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[Previous entry: "So thanks for that"] [Next entry: "The line"] 07/10/2008: "What's that kid been up to?"
Quite a lot, actually. Apparently, you hit a year old and things really start cooking. Today I was thinking about all the new stuff Dessa has started doing in the past month and it just blows me away.  I love the "Who me?" look on her face. When we redid the kitchen last year, I paid particular attention to what would be in the lower drawers. I was only about 4 months pregnant at the time, but I knew that the pending baby would be mobile eventually and plastic containers seemed the logical thing to put in a drawer that would be so accessible. Turns out to have been the right move, but it's wild that the time has come so soon. This kid moves. She's gone from a few tentative steps just before her birthday to zooming around the place with that funky half-falling walk that toddlers have. She'll walk around in circles just to be moving.  It is due in no small part to Riley that Dess gets around the way she does. Even before she could walk, he would sit about 2 feet in front of her and watch her struggle to get to him. Then, when she was mere inches from touching him, he'd stand up, saunter another 2 or 3 feet away and sit down again. My cat is a jerk sometimes, but he's pretty funny with the baby.  Riley is not the only animal that thrills Dessa to pieces. My mom's dog, Sally, is as much a fan of Dessa as the other way around. They get on quite well, as you can see from this picture from 4th of July. Dessa can't say "Sally" yet, but she did start saying "Puppy" last night (which sort of freaked me out because I haven't been teaching her that one and she was holding her "Puppy Love" book and bringing it to me to read when she said it). Her vocabulary is growing. Besides "Mommy", "Mama", "Daddy" and "Nana", which were her longtime staples, she now says, "Puppy", "Mandy" (which comes out "Manny") and "Ella" (which she pronounces "Ewwa" and repeats ad infinitum when Ella is actually in her presence). When Elmo comes on (or even when she sees his picture) she cries out, "Mo!" as if they are very tight friends. She says "Moo" when she sees a cow and will buzz like a bee if you prompt her. The buzzing was particularly entertaining when she wore this outfit for the day:  The dress just cracks me up. She looks like Lucy Ricardo on drugs. What else. Oh, Dess has been signing "more" when she's eating and I have to give myself a pat on the back for teaching her such a polite sign. This way, you see, she doesn't talk with her mouth full. Aahahahahaaa! Yes, she does. Don't listen to me. The child stuffs her mouth with Cheerios regularly and then tries to communicate verbally, dripping cereal as she goes. My aunt got her this thing called a Munchie Mug for her birthday and if Dessa were Oprah, this would be one of her Favorite Things and everyone in her toddler audience would have one. I hand over the Munchie Mug, Dess sticks her hand in and withdraws a honking handful of Cheerios, which she stuffs in her face and then she toddles away. It's a hilarious thing to watch, but if I have to get the vacuum cleaner out once more this week, we're going to have serious issues. Around here we refer to the Munchie Mug as the "gom jabbar". Make of that what you will. Dessa's great love these days is books. She has her favorites but will page through anything you give her. One of her latest faves is one that her Auntie AC got her for her birthday. It's a very short (4 page) story about a tiger ("Tiger is king of this jungle" (turn the page), "One day he decides to go for a walk" (turn the page), "A banana falls on Tiger's head! (turn the page), "Monkey acts innocent" (and there's the monkey up in a tree looking all, "Wasn't me, man. Must have been a banana plane flying overhead"). The great attraction of this admittedly basic plot is that there's a button in the lower right hand corner of the book that, when pressed, emits a tinny tiger roar that Dessa is fascinated by. So I leave you with this, a short lesson in taking the simple things to heart:  |
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