Suddenly Selby and Savannah Too: January 2009

Friday, January 9, 2009

My Little Fashion Plate

Selby Learns How to Play Games

We're at a holiday party in late December for our friends Mitch and Trish, who were visiting from Seattle with their adorable 5-year-old son Cameron. Although Selby kept calling him "Camera", he was still pretty smitten with her. As evidenced by this: we're sitting in the kitchen and Selby asks "Where's my baba?" (really her sippy cup). Cameron sees it on the counter and gets it for her. Selby smiles and thanks him, and then runs back over to the counter and puts the sippy cup back where it was. She then runs over to Cameron, smiles, and says "Go get it!" Cameron smiles and looks at us as if to ask "what?!" -- and then runs over and gets it again. She says thank you and then puts it back on the counter and again runs to Cameron and says, with a really big smile, "Go get it!" This happens about three more times. All the grown-ups are laughing and poor Cameron just keeps getting the bottle again.

Is Selby flirting already?

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Memory and More

Every day Tom and I are amazed at what Selby remembers. For example, today while driving in the truck, she pointed to the front seat and said "Papa's seat," then she pointed to her left and said "Grandma's seat" and then to her right and said "Mama's seat." She was pointing out who was sitting where on our drive to Sante Fe over Thanksgiving weekend. And she was correct. Another example (and a sweet one, too). There is a playground near our house that is for children a little older than Selby. I used to take her there often, and just followed her around while she climbed and jumped and played. Because this playground is designed for young children, I always banged my head while chasing after her. It is not fun. So, I stopped taking her there (after suffering a near concussion). But she ended up there with my mom (who didn't realize that that was the 'bad' playground) over Thanksgiving. I followed her around, as usual, but she stopped me to say "No, mamma. Stop. No hurt your head!" She remembered and was concerned for me.

And one more... I was cleaning out her toy boxes the other day and picked up a rubber octopus and Selby pointed to it and said "That's an octopus!" What 2-year-old can recognize an octopus?