21 March 2006
Raina's biggest accomplishment over the last month is her gross increase in food consumption. She is insatiable! She eats every two hours and these are considerable meals -- nothing piddily for miss raina. She can eat, in one sitting: a whole banana, half slice of turkey, slice of cheese, and cheerios. She also has decided that jar food is lame, especially when table food is around. She LOVES cheese, eats turkey, and tolerates pineapple. Most important to Raina is that she 1) gets to use her EIGHT TEETH! and 2) is eating when someone else is eating. If you have food, then she must have food too. And she is very vocal and persistent in her message. She has associated the high chair with food, so she frequently will crawl over to the high chair and shake it vigorously until food miraculously appears on the tray. When sitting in the chair, she rocks back and forth until more food appears. In addition, Raina will only eat when BOTH of her hands are full of food, even though she really only eats out of her right hand. And when she's finished eating, she starts to throw food on the floor. If you try to remove her from her high chair, she will suddenly claim all the food on the tray "high interest" and will grab as much of it as she can. We call it "one for the road" even though we're not certain she actually eats the food.
Raina's brain is expanding by leaps and bounds. She is very interested in learning, and so we teach her something random each day. Raina knows how to climb stairs, to clap her hands, to give high fives, to stick out her tongue and say AAHH!, to blow raspberries, and to say ah, ah, ah and pat her mouth (like an Indian), and open and close doors. In addition, she's sorting objects into containers, stacking blocks, combining cups, playing the keyboard, and -- the most impressive -- playing hide and seek. Raina is quite quick in her crawling endeavors, and she LOVES chasing and being chased by her parents. Each day, Raina plays hide and seek with her mommy. In the beginning, mommy would hide in pretty obvious places (behind pillows, while Raina was watching, etc.). Now she has progressed to watching mommy crawl down the hall and hide, and then Raina comes in pursuit. Raina diligently checks each room down the hallway, although she will get distracted by something interesting, like a basket full of socks. But, boy, does she love it when her discovers mommy! Even better is when mommy has hidden so well that it's a surprise when Raina discovers her. That always generates a bunch of laughter from Raina.
Raina's favorite room is the bathroom. She is infatuated with the bear towel, the shapes on the wall, and the texture of the wall, in addition to the hard floors and the thump, thump sound when hitting the toilet seat. She also can look at the world map over the tub. If Raina is ever in a foul mood, taking her to the bathroom is a sure fire way to make her happier. In the downstairs bathroom, a lot of this is the same except that this one was the tissue box with SIMBA!!! Raina lovingly stares at Simba and sorta simpers and smiles at him. We tried watching Lion King with Raina, but it was too fast paced. She liked it when we froze the frame so she could see Simba on the large screen.
Raina contracted the stomach flu, which resulted enormous amounts of diarrhea and Raina puking twice. She vomited all over her mommy when taking a nap -- those mental and emotional scars will never heal! -- and puked all over her high chair (which was much easier to clean!). Due to the stomach flu, Raina spent five consecutive days with her parents. She was overwhelmingly ecstatic to be returned to daycare. Parents are dull after a while.
Raina's brain is expanding by leaps and bounds. She is very interested in learning, and so we teach her something random each day. Raina knows how to climb stairs, to clap her hands, to give high fives, to stick out her tongue and say AAHH!, to blow raspberries, and to say ah, ah, ah and pat her mouth (like an Indian), and open and close doors. In addition, she's sorting objects into containers, stacking blocks, combining cups, playing the keyboard, and -- the most impressive -- playing hide and seek. Raina is quite quick in her crawling endeavors, and she LOVES chasing and being chased by her parents. Each day, Raina plays hide and seek with her mommy. In the beginning, mommy would hide in pretty obvious places (behind pillows, while Raina was watching, etc.). Now she has progressed to watching mommy crawl down the hall and hide, and then Raina comes in pursuit. Raina diligently checks each room down the hallway, although she will get distracted by something interesting, like a basket full of socks. But, boy, does she love it when her discovers mommy! Even better is when mommy has hidden so well that it's a surprise when Raina discovers her. That always generates a bunch of laughter from Raina.
Raina's favorite room is the bathroom. She is infatuated with the bear towel, the shapes on the wall, and the texture of the wall, in addition to the hard floors and the thump, thump sound when hitting the toilet seat. She also can look at the world map over the tub. If Raina is ever in a foul mood, taking her to the bathroom is a sure fire way to make her happier. In the downstairs bathroom, a lot of this is the same except that this one was the tissue box with SIMBA!!! Raina lovingly stares at Simba and sorta simpers and smiles at him. We tried watching Lion King with Raina, but it was too fast paced. She liked it when we froze the frame so she could see Simba on the large screen.
Raina contracted the stomach flu, which resulted enormous amounts of diarrhea and Raina puking twice. She vomited all over her mommy when taking a nap -- those mental and emotional scars will never heal! -- and puked all over her high chair (which was much easier to clean!). Due to the stomach flu, Raina spent five consecutive days with her parents. She was overwhelmingly ecstatic to be returned to daycare. Parents are dull after a while.
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