Quotidianitas
Sep. 2nd, 2008 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheWork sucks. No, really.
Back hurts a little less than usual. New physiotherapist making inroads.
Abi has just lost another tooth (semi-incisor). She also has spent the last couple of days home with a throat infection. Mim says she has stopped being a soggy lump on the couch and started getting bored and restless. She will probably be back at school tomorrow.
Once a week or so I get to read a bedtime story to Abi. (And ostensibly to Susi, but she is usually too rambunctious for it to really count.) And when I do, my choice is another couple of pages of A Comet in Moominland. Abi loves it. Her favourite character is the Snork Maiden. (We think it is because she is the girl with whom Abi identifies, although the scene we just read was where the Snork was trying to chair a meeting about what to do about the comet, and generally being a stuck-up twerp proclaiming his own in-charge-ness, while the Snork Maiden calmly sent everyone off to gather firewod and such, then made fruit soup for dinner with whatever they happened to have on them, then they all went to bed on a mat she made... or in other words, while she was saying girly and useless things in the meeting ("Oh my!", "Oh dear!", &c), she then went ahead and was just competently in charge.)
Abi's reading is really really good. She is eating up grade 1 books, and even has a red hot go at the Moomintrolls (although she usually manages a paragraph before getting tired of the effort and asking me to continue). She regularly reads to her sister. Mr Men/Little Miss books are standard fare, but she has been bringing poetry home from school this term as well.
In Italian class in school she has learned to count to ten in Italiano, and after reading a Dora the Explorer book, she can count to six in Spanish as well. And the Spanish words don't faze her either: ¡Hola!, ¡Vámonos!, ¡Mira!
Next step: a haon, a dó, a trí, a ceathair, a cuig, ... bwa-ha-ha!
Her writing needs work. I've been having an interesting time explaining to her the concept of x-height, ascenders and descenders. She's starting to figure it out. I started drawing parallel lines to illustrate the letter alignment, and she's begun drawing lines herself, and practising writing within them.
Susi's language is getting better. She uses "I" more consistently. Instead of declaiming "No!", she now tells us why not; usually along the lines of "No, mummy, me-- I don't want [whatever she's being offered]: It's yucky!". She has also picked up from somewhere an exclamation, which is used whenever she sees anything worthy of exclaiming about: "Oh my gosh!"
We have no idea where she got this from, but it's amazingly cute.
*Kvell*
Back hurts a little less than usual. New physiotherapist making inroads.
Abi has just lost another tooth (semi-incisor). She also has spent the last couple of days home with a throat infection. Mim says she has stopped being a soggy lump on the couch and started getting bored and restless. She will probably be back at school tomorrow.
Once a week or so I get to read a bedtime story to Abi. (And ostensibly to Susi, but she is usually too rambunctious for it to really count.) And when I do, my choice is another couple of pages of A Comet in Moominland. Abi loves it. Her favourite character is the Snork Maiden. (We think it is because she is the girl with whom Abi identifies, although the scene we just read was where the Snork was trying to chair a meeting about what to do about the comet, and generally being a stuck-up twerp proclaiming his own in-charge-ness, while the Snork Maiden calmly sent everyone off to gather firewod and such, then made fruit soup for dinner with whatever they happened to have on them, then they all went to bed on a mat she made... or in other words, while she was saying girly and useless things in the meeting ("Oh my!", "Oh dear!", &c), she then went ahead and was just competently in charge.)
Abi's reading is really really good. She is eating up grade 1 books, and even has a red hot go at the Moomintrolls (although she usually manages a paragraph before getting tired of the effort and asking me to continue). She regularly reads to her sister. Mr Men/Little Miss books are standard fare, but she has been bringing poetry home from school this term as well.
In Italian class in school she has learned to count to ten in Italiano, and after reading a Dora the Explorer book, she can count to six in Spanish as well. And the Spanish words don't faze her either: ¡Hola!, ¡Vámonos!, ¡Mira!
Next step: a haon, a dó, a trí, a ceathair, a cuig, ... bwa-ha-ha!
Her writing needs work. I've been having an interesting time explaining to her the concept of x-height, ascenders and descenders. She's starting to figure it out. I started drawing parallel lines to illustrate the letter alignment, and she's begun drawing lines herself, and practising writing within them.
Susi's language is getting better. She uses "I" more consistently. Instead of declaiming "No!", she now tells us why not; usually along the lines of "No, mummy, me-- I don't want [whatever she's being offered]: It's yucky!". She has also picked up from somewhere an exclamation, which is used whenever she sees anything worthy of exclaiming about: "Oh my gosh!"
We have no idea where she got this from, but it's amazingly cute.
*Kvell*