Blogging Advent 3—December 15
Read Is That You, Father Christmas?
The Genial Hearth
I’ve just put the kettle on, join me for a cuppa and a chat.Archive for Bilby
Blogging Advent 3—Feast of St Lucy
Bring Dada sweet rolls in bed.
Yesterday when Puggle was making his own freshly squeezed orange juice, he was talking about making juice for Dada for breakfast. Last night I set out everything needed for breakfast.
This morning, Paddington was woken with freshly squeezed orange juice and fruit toast. Puggle carried it all in, but Bilby helped clear it away (she’s pretty good at carrying laden plates, but not completely reliable yet:-) )
Bilby’s Babble
I haven’t kept a list this week… there have just been too many new words. She’s regularly using two word sentences, and occasionally three. She combines words and signs for new meanings (shaking her head while saying a word to indicate the opposite, using ‘where’ in sign while naming what she has lost).
As long as I can see her, I can have a lengthy conversation about surprisingly involved things:-)
Of course, there are still some sounds that elude her, which means there are still a number of words which sound almost identical:-) And for new words, it can be hard to pick what they are (dwanny, for example… I worked it out eventually, but it took longer than I would have liked…)
At Play
I love watching the kids play:-)
Today, they were outside, and Puggle decided to draw a couple of chalk circles (about side plate size) in the patio. He started jumping on them, and Bilby copied him. So then, he decided that they were frogs, jumping from one lily pad to the next… so now, the patio has a whole line of orange chalk circles:-)
Blogging Advent 3—December 10
Make presents.
The day ended up being far busier than I had anticipated, so although the activity was ready to begin, Puggle and Bilby only really started on it today. Puggle is being highly industrious and productive though:-) He seems really quite excited by them (can’t give you too much detail though, I’m pretty sure some of the recipients are reading:-) )
Hide and Seek
I was nursing Cygnet in the lounge room, when Bilby came in and asked where Puggle was (his name, with a head tilt and her hands out to ask ‘where’). I repeated back to her “Where’s Puggle?”, and she responded with “Me… find!” and ran off to find him. Moments later she reappeared to tell me he was outside near the gate.
She took a breath, and repeated the whole thing:-)
I do love to see her ‘running’… you can tell it’s a run because her arms work so hard (in two planes:-) )
Reading
Puggle was snuggling after Quiet Time (he’d slept, so he was quite snuggly… this often means he’s a bit out of sorts for a little while). Bilby (who’d woken earlier) decided she was ready to read. She picked out How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
For once, I actually got in quickly enough to suggest that he could read it to her! She wriggle over, and asked him to—and he obliged. (I think it’s been a while since he has heard it… he was definitely using some of his decoding skills to read it, it wasn’t completely memorised… interesting to listen to:-) )
Since then, Bilby has picked up the same book, gone to the couch and requested that Puggle reads it to her several more times:-)
Blogging Advent 3—December 9
Read Is It Christmas?
This is a book we got from the library last year, and it was so sweet that it was a family Christmas present on Christmas Day:-)
This year Puggle is still enjoying it, and Bilby is starting to point out features of it… she’s especially keen on the baby bear hanging from the Christmas tree:-)
Blogging Advent 3—December 7
Today we read Room for a Little One
Puggle and Bilby also made the rest of the gingerbread up… I’ve really enjoyed Bilby requesting that we ‘woll, woll!’
Blogging Advent 3—Feast of Saint Nicholas
Today the task was to read The Secret of Saint Nicholas
This gave us a chance to catch up on our cooking:-) So while I put Bilby down for her nap, the boys baked:-)
Blogging Advent 3—December 5
So they shaped the gingerbread (well some of it, and there’s still more to do).
Today’s tasks were making Speculatius (which we’ll end up doing tomorrow morning) and putting out their shoes for Saint Nicholas.
Bilby’s Babble
Exterminate! (em-em-ay!)
honey
what?
stamp
water (wa-wa)
singlet (sing-ing)
plate
done
phone
This has been a week of many one-off words (but clearly of her own volition, rather than merely repeating sounds). So many that I haven’t been able to keep up… (In fact, had it not been for her first new word this week, I wouldn’t have posted… but we’re such fans… I had to share:-) )
Blogging Advent 3—December 1
First task off the bat was to make Advent Chains. This one is Bilby’s—she had some help… Puggle’s is still being constructed. You’ll see the coloured rings, they are particular days where we might do something a bit extra special. I just cut strips of paper, but because I forgot to make Christmas Eve and Christmas Day a different colour, I’ve now made a document with strips to cut out. If you choose to print it, the first page should be your ’special’ colour, and the other two your ‘ordinary’ colour.
Bilby’s Babble
rabbit
spill
wind
hose
Jane
Spoon
Playschool
dinner
side
hand (when she wants to hold your hand)
swing (fwing)
straw
knife (fife)
cut
bandaid (ba-band)
rain (ra-rain)
hey
which way?/that way (wa-way)
? (That’s the sort?) (das sa sor)
photo (fofo)
A (her brother, a-n)
press
date
gate
half
full
soap
boat
see
Happy
Bilby’s Babble
(I’m struggling to keep up at the moment! She seems to be constantly trying out new words… it’s a fun time:-) She’s also begun (last week? this week?) to use some two word sentences.)
shirt
plane
closed
face
rain
machine
Mama, I would like to do it myself! (MEE!)
sand
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven (she’s had two and four since around her birthday)
Uncle S. (sayn)
work (oo-er)
balloon is now two syllables (ba-oo)
sing
wipe
shop
by A. A. Milne
by Andrew Lang
