midnight musings

Well, it's not quite midnight, but I can't sleep and it's only 44 minutes away as I begin typing this, so I declare it close enough to call it midnight!

Our little one is sick again. It seems one of us always is these days. My husband and I are both better, so that means it's her turn to get sick. She's coughing a lot and I'm going to keep her home from church tomorrow--no use passing all of those germs along to the other innocent toddlers (though that's where many of her germs seem to originate!). A friend of mine said recently that her son is sick every Tuesday, after being in the church nursery on Sunday! Then he gets better, goes to church again and gets sick again on Tuesday! Our situation isn't quite so predictable, but I can understand her point.

Spinning has become a popular dance move for her lately. She's been getting into The Wiggles a lot lately (and I mean a lot....I pretty much know every song and dance by heart. Move over, Laurie Berkner! --though she still loves those CDs, too). She's been watching Wiggles videos from the library, though--right up her alley with all of the music and dancing. Well, somehow she got the idea to spin around to the music, in addition to her usual repertoire of dance steps. She turns and turns around until she nearly (and sometimes actually does) start to fall down, frequently dangerously close to the coffee table, so I'm trying not to encourage the spinning! It's cute and all, but a big bump on the head wouldn't be worth the cuteness of it.

I hope you all don't mind, but I just have to brag for a minute about her....not that this whole entire blog isn't one giant brag-fest about our daughter, but this is blatant bragging at it's best! For Christmas we gave her this set of foam letters and numbers for the bath tub. She's in love with them and gets even more excited than usual about taking her bath every night because of them. Well, several nights ago while she was holding up letters one by one, I started telling her what letter they were and what sound they made. For some reason she became really excited about the letter "T" and its sound and kept repeating it over and over: "t, t, t, t, t, t" (the sound, not the actual name of the letter). So the next night I found the T and did it again. We did this for a few nights. So the night before last I asked her, "Can you find the letter T?" and then made the "t" sound for her. She looked and looked all around the tub--mind you, there are 26 letters floating around and the numbers 0-9. She couldn't find it, so I pointed in the general direction and she found it. So last night we asked her again, and without any prompting about where it was, she found it and held it up proudly! She picked it out of all of the letters of the alphabet! I couldn't believe it. Then she proceeded to do the same thing with "O!" That's another one we had worked on and that she seems to like a lot (why you like one letter over all of the others, I'm not sure, but she seems to have her favorites--she likes to play with the W and M a lot, too--I think because they look almost identical and she likes having two of everything--one in each hand. Incidentally, those are my initials! She also likes the B and 8--again, because I think she thinks they look the same! Funny girl!). Looks like it's time to go buy some magnet letters for the fridge--that's how I learned my letters and learned to read. Can you tell I'm a teacher? Already pushing my not quite 2-year-old to read!!!!

Well, it's not midnight yet, but I don't think I have enough musings to make it for another 19 minutes, and my eyes are now getting sleepy, so I'll say goodnight!