Teatopia

Baby Einstein?!?

I haven't blogged about Olivia as much lately (the horror!), so it's time to catch up a bit.

She's at that stage where her vocabulary has exploded. She's like a little sponge! Just this morning, she brought me my chapstick (which I usually keep hidden to keep her from eating it) and she said, "meh-meh (this is what she calls me), shash-tish (chapstick), peeeze? peeze?" So of course, how could I say no? She's using her "polite" words. She says "thank you" too!

And then when we got in the car to go to playgroup at the museum (I hosted it today), she pulled at her straps and whined, "tight! tight!" I didn't even know she knew this word, except that I'll tell James, "you're making it too tight!" That's the problem with these cloth diapers. They are puffy and I've had to adjust all her straps differently. Still, I was excited that she could communicate her discomfort. She's been putting her hands in her mouth and telling me "owwww" too (more teething). I'm so glad to know these things. My mom thinks it's time I potty train her since she also tells me when she poops. She's been holding herself and telling me "tee-tee" but I'm finding that it's usually too late by the time she's told me.

But this takes the cake. This is the unusual one. I'm not even sure what to think of this. Either my child is a freaking genius or this is a huge coincidence. Yet, she's done it a few times. She has doodler thingy that we use to draw pictures all the time. I usually draw a duck and ask her what it is. Lately, we've played this game: I'll tell her what to draw (things she knows), and she scribbles, hands it to me, and claps for herself. There has never been any real resemblence, but I wouldn't expect there to be. She's 15 months. Well, the other day, she handed this to me and said "duck" and clapped. This is what she drew:

I thought there wasn't any way she could be coordinated enough to make a dot for an eye (like I make mine), but then I erased it and asked her to do it again, and the next drawing resembled this one fairly well, and it had an eye. Is it possible? I'd say no, except that she did it 3 times. I'll try to take pictures the next time. She hasn't wanted to draw lately. In fact, all she's done is whine and yell for the last week because of those evil eye teeth! She didn't play with ANY of the kids at playgroup today.

I don't want to brag-- that's totally not the intention here-- but my husband is seriously a genius. He's highly gifted, I won't lie. Almost freakishly so. Sometimes I think he's not completely with the rest of us, and by that, I don't mean that we're not smart, just that he seems like he's in his own world. He's always thinking about things, analizing, and calculating. Quite frankly, it drives me nuts sometimes and we argue over it, but we also laugh about it. :-) I have wondered if the SEVERE epilepsy he had as a child somehow did something to his brain, opened it up somehow, like in "Phenomenon". :-) I want Olivia to be smart, but I don't want her to be one of those freaky genius kids playing chess on TV. I want her to be normal!!! Like me! :-) j/k My husband probably would not have interested me in high school. He was in a different group from me (isn't it all so stupid now?), but by the time I met him, I had grown up. I was fascinated by how smart he was and I found it attractive even. I even found the fact that he wore glasses to be sexy. HAHA! I'm such a dork now. :-) Anyway, sometimes I think Olivia is going to be just like James, and maybe already is.

Anyway, I'm loving cloth! I've been getting so much fluffy mail lately. I look forward to the mail coming every day. Is that sad or what?

Just look how cute!!!

If anyone is interested in using cloth (you're probably thinking NO WAY!), I love it and I've developed a routine/system that's made it easier. I even use cloth at night without leaks. James wasn't on board at first and didn't want the hassle of switching, or for me to spend lots of money, but now he loves it!

More Oilvia pics:

my unhappy girl-- this has been a common look over the last couple weeks. :-(

Her favorite thing: messing with mommy's computer. Oh, and she LOVEs that little chair in the background!

Off to Super Wally World to grocery shop (I hate WM, but it's so much cheaper). I might even pick up some ovulation predictors, just to make sure I am in fact ovulating, just in case we might need to know soon. *wink*

Posted by Hannah at August 8, 2007 02:33 PM