Highlights from the past few weeks:
Kitty and I went to a community theatre performance of 1776 The Musical. I thought it was funny and very well done. Kitty liked it, but discovered she can no longer just be an audience member, as she sees it all through theatre eyes. Her observations and comments afterwards were interesting. Although I was involved in drama in my high school days, I'm blissfully unaware of all the marks, cues, lighting, and other elements whose theatrical terms I don't even know. Kitty's school production of Jungle Book (the play, not the musical) was wonderful. The sets and costumes she designed were impressive. It was something to see her creations brought to life. And, I think the monkeys (of which she was one) had the most fun of all the characters! We're so proud of her!
We're really proud of Fatima, too. She received a Terrific Kid award this month! Her classmates voted to honor her for the character trait of uniqueness. Each Terrific Kid's teacher wrote a letter praising them, which was read at the ceremony. Her teacher said she "is a terrific kid who definitely showcases the core essential of uniqueness. She shows her uniqueness in countless ways including designing and making clothes, pillows, scarves, and mending items. Her artwork is extraordinary, as she demonstrates an innate talent. She solves problesm in diverse and constructive ways, always sharing her ideas. She is a unique leader and role model for others; clearly one terrific kid!"
We traveled to Atlanta for Thanksgiving, spending the holiday with Dave's sisters and their families.
We got to see - and hold :-) our great-niece Mackenzie.
Kitty enjoyed the virtually unlimited computer time she has when we're there.
As usual, we barely saw Fatima between our arrival and departure, as she was off with her cousins having fun, fun, fun!
Alas, Dollbaby did not do so well. She only slept an hour on the way there. Worse, she absolutely hated the port-a-crib. We could not lay her down to sleep if she was awake - she would just scream. And, if I waited until she fell asleep, she would wake up as we tried to lay her in the port-a-crib and scream. When we finally did get her down, she woke up in the middle of the night and we'd go through it all again. Two nights, Dave had to take her for a long drive. Once, he slept in the car for an hour waiting for her to fall asleep. Those times, we just left her sleeping in the carseat. The other night, he ended up walking her around the house for quite a while. Nap times were the same. The first night we were back home, she started to fight going to sleep, then seemed to realize she was home and in her own bed. She just relaxed, melted into the mattress and slept for 10 hours! Needless to say, she and I will be staying home for the foreseeable future.
Dollbaby has had several firsts these past few weeks:
* stacked two blocks - for the first few days, each time she smiled, giggled, clapped and looked at me to cheer her on :-)
* played peek-a-boo by moving my hands in front of and away from my face
* played hide-n-seek! She put my hands in front of my face for peek-a-boo, then hid around the corner -- 4 times! I "looked" for her in the other direction, then "found" her and she boy did she laugh - each time! She's SO fun!
* followed a direction... I asked her to get her little green ball and she went two rooms over, got it and brought it to me, smiling big! Lots of praise, claps, hugs and kisses ... which made her smile even more.
* put the phone to my ear and smiled. She does this a lot now - and she wants me to talk into the phone!
* laughs when everyone else does, which makes us laugh harder, so she does too!
* made her first phone call ~ she was playing with the phone and must have pushed redial. I heard Dave's voice and realized it was coming from the phone she'd left on the floor!
* communicated in sign language -- "eat" and "more." She uses "eat" all the time. She's signed "more" twice so far. We just received the Baby Signing Time program and watched the first dvd yesterday. She was glued to it. When Kitty and Fatima came in, they watched it with us. Hopefully, we'll all learn together and be able to avoid the grunting and pointing stage that lasted SO long with Fatima!!
* Dave heard her say "bye-bye." I haven't heard it, yet.
* switched to wanting her food room temperature instead of cold.
* decided Daddy must hold her on his right side and Mommy must hold her on her left side. If we try the opposite, she pulls and wiggles and fusses until we position her on the "correct" side. oooh, another sign of high maintenance things to come...
* played in leaves :-)
A few more snapshots of our November:
Dollbaby's use for my hand exercise ball :-)
Dollbaby really liked playing with the swords I left out after CCD.
(from the kids acting out the Fall of the Angels battle)
Our Dollbaby - A Wish Come True
She likes to put the lens cover on my camera - while I'm using it!
"Helping" me make the bed :-)
Another form of hide-n-seek...closing doors
Wishing you all a Blessed Advent!
1 comment:
Great pictures!
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