We’re at the end of two weekends spent in Bend, which was a lovely vacation interrupted by a week of work. Clare doesn’t sleep very well over there, which is frustrating for us, but we all have a good time anyway. There’s lots of running, hiking, playing and some relaxing for Mom and Dad. Though on this trip our hiking was a little bit limited. Someone (who shall remain nameless) has decided that she doesn’t like either the Kelty backpack or the Ergo carrier, thank you very much. This same nameless one wants to walk and can sort of be pacified with crackers but usually ended our hikes being carried on someone’s shoulders.
Our girl seems to have developmental spurts focusing on gross motor skills, fine motor skills or verbal skills one at a time. Suddenly she’ll go from crawling to walking within a few weeks, but she won’t add any new words during that time and almost seems clumsier with her fine motor skills. Now that she’s pretty much mastered walking (no more crawling for this toddler!) she’s adding new words left and right. Her new words include “Mama” (yay!), “hungry,” “rock,” “vroom (when playing with cars),” “bir(d),” and “Bampa.” We’re also figuring out Clare’s words for some things – “Ish” for shoes, “bonky” for her blanket, “bookabah” for peekaboo and a few others that she’s probably been telling us for a while but we hadn’t connected with a specific object.
Here are some cute pictures that my mom took of Clare and her “Bampa” washing the car. Clare always has a special smile for her Bampa, and the feeling is mutual.
Our girl seems to have developmental spurts focusing on gross motor skills, fine motor skills or verbal skills one at a time. Suddenly she’ll go from crawling to walking within a few weeks, but she won’t add any new words during that time and almost seems clumsier with her fine motor skills. Now that she’s pretty much mastered walking (no more crawling for this toddler!) she’s adding new words left and right. Her new words include “Mama” (yay!), “hungry,” “rock,” “vroom (when playing with cars),” “bir(d),” and “Bampa.” We’re also figuring out Clare’s words for some things – “Ish” for shoes, “bonky” for her blanket, “bookabah” for peekaboo and a few others that she’s probably been telling us for a while but we hadn’t connected with a specific object.
