We’re practically at the end of month thirty-two and we just posted the photos for month thirty-one. I’m sure I’m not going to get everything straight in terms of what happened during February versus what happened in March.
This was a month for new foods for Eleanor. She tried pizza and oranges. Miranda also added to the foods that she had tried with kumquats, a pummelo, and crab. We’ve gone back and forth a few times between letting the kids graze on their dinner while also watching TV (they eat quite a bit more this way), or trying to have them eat at the dining table. The benefit of eating at the dining table is that they get practice at better dinner behavior for times when we have other people over for dinner.
At the dining table, Eleanor never fails to point out two holes we have on the wall where some decoration was taken down.
ELEANOR: Look! Up there!
ME: What is it?
ELEANOR: Two holes! Hole starts with H
ME: Hole starts with H (If I don’t repeat her, Eleanor repeats herself more loudly until I respond)
MIRANDA: Hole starts with H (which sounds more like eight)
ELEANOR: Not eight, H!
MIRANDA: Hole starts with H
ELEANOR: Not eight, H!
This goes on for a little while, until either Agnes or I manages to say “That’s right” before Eleanor corrects Miranda again. Fortunately, Miranda doesn’t seem upset at all. Miranda has many more opportunities to correct Eleanor, which she doesn’t do. For instance, in a cartoon that the girls watch, a character yells “Look out below!” just before parachuting. Every time Eleanor sees the scene, she yells “Bluh luh luh low!” Nowhere close to being right, but Miranda doesn’t correct her, even though she says it very clearly.
Miranda completed her toilet training this month, which we wrote about. She’s still in the toddler daycare class, while Eleanor is in the preschool class. The daycare staff has generally been pretty good about recognizing when someone is ready to switch classes, but they haven’t mentioned anything about moving Miranda yet. She’s been visiting the preschool class off and on, but I think that has more to do with whether more toddler or preschool students have gone home by that point in the day.
When I take pictures of the kids, they always want to see the picture. Then they’ll go back to what they were doing, and sometimes they’ll say “one more!” because I’m always telling them that I want to take one more picture.
The girls often sing random songs, and when we don’t recognize them, we figure that it was something they picked up from school. One day, they were singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”. Almost none of the lyrics are correct–they just sing random sounds that approximate the lyrics, but when they get to the chorus (“Dinah won’t you blow/Dinah won’t you blow/Dinah won’t you blow your horn?”), they sing at the top of their lungs. They’re convinced they’ve figured out the lyrics: Dinosaur roar/Dinosaur roar/Dinosaur rooooooooooooar? We thought that maybe they listen to some other variation of the song at school, but no, we heard it at their school and they definitely have it wrong.