Saturday, August 09, 2008

independence

She's starting to become a little more independent these days, and telling me, "Seff, Mommy," when she's done something by herself (putting her shoes on herself, climbing up on Mommy's bed by herself, etc.).

She's also started playing more independently, just in the last week or two. She still says, "Mommy, pway?" and she wants me to go in the dining room (her play room) with her, but once she gets started on something I can leave and go do something else and she'll continue to play by herself, sometimes for quite awhile. Her favorite thing lately has been to use her strands of beads as spaghetti noodles, putting them in pots and pans and serving them to me. Or she'll put the beads in her tea cups and she'll have a "pahty." Today she started calling it a "Tea Pahty." In the bathtub last week at Grandma's house we had to have "bufday pahties." We had to sing happy birthday and she blew out pretend candles. She's just a party girl!

In other news, I've come down with something and I don't really know what it is. I have cold symptoms, but it's not really a cold. It feels more like the flu--I'm so tired and have been on the couch (watching the Olympics) most of today. But I don't have a fever, so maybe it's not that. It's strange. Hopefully no one else in my family will get it.

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