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She enters stage right with pink handkerchief.
Showing posts with label Felicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felicity. Show all posts
3/19/07
3/18/07
Sad, Mad, Glad
In this video I am holding up small foam circles with faces on them corresponding to the various emotions.
If she really wants to be Cinderella....
No point in half measures. She needs to experience the entire Cinderella story. :-)
1/26/07
12/23/06
Advent calendar
This advent calendar came from her Uncle Bryce and Aunt Elisa. She gets the idea this year though is slightly frustrated by the linear process. Like all of those who like Christmas she wants to jump directly to the 25th. The stickers and finger puppets hiding inside each little box are quite a hit.
Princess time (06-11-28)
Every girl needs a tiara, a magic wand and a pink feather boa at one point in her life.
12/14/06
Work in progress
Felicity can be a little withdrawn when she first arrives at daycare in anticipation of the coming parting.
This sometimes can throw off some of her little friends who were happy to see her arrive. We had been talking about being nice to our friends and saying nice words when we see them.
We're driving the other day and she pipes up from the back seat: I used nice words with my friends, Daddy.
I praise her and ask her what she said.
Response:
No, Alyssa, that's mine. I play with it! You don't play with it!
We may need to revisit the issue. :-)
This sometimes can throw off some of her little friends who were happy to see her arrive. We had been talking about being nice to our friends and saying nice words when we see them.
We're driving the other day and she pipes up from the back seat: I used nice words with my friends, Daddy.
I praise her and ask her what she said.
Response:
No, Alyssa, that's mine. I play with it! You don't play with it!
We may need to revisit the issue. :-)
I'm brave, I'm brave
A bit of context:
I have been reading a book to Felicity called "The tunnel" which involves a sister and a brother that do not get along. There mother sends them out of the house with orders to play together down to the vacant lot. Brother finds a dark tunnel and goes through it and disappears.
Sister is nervous but overcomes this and is brave and goes through the tunnel, into the wood, passes through the forest with lions, tigers and bears and finds brother who has been turned to stone. She hugs him, he revives, they pass back through the forest etc. and arrive home for lunch with a shared understanding.
We talk a lot about being brave as being able to do things that make you nervous or afraid.
Earlier this week Felicity and I were talking about the book and she looks at me and says I'm not scared in the tunnel because I know where my daddy is. I must admit it got a little dusty in the room for a moment. :-)
Back to the main narrative. I pick her up from daycare yesterday and we go to the swimming pool. The pool has a 3 story water slide that begins fully enclosed and completely dark as you drop for 6 or 7 seconds. That was a shock the first time we did it last year.
So we climb the stairs for the first time and talk about the tunnel and the slide. We drop in and I tell her she is doing very well as we round the turns in the dark.
The next time up we sit down, 1,2,3 and we plunge into the tunnel. Suddenly I hear this little voice in the darkness going:
I'm brave, I'm brave, I'm brave. :-)
I have been reading a book to Felicity called "The tunnel" which involves a sister and a brother that do not get along. There mother sends them out of the house with orders to play together down to the vacant lot. Brother finds a dark tunnel and goes through it and disappears.
Sister is nervous but overcomes this and is brave and goes through the tunnel, into the wood, passes through the forest with lions, tigers and bears and finds brother who has been turned to stone. She hugs him, he revives, they pass back through the forest etc. and arrive home for lunch with a shared understanding.
We talk a lot about being brave as being able to do things that make you nervous or afraid.
Earlier this week Felicity and I were talking about the book and she looks at me and says I'm not scared in the tunnel because I know where my daddy is. I must admit it got a little dusty in the room for a moment. :-)
Back to the main narrative. I pick her up from daycare yesterday and we go to the swimming pool. The pool has a 3 story water slide that begins fully enclosed and completely dark as you drop for 6 or 7 seconds. That was a shock the first time we did it last year.
So we climb the stairs for the first time and talk about the tunnel and the slide. We drop in and I tell her she is doing very well as we round the turns in the dark.
The next time up we sit down, 1,2,3 and we plunge into the tunnel. Suddenly I hear this little voice in the darkness going:
I'm brave, I'm brave, I'm brave. :-)
11/26/06
11/18/06
If everything is going according to plan...
You probably have the wrong plan. Following that general rule I decide to go in and reinforce my daughters good behavior today. 45 minutes in her room doing "quiet time" - this has replaced nap - without coming out and really without incident. The reason for the silence - Dad had left a permanent fabric marker in the room. Note: it also works on plastic, wood and metal and it really is permanent. The idea of installing a wireless web cam comes to the fore again. :-)
You probably have the wrong plan. Following that general rule I decide to go in and reinforce my daughters good behavior today. 45 minutes in her room doing "quiet time" - this has replaced nap - without coming out and really without incident. The reason for the silence - Dad had left a permanent fabric marker in the room. Note: it also works on plastic, wood and metal and it really is permanent. The idea of installing a wireless web cam comes to the fore again. :-)
11/8/06
10/31/06
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