Experimenting with more structure to help with tracking progress over time.

• Gross motor
  • A- learned how to ride a scooter.
  • She had fun running around and around.
  • She walked most of the way to the library.
  • She walked all the way to the playground.
• Fine motor
  • We got a lot of entertainment value from a sheet of embossed number stickers and a few sheets of colored paper.
  • She was interested in 12-piece jigsaw puzzles and helped me fit the pieces together.
  • She can peel diecut foam stickers.
  • A- completed the shape sorter easily, naming shapes as she pushed them in.
  • A- was interested in using scissors to cut along lines.
• Sensory
  • I made some bath paint. A- likes using it to paint the bathtub wall and her body.
• Language
  • Asking herself questions: “How can I figure this out?”
  • Identity: She referred to herself by a nickname while drawing.
  • Anticipation: I asked, “Do you want to go to Mind Museum or somewhere different?” She said: “I want to go to Mind Museum. See big dinosaur. I need a wrist band. Mama need wrist band too.”
  • Asking questions: “Why Mama say excuse me?” “What's Mama doing?”
  • Asking for attention: “I want Nanay to focus on me. Put down phone.” (Or pen, if I'm writing.) “Look, Lola, I made it.” She also started learning how to gently touch someone's arm to get their attention.
  • Describing: She said “A-‘s home has Daddy in it.”
  • Talking about missing things: She asked for a marker by saying “Where's the red one goes in here?” and pointing.
  • Coining phrases: She wanted to specifically ask for a baguette, but didn't know the word for it, so she called it finger bread.
  • Rephrasing: When I was trying to get her to change “I want Nanay to carry you” to “I want Nanay to carry me,” she rephrased it as “I want to be carried by Nanay.”
  • We've been talking about babies, kids, big kids, and grown-ups. She said, “Mama is a grown up.” Then she said, “I am a growing up.”
  • She said, “I am two years old.” She repeated it a few times. She doesn't answer the question “How old are you?”, though.
  • She still mostly demands things (“I want a orange!”), but one time, she requested it: “Can I have an orange, Mommy?”
• Music
  • A- can fill in the name of an animal when singing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.”
  • W- came up with a new song: “Vegetables make the poo go down.”
  • So much singing! A- sings spontaneously and when prompted. She sings many nursery rhymes, and she also makes up her own.
• Art
  • A- drew lines up and down while naming them. She also drew wavy lines while saying “W.”
• Self-care
  • We got a helmet and pads for when A- rides her balance bike, and I got a new hat for myself.
  • We went to the ocularist to adjust A-‘s conformer. She liked the ball that she got from the treasure box.
  • A- has a dry cough.
• Household
  • She wanted to trim Leia's nails together, and insisted on holding the clipper with me.
  • She spread the bath mat out carefully while narrating what she was doing.
• Social
  • Photos: She crept under her high chair, smiled up, and repeated the process in order to get a good shot.
  • Cousins: She sat on G*'s lap and asked her to read Go Dog Go.
  • Playing games: She explicitly plays, invents, and modifies games. “I push mama. It's a game.” “I like to play balloon game with Lola.”
  • Modulation: I told A-, “Daddy's room is only for quiet people.” She calmed down and used her quiet voice.
  • Empathy: She gave me a hug and said sorry after I spilled my drink because of Luke.
  • She wanted to sit close to Lola, and she enjoyed reading and playing with Lola.
• Pretend
  • A- mimed releasing the coin lock for a pretend shopping cart.
  • A- had an extended pretend telephone conversation with her tower. Not just hello and goodbye, but quite a few other turns in between.
• Kaizen
  • We took some Duplo to the playground and had lots of fun.
  • I learned that I like honey water much more than an endless stream of cough lozenges.
• Us
  • We sorted out my dad's niche at Heritage Park.
  • We went to Mind Museum several times, usually with Diane's family.
  • I enjoyed getting together with my barkada. We ordered pizza. A- alternated between hanging out and going upstairs for quiet time, so I was in and out of conversations too.
  • We had a nice stay at Hotel Queen. We ate bibimbap at a nearby restaurant, and they gave us plenty of rice cakes.
  • We went to the EarlyON centre. A- had fun playing with stickers, puzzles, and the tunnel. I picked the facilitator's brain about ECE and childcare.
  • W- laid patio stones next to the raised bed.