My girls continue to astound me.<\/p>\n
For weeks, Kulia has been pushing up on all fours and rocking. Well, yesterday she fit all the pieces together before our unbelieving eyes. She popped up, pushed with her feet and reached with her hands and achieved crawl. I don’t know whether to be amazed or scared. Probably both. She’s still wobbly and can’t go more then a foot or two but all the requirements are there. She’s just waiting to kick in the afterburners and take off.<\/p>\n
And Leina? Well, she is the ultimate talker still. I had the girls up at the park yesterday and I was chatting up another mom who’s son was a month older than Leina. He was way beyond her physically – jumping off the play structure, running over the bridge and climbing up the slide. Leina was carefully picking her way up the jungle gym gabbing the whole time and the other mom commented on her incredible speech. Her son would say, “mommy, up slide!” Leina’s version was “mommy I want to go up the slide and then you can hold my hand on the other side and catch me at the bottom so I can try the swings and you can push me fast but not too fast ’cause I might fall and have a booboo…..” We pretty much tuned her out and chatted until Leina ran up to me and tugged my hand.<\/p>\n
“Mommy,” she began, “I want to go on the suspension bridge.”<\/p>\n
There was a moment of stunned silence and then the other mom turned to me and exclaimed, “what did she just say!”<\/p>\n
I wasn’t sure I had heard correctly myself so I bent down and said, “what did you say, honey?”<\/p>\n
“I want to go on the suspension bridge,” Leina replied pointing to the bridge.<\/p>\n
“Wow, that’s amazing. Where did she learn that?” asked the mom.<\/p>\n
“Well, she watches lots of Bob the Builder,” I began, “and her dad’s an engineer.”<\/p>\n
“oh, well, that explains it!” said the mom.<\/p>\n
Then that evening, Leina upted the ante even further. I was trying to settle her with her evening video and held up her two options.<\/p>\n
“I want to watch ba-woo mommy,” Leina said.<\/p>\n
“You want to watch the blue one?” I asked, holding the blue video toward her.<\/p>\n
“No, mommy, I want ba-woo!” Leina demanded.<\/p>\n
“Oh, you want to watch Blue’s Clues!” I said and began rummaging through our DVD collection.<\/p>\n
“No, no mommy. Not ba-woo, BA-WOO!” Leina demanded. She was beginning to get frustrated by my lack of understanding.<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry honey, I don’t understand what you want.”<\/p>\n
Leina sat and looked at me a moment and then said…<\/p>\n
“Mommy, what is Mogli’s friend’s name?”<\/p>\n
“Mogli’s friend? His name is Baloo.” I answered.<\/p>\n
“Yes mommy,” Leina nodded sagely, “I want to watch Ba-woo.”<\/p>\n
Completely flabergasted, I quietly slipped the Jungle Book sing-a-long into the player and stared at my daughter in awe. These kids. They are so frightening sometimes. One never knows what they will do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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