Blocks!
It looks like Grandma B might be snowed in for a little while. I better give her something to read.
Grandma B's main Christmas present for Sydney was delayed. The shipment was delayed due to availability. Then the shipment got lost somewhere in transit. So Grandma B followed up with Amazon and they quickly got another one shipped to Sydney. It arrived last week.
LEGO™ Quatro™ blocks. Yay!
Grandma B enjoys playing blocks with Sydney. Currently the only thing Sydney has are some soft, cloth blocks that Grandma B gave her when she was born. They don't stack well and Sydney is now at the age where she likes to stack.
When the box arrived Mommy made Sydney wait until Daddy got home before she could open it. Sydney somehow knew the box was for her and could hardly contain herself as we all opened it. Her excitement grew stronger as she found another container (the plastic bucket) inside the box.
Upon getting it open there was instant joy and Sydney starting pulling out large, plastic blocks. Mommy and Daddy showed her how they go together, but she seemed to sense, even without being told, that they stacked up. Even if she didn't know they locked together.
She spent the better part of the next hour pulling blocks out one by one and stacking them. Mommy and Daddy both helped her put them together after she decided where she wanted them.
The tower we built - with every single block - fell apart a couple times during the building process. This upset Sydney and we pieced it back together. It was never exactly the same, but it was good enough to make Sydney happy.
She seemed satisfied when it was completely built. And a short time later she started dismantling it. Before long the floor was scattered with bricks as Sydney had meticulously pulled every block apart and left none stuck together. Then it was time for bed and Sydney helped put all the blocks back in the tub.
Since then she's played with the blocks a lot. She is getting better at realizing that the blocks go together a certain way, but she hasn't quite mastered how exactly that works. She does get very satisfied when Mommy or Daddy places the block just right and we let her push it down.
The Sunday after the blocks arrived it was time for the AFC and NFC Championship games. Daddy watched football. Mommy went out to lunch and a little shopping with some friends. Sydney stayed home with Daddy.
Sydney usually eats lunch around 11:30 am. About 11:20 am Sydney fell asleep on Daddy's lap. It was quite precious.
Thinking it would wake her too much to carry her all the way upstairs and put her to bed I shifted her next to me on the sofa and covered her up. She slept there for almost an hour before waking up. Shorter than a normal nap for her, but still a good sleep.
You can see her Pooh teddy bear there. Since my last blog entry she has actually started to prefer having Pooh rather than Cookie when she gets up. I don't know why. If we go back in her room later to get dressed to change a diaper she still wants to get Cookie out of the crib.
We had a big snowfall (about six inches) that Friday and Saturday. By Monday it was warming up a little. It got up to above freezing. That's warm enough for the snow and ice to mostly melt off the streets and sidewalks.
One of those nights I came home and found a snowman next to the driveway. Sydney and Mommy had made it.
While at first glance it appears that the Christmas gift blocks are used for the features of the snowman they aren't. Those are some Mega Blocks™ we have out in the garage. Our friends had given them to us and we completely forgot about them. Mommy found them while trying to figure out what to use for snowman features.
They're still out in the garage because we all know that LEGO™ is better than Mega Blocks™.
Sydney's vocabulary seems to grow a little bit each day even though she frequently chooses not to talk. Other than "no" and "uh oh" (or "oh no") she has a couple other phrases she uses regularly (as opposed to single words). She likes "I got it," like when she picks up a ball. She also likes... something that completely escapes me as I write this. *Sigh* I'll have to put it in my next update.
To Mommy's satisfaction she has finally started calling her "Mama." I am still "DA!" Not, "da." But a very loud and exclaimed, "DA!"
Good luck with all the snow, Grandma B!
Grandma B's main Christmas present for Sydney was delayed. The shipment was delayed due to availability. Then the shipment got lost somewhere in transit. So Grandma B followed up with Amazon and they quickly got another one shipped to Sydney. It arrived last week.
LEGO™ Quatro™ blocks. Yay!
Grandma B enjoys playing blocks with Sydney. Currently the only thing Sydney has are some soft, cloth blocks that Grandma B gave her when she was born. They don't stack well and Sydney is now at the age where she likes to stack.
When the box arrived Mommy made Sydney wait until Daddy got home before she could open it. Sydney somehow knew the box was for her and could hardly contain herself as we all opened it. Her excitement grew stronger as she found another container (the plastic bucket) inside the box.
Upon getting it open there was instant joy and Sydney starting pulling out large, plastic blocks. Mommy and Daddy showed her how they go together, but she seemed to sense, even without being told, that they stacked up. Even if she didn't know they locked together.
She spent the better part of the next hour pulling blocks out one by one and stacking them. Mommy and Daddy both helped her put them together after she decided where she wanted them.
The tower we built - with every single block - fell apart a couple times during the building process. This upset Sydney and we pieced it back together. It was never exactly the same, but it was good enough to make Sydney happy.
She seemed satisfied when it was completely built. And a short time later she started dismantling it. Before long the floor was scattered with bricks as Sydney had meticulously pulled every block apart and left none stuck together. Then it was time for bed and Sydney helped put all the blocks back in the tub.
Since then she's played with the blocks a lot. She is getting better at realizing that the blocks go together a certain way, but she hasn't quite mastered how exactly that works. She does get very satisfied when Mommy or Daddy places the block just right and we let her push it down.
The Sunday after the blocks arrived it was time for the AFC and NFC Championship games. Daddy watched football. Mommy went out to lunch and a little shopping with some friends. Sydney stayed home with Daddy.
Sydney usually eats lunch around 11:30 am. About 11:20 am Sydney fell asleep on Daddy's lap. It was quite precious.
Thinking it would wake her too much to carry her all the way upstairs and put her to bed I shifted her next to me on the sofa and covered her up. She slept there for almost an hour before waking up. Shorter than a normal nap for her, but still a good sleep.
You can see her Pooh teddy bear there. Since my last blog entry she has actually started to prefer having Pooh rather than Cookie when she gets up. I don't know why. If we go back in her room later to get dressed to change a diaper she still wants to get Cookie out of the crib.
We had a big snowfall (about six inches) that Friday and Saturday. By Monday it was warming up a little. It got up to above freezing. That's warm enough for the snow and ice to mostly melt off the streets and sidewalks.
One of those nights I came home and found a snowman next to the driveway. Sydney and Mommy had made it.
While at first glance it appears that the Christmas gift blocks are used for the features of the snowman they aren't. Those are some Mega Blocks™ we have out in the garage. Our friends had given them to us and we completely forgot about them. Mommy found them while trying to figure out what to use for snowman features.
They're still out in the garage because we all know that LEGO™ is better than Mega Blocks™.
Sydney's vocabulary seems to grow a little bit each day even though she frequently chooses not to talk. Other than "no" and "uh oh" (or "oh no") she has a couple other phrases she uses regularly (as opposed to single words). She likes "I got it," like when she picks up a ball. She also likes... something that completely escapes me as I write this. *Sigh* I'll have to put it in my next update.
To Mommy's satisfaction she has finally started calling her "Mama." I am still "DA!" Not, "da." But a very loud and exclaimed, "DA!"
Good luck with all the snow, Grandma B!
posted by Tah at 9:42 PM
2 Comments:
Oh thanks! Great pictures. It's snowing right now and we're supposed to get much more tonight so I really needed some Sydney pictures.
The photo of "sleeping Sydney" is particularly beautiful -- thanks for the great blog!
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