet was said in her usual very loud declarative voice.

Then we went for a walk. It started out slow because Tamsin had to pick up and carry every twig we passed along the way. Finally I picked her up. She was chattering away like always, but then I realized she kept saying Y! Y!. I saw she still had one of her twigs and it was forked at one end just like a Y.

Later on we passed a house with pumpkins on a low wall. I noticed them because I heard Tamsin counting 1...2...3...4...5...6 Pumps!! (how pumpkin sounds for her). I looked over, and, sure enough, there were 6 pumpkins in a row. Here they are:

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

No no yes

This video is dark because Tamsin was supposed to be going to sleep. Poor little girl has a stuffy nose and a fever, but she's still pretty happy considering. She's been running around saying No No Yes Yes because she has a book with no nos and yeses. She'll even do something she knows she shouldn't and say No No! Doesn't stop her from doing it, but at least she knows...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

In case you didn't believe me...

Sorry about the quality - I was holding her.

Bragging about Tamsin

I think it's time for a post just to brag about all of the amazing things Tamsin can do now. I really don't know if she's all that advanced or not, just that I'm completely blown away by so many things! Today while eating dinner, out of nowhere, she started counting. I've heard her count before to 3 or 4, but she went all the way to 10! She also can spell her name and will just randomly start yelling T! A! M! S! I! N! She also knows her colors and shapes and the alphabet (sometimes). The other day she brought me a shape book and then went through and pointed to each one and said Square! Oval! Triangle! She sees letters on something and will point and say M! or B! She knows most of them. She says so many words. Her diction isn't always clear but I guess we can forgive that in a 19 month old, and we usually at least understand what she's trying to say. Her favorite phrase right now is All gone! She'll move all of her food off of her tray to the table so she can say it, or her blocks from the couch to the floor so she can look at the couch and say All gone! She is very excited about car horns. When she hears a car unlock she yells Bop! Bop! (Beep beep). She'll pick up car keys and pretend to push a button and yell Bop! Bop! I want to post video of all of this, but she doesn't perform on command and usually tries to grab the phone or camera as soon as she sees it. I promise I'm not making up any of this!