Kidspace Childcare: update

Storyboards, "green" and make-believe
(by Pauline)
Ryden enjoys storyboard more than he used to. He especially likes the Fish song (AKA color song). He recognized the color green. He called out "green" as I held the fishup and asked what color fishy do you see? Ryden was also wearing a green shirt that day. As I changed his diaper he kept pulling on the sleeve of hisshirt repeatedly saying, "green, green". I repeated, "green shirt". He replied, "yeah."

I brought out our small white table and placed plates and cups around the table. I also brought over a big bowl of various food (plastic) Ryden and Payton kept hitting their cups into each other saying, "cheers". Then they pretended to drink. They also shared a plate taking turns placing different foods on them, making eye contact, pretending to take bites of their food, randomly calling out what foods they recognized. Rice, apple, tomato, banana.

Shit

Ryden is going through a very cute stage. He babbles constantly. He also likes to whisper. Very cute. Unfortunately he has also learned to appropriately use the word, "shit" ;-(. He was playing with chapstick the other day and he dropped it by accident and said very clearly but quietly, "shit". Not loud or anything, but he knows. In fact the tone in which he says it, reminds me of, well, me. shit! I mean shucks! It's funny but I try to put on a serious face and say, "shucks" as if I were correcting his pronunciation.

Heppi

Ryden is changing so much so quickly. One funny thing I am noticing is that some of his English is sounding like Japanese English. He learned the words 'empty' and 'full' from an NHK TV show and he pronounces 'full' like, "hool". Also when he is happy, he says, "heppi". It is pretty hilarious, but hopefully he'll get the pronunciation down correctly eventually.


He has a cheesy cheshire cat smile when he's really happy, showing his teeth.

He got along well with the Finaly family during our stay in Sonoma. Tim put him to bed twice or more without a fuss. Dad (or "papi") played a lot with him and he received a lot of love. Maggie also watched him a fair amount.

In Menlo Park, Tristan (Zander's cousin's kid) played with him and showed him how to climb furniture, throw things and to slide on the floor...lovely.

Sometimes now Ryden tells us "unko (poop)" when he has just filled his diapers. A good thing to know when you are just about to buckle up on the airplane.