HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIGHT GIRL! and other strides...
Stacking rings in her Mom's baby dressSolvi is 1 today!!! I can’t believe it. So much has happened in her first year and yet it flew by. So far she’s been an absolute delight – charming the world with her easy, friendly nature.
Such personality!
She liked her first cake!
Olie helps.
You know you're only 1 when the wrapping paper is still the most fun.
New scooter
Happy, happy day.
The big new development for our birthday girl: she’s walking!!! This weekend we witnessed her unsteadily toddling a few paces from one object to another. But yesterday she purposefully strolled clear across the living room. That’s a definite walk. More long sojourns today confirm she’s on a roll.
Also continuing to makes strides in communication, Solvi will basically copy any social gesture after only seeing it once. Thus last week she surprised me by blowing kisses back to a teenage girl on the subway and by signing “hippo” right after I first signed it. And her communication skills are not limited to humans. Last wknd’s trip to the zoo had her “Ooo, Ooo, Ahhh, Ahhhing” to the gorillas and growling at the lions. This last vocalization is one of our new Solvi favorites. She now identifies all dinos or other carnivorous beasts with a fierce “Raaaaaarrrr.” New spoken words include many “b” sounds: bus, ball, bottle, balloon – which all come out “ba.” Signs include: car, shoes, change, book, water, train, worm, flower, dog, and apple. In dance class Solvi is one of only one or two babes that actually bounces or bangs sticks together to the beat. Last week she actually started imitating the adults’ moves, nodding her head along as we did our exercises. She is also VERY active in Oliver’s circle time at the end of school. This is when all the parents come in and we sing songs. Solvi “sings” “ahhhhh” and gestures right along to Itsy Bitsy Spider and other tunes, which is more than I can say for her brother, who by that point has usually had it with school.
And lest you think Solvi is all play and no work, she is surprisingly good at "spacial relations" exercises like shape sorting and putting rings on a stick (see above).
Also continuing to makes strides in communication, Solvi will basically copy any social gesture after only seeing it once. Thus last week she surprised me by blowing kisses back to a teenage girl on the subway and by signing “hippo” right after I first signed it. And her communication skills are not limited to humans. Last wknd’s trip to the zoo had her “Ooo, Ooo, Ahhh, Ahhhing” to the gorillas and growling at the lions. This last vocalization is one of our new Solvi favorites. She now identifies all dinos or other carnivorous beasts with a fierce “Raaaaaarrrr.” New spoken words include many “b” sounds: bus, ball, bottle, balloon – which all come out “ba.” Signs include: car, shoes, change, book, water, train, worm, flower, dog, and apple. In dance class Solvi is one of only one or two babes that actually bounces or bangs sticks together to the beat. Last week she actually started imitating the adults’ moves, nodding her head along as we did our exercises. She is also VERY active in Oliver’s circle time at the end of school. This is when all the parents come in and we sing songs. Solvi “sings” “ahhhhh” and gestures right along to Itsy Bitsy Spider and other tunes, which is more than I can say for her brother, who by that point has usually had it with school.
And lest you think Solvi is all play and no work, she is surprisingly good at "spacial relations" exercises like shape sorting and putting rings on a stick (see above).
Silly girl!
Birthday Party!
She liked her first cake!
Olie helps.
You know you're only 1 when the wrapping paper is still the most fun.
New scooter
Happy, happy day.posted by Justine at
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