Dancing Feet and Memories
Genevieve has recently learned the joys of dancing. She loves the concept of it. When driving in the car she'll take anything handy and shake it around violently and proudly declare "DANCING!!!" This could be her bunny, shoes or even a pair of sunglasses.
She doesn't just make inanimate objects dance. She'll also dance herself though she only seems to know the Mexican hat dance as all her dances involve stamping her feet quickly in place. I guess she marches to the beat of a different drummer because she doesn't care what music is playing, if any.
She also understands that others can dance and demands it often. "Dance!" she'll shout. After a quick little jig she'll either say, "Again!" or repeat "Dance!" Like most things she doesn't seem to tire of this but if you are the one dancing it grows old pretty quickly. Carrie watched as my mother was forced to wiggle for about 15 minutes.
G also seems to have passed some new developmental milestone. She no longer just remembers nouns; she also remembers actions. Before she only remembered things like swing, chair or ball, or that was all she could say, but now seems to remember an actual event. The other day a girl waved at her from another car. For several hours she told us how the girl had waved at her. "Girl. Waved. Car." She even mentioned it the next day at breakfast. Yesterday we put her on a swing that looked like an airplane and she loved it. After her bath that evening with no prompting from us she said, "Plane swing. Fun. Liked it."
This is all well and good but it is just a matter of time before she starts remembering things at inopportune times. Like when she'll decide to tell airport security that daddy has a hole in his underwear, that daddy stepped in cow poop in the field or even worse that Genevieve has weapons of mass destruction in her diaper. Hmm....I guess it is time to stop making jokes like that around her.
She doesn't just make inanimate objects dance. She'll also dance herself though she only seems to know the Mexican hat dance as all her dances involve stamping her feet quickly in place. I guess she marches to the beat of a different drummer because she doesn't care what music is playing, if any.
She also understands that others can dance and demands it often. "Dance!" she'll shout. After a quick little jig she'll either say, "Again!" or repeat "Dance!" Like most things she doesn't seem to tire of this but if you are the one dancing it grows old pretty quickly. Carrie watched as my mother was forced to wiggle for about 15 minutes.
G also seems to have passed some new developmental milestone. She no longer just remembers nouns; she also remembers actions. Before she only remembered things like swing, chair or ball, or that was all she could say, but now seems to remember an actual event. The other day a girl waved at her from another car. For several hours she told us how the girl had waved at her. "Girl. Waved. Car." She even mentioned it the next day at breakfast. Yesterday we put her on a swing that looked like an airplane and she loved it. After her bath that evening with no prompting from us she said, "Plane swing. Fun. Liked it."
This is all well and good but it is just a matter of time before she starts remembering things at inopportune times. Like when she'll decide to tell airport security that daddy has a hole in his underwear, that daddy stepped in cow poop in the field or even worse that Genevieve has weapons of mass destruction in her diaper. Hmm....I guess it is time to stop making jokes like that around her.
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