Tuesday and Wednesday, July 21 & 22, 2015

I got out of the shower to find this had happened:

I was so seriously impressed, because it must have taken her forever to lay all those pennies out (182 of them, as it turned out), and she stuck with it!

She wanted to know how many there were, but didn't think she could count all of them (overwhelming, of course!), so I suggested that she divide them into groups of ten pennies each, and then count how many groups of ten there were. She needed some help with this, so I gathered some toothpicks, and we used those to divide them up.

Then we counted the groups, and she used the calculator on her tablet to find out how many there were (18 x 10 + 2). Then we worked on the other coins too. (At which point, she was counting her dimes, and it turns out she can count be tens to 100! I didn't know about this.)

(And then of course she threw a fit when she had to pick all the pennies up, but let's focus on the positives, eh?)

Also she volunteered that she can spell "sí" (Spanish for yes), and did so. So I asked if she could spell the other kinds ("see" and "sea") if she closed her eyes and looked at the words in her head, and she could! This is a big deal -- she's known the first letter of most words for a long time, but spelling beyond that has not come very naturally to her so far.

We went to a one-man puppet show at the library. He played his banjo and sang and told the story with the puppets. Then at the end her showed us how all the puppets work and told us he made them all himself. Lucy loved it -- she was cracking up and interacting with the show the whole time.

She also played in the sprinkler (this always involves filling with water the giant hole that she periodically digs a little deeper).

Let's see... watching Princess and the Frog, the Christmas episode of Kid History, Curious George, some random Mickey Mouse Christmas movie...

Oh, this morning she asked to look through the tub of grown up costumes, which I hauled out of the garage for her to dig through. That resulted in some great stories about things that happened before she was born and/or aware.

And always Legos. Always.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Super Mario Galaxy.

Interrupted by needing to leave for skating lessons!! OK, probably I was more excited than she was (excited to get to skate, not excited for her to skate). But she did really well! She didn't have any emotional breakdowns, which seems pretty huge. And she even wanted to keep practicing a little during the practice time after her lesson (and usually they expect that the littlest kids [of which she is one] won't keep practicing). And then she hung out with Norman and played the Phineas and Ferb game on her tablet while they waited for me to be done with my lesson.

Apparently while Norman and I were out on our date, she and Dotty watched a bunch of YouTube videos of Disney songs in foreign languages.

More Super Mario Galaxy.

Watched some Word Girl.

Played with her dolls.

I read her another book about lizards (and told her the correct pronunciation for "anole", which I had to look up last night after I read her the other book about lizards).

And then she and Norman had a chat about what tattoo parlors are like (because Norman and I were in one today).

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The big thing today was going ice skating. She asked on Friday if she could take lessons. I told her we should go sometime to see if she liked it enough to sign up for lessons in August. (I take lessons, which is why she talks about taking lessons sometimes.) She had much more stamina and determination than she did the last time I tried to get her to skate over a year ago. We also got her a little PVC pipe walker thingy -- that helped a lot. Her spirits kept up and she kept at it even though she couldn't go very fast. This is seriously a major improvement -- not sure if that's apparent!

She's really into puns lately, and explaining why they're funny. On the way out of the ice rink, there's a sign that says "Have an ice day!" (::groan::) She read it and was like, "Have an ice day! Haha! It's like have a nice day, but it's have an ice day instead!" She did this the other day with something on Jake and the Neverland Pirates, too. Something about a bird's birthday (bird-day)?

What else what else?  I think she did in fact work on the house lizard house outside a little more.

She played Mario Kart with Norman.

She sat with Norman and read through that Batman book from last night again to herself.

She spent some time on her computer on a coding website, which is actually really cool. I found it for her after she asked me one day about making her own website. (I suggested a blog -- turned out she meant from scratch.)

She seems to spend a lot of time sorting her beads? Every now and then she'll make something with them, but mostly she sorts them into categories and sees where certain kinds of beads will fit on other toys she has.

And her favorite hobby at the moment seems to be talking about Disney World every waking moment. This is my fault for letting it slip so far in advance of our trip (months and months) that we will be going there this fall. And then giving her the Disney World vacation planning DVD to watch to her heart's content. Oops. There was also a point today where she decided to be a travel agent. I was supposed to tell her what kind of stuff I like, and she would suggest a vacation. (I lobbed her the easy "I like Disney movies and camping." She was all over that.)