Weekly review: Week ending July 7, 2017

Posted: Jul 8, 2017 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

What a week! All of a sudden, we have a toddler: one who walks a little unsteadily, but with great enthusiasm. W- discovered that you can nudge A- to walk on her own if you give her something to carry and ask her to take it to someone. After a few trips back and forth, A- got the hang of it. She still cruises from time to time, and she prefers to walk holding our hands, but she'll also toddle towards the sprinkler or across the deck. Whee! She also managed to put her shoes on by herself, and practised putting on her glasses in front of a mirror. (Which she can recognize herself in, yay!)

We got a second-hand Learning Tower, and A- has been making great use of it in the kitchen. She imitates the way we wash dishes, scramble eggs, and cut (she has playdough and her knife). New words: Gyo(za), ham, noo(dles). Also exciting: A- has been working on rinsing and spitting, which is an important precursor to being able to use fluoride toothpaste!

Nilda brought glue, pompoms, and glitter. A- particularly enjoyed shaking glitter all over the glue-covered piece of paper. I followed up on Nilda's suggestion of plaster of Paris, and we've been making casts of A-'s hand print. A- got to the point of waiting for me to press her hand into the playdough to make the hand mold. Our field trip to AGO was practically a footnote to such an eventful week.

We've been working on helping her practise waiting, too. Sometimes it's easy to keep her occupied with songs and sometimes she's harder to settle, but that's normal.

On my side: analytics SQL, some time visualization, nd lots of revving up of my early childhood education research. A-'s learning tons, and I remember there were quite a few resources I came across early on that looked like they would be more useful around this age. So much to learn for all of us! =)

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Sketches

Focus areas and time review

Business (8.6h – 5%)
- Earn (3.8h – 43% of Business)
  - ☑ Update data extract
- Build (4.9h – 56% of Business)
  - ☑ Prepare invoice
  - ☑ Batch edit for categories
  - ☑ Check infinite loops for get_color
- Connect (0.0h – 0% of Business)
Relationships (0.5h – 0%)
Discretionary – Productive (8.1h – 4%)
- Drawing (3.8h)
- Emacs (0.4h)
  - ☑ Set up Cron
  - ☑ Try out planetplanet
  - ☑ Figure out how to blacklist
  - ☑ Fix unicode
- Coding (0.5h)
- Writing (1.1h)
Discretionary – Play (0.9h – 0%)
Personal routines (13.9h – 8%)
Unpaid work (10.8h – 6%)
A- (Childcare) (72.1h – 42% of total)
Sleep (52.9h – 31% – average of 7.6 per day)

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2 comments

grep72

2017-07-10T09:06:55Z

Walking?!? Congrats and... "Welcome to the 'Suck' ". It's a military phrase that means it's something exceptionally hard, but you will, later, look back upon with fondness ;-) J started walking last week too, he is by far the fastest to do so. I think he will be the fastest in everything, as he has a brother and sister so close in age to model.

sachac

2017-07-30T03:44:46Z

Thanks! A- has so far been thoughtful enough to keep her progress very manageable, so in fact, I can currently look at this time with fondness. (And a little sleepiness, but mostly fondness.) Hope you're enjoying your new adventure too!