Rolly Dinosuar, Free Will and Fridge Magnets :) (by sarah)
Jean is developing fast - less than a week ago we were awakened by the sounds of rolly dinosuar. This is a big dinosuar toy that you put little roll-along-balls in, the balls either fall down some steps which are its tail, slide down a ramp and out of its mouth, or travel through its belly making a pendulum swing. This is all accompanied by noise of the jinggly fun baby toy type and if the ball comes out of the mouth it even raws!
Now for a baby its quiet hard to post the balls in as a) you need coordination, b) the holes are only just big enough and c) you have to remember to let go of the ball but not to soon! The next morning after we heared her setting it off - she had had a contanment breach of the nappy kind so we had to clear her cot of everything for a wash - including rolly dinosuar and tho! She had been stuffing no the roll alongs balls in it but the little juggling bean bags instead - some of which where really wedged! So is had worked outposting things but not whats was theright shape.
That day though we showed her again about puttint the balls into rolly dinosuar and lo! She did it with a 25% success rate - now its the first thing she does when she is put in the cot and she had an 80% success rate 🙂
On the slightly daunting side she has also discovered her own version of no - and its stroppy and normally accumpanied by a glare to scorch! She has taken to bad manniedly through her food or bottle over the edge of the high chair if she doesnt want it - I'm trying to show her that she just need to shake her head to say no - having moderate success - ie she shakes her head and if I dont move on it quick enough she still throughs it angrily over the side - little moo cow! Also yesturday we had the first histrionics - I took her emty bottle away to replace it with her fresh full one and I swear it it was a tantrum 🙁 She snatched it back! And wailed crossly at me, so i took it away again to give her the fresh bottle - which she throw and snatched back the old one - so I took the old one away completely - feeling mean and telling her not to snatch and wondering if she understands enough yet - I think she realised she had done something wrong becuase she stopped glaring and wailing and just looked worried 🙁 But we read Elmas Friends together and she cheered up.
I also made her cry becuase I found some of her toys 'discarded' in a cardboard box we had given her, so I started taking them out and giving them back to her and she cried - I put them back in the box and she stopped - I asked her if they were supposed to be in their and she put another toy in the box - opps! Silly Mummy there she was painstakingly putting all heer toys in a box and I come along and take them out again! Oh well.
We did have lots of fun with the letter fridge magnets that me and Al got as a wedding presant 🙂
She mastered pulling them off and putting them back on the fridge and we spelt her name (well obviously I spelt her name!) - the fun only ended when she desided too start eating them - so I substitueted them with baby bell and everyone was happy 🙂
JEan understands the concept of sharing - sort of ie shes got the hang of giving you something - including sharing her bottle with you (you have been warned) but she hasnt quiet got the idea of no more yet - again I'm hoping that this will help with the food issues I mentioned earlier!
Thu 29th Jun 2006 9:32 am 
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