We still have no idea why, but he consistently refers to jumping as "Ga-bee". He'll say things like, "Mommy, ga-bee stars?" which of course means he wants me to jump to the stars (which I can do in his eyes). Or often it is, "More ga-bee, peeeease". This is most often heard in the context of the bedtime routine when he likes to tell us the order that things will happen. We'll say to him, "Okay buddy, time for bed" and he'll respond with "Rory ride horse, read book, then night-night" Its very funny. He sort of bargains now only he doesn't always get that some things are not an option. Sometimes its "Rory outside, then night-night".
But, back to his amazing Ga-bee tricks, and in the interest of showing off his coordination, I've thrown in a video of him jumping off 2 feet. He LOVES to jump.
He also LOVES to skip and he LOVES to walk in his "tippy-toes". His new favorite game is to run around his room naked after a bath on his tip-toes and says "tippy, tippy, tippy, tippy" then eventually falls on the ground and says "crash!". And lately he's been skipping every where he goes. He only skips with 1 foot forward instead of alternating, so the overall effect is a nearly perfect imitation of the knights in Monty Python's Holy Grail when they travel around "on horse" by skipping with 1 foot forward and clapping together coconut shells to create the clop sound. All he needs is a coconut and he'd be movie ready.
02 August 2011
The Cat in the Hat
Rory's new favorite book is the Cat in the Hat. He loves, loves, loves the part where everything crashes and the Cat makes a big mess. He gets excited for pages before it happens (see video).
Last night, we were reading the book and somewhere in the first few pages he started running his finger over the words and making sounds as if he were doing the reading (and clearly not paying any attention to my voice, who was actually doing the reading). Then he randomly stopped on a word and said "Cat" very emphatically. So, I thought, perhaps he is trying to figure out which word is "cat". I showed him "cat" and then I showed him "hat" on the page and we spelled out each word. Then I flipped the book to the front cover and showed him again with the big letters on the front. Then I continued reading along without thinking much more about it. Several pages and several minutes later, near the end of the book, he looked at the page we were on, looked over all the words (and there were a lot on this particular page) and he pointed right to "Cat" and said "Cat!". I was SO impressed as you might imagine, so I prompted him for more and said "Can you find 'hat'?" He did his typical thinking sound with his finger running over the page "Hmmmmmmmmm". Then, boy genius that he is, he pointed right to "Hat" in a whole different part of the page from the first "Cat in the Hat" that he had pointed out and said "Hat!". I was so excited that we high fived and then he said "Alright Rory!" because he loves to cheer for himself. Its very cute. So, although I won't be so bold as to call it reading just yet, our smart little guy is actually recognizing words and putting together the concept of letters having meaning beyond just a design on the paper. We couldn't be more proud. :) Of course, the crashing part of the book was still way more exciting to him than the finding "cat" and "hat" on the page...as it should be. Who doesn't love a big crash and a big mess when you're almost 2?!
Last night, we were reading the book and somewhere in the first few pages he started running his finger over the words and making sounds as if he were doing the reading (and clearly not paying any attention to my voice, who was actually doing the reading). Then he randomly stopped on a word and said "Cat" very emphatically. So, I thought, perhaps he is trying to figure out which word is "cat". I showed him "cat" and then I showed him "hat" on the page and we spelled out each word. Then I flipped the book to the front cover and showed him again with the big letters on the front. Then I continued reading along without thinking much more about it. Several pages and several minutes later, near the end of the book, he looked at the page we were on, looked over all the words (and there were a lot on this particular page) and he pointed right to "Cat" and said "Cat!". I was SO impressed as you might imagine, so I prompted him for more and said "Can you find 'hat'?" He did his typical thinking sound with his finger running over the page "Hmmmmmmmmm". Then, boy genius that he is, he pointed right to "Hat" in a whole different part of the page from the first "Cat in the Hat" that he had pointed out and said "Hat!". I was so excited that we high fived and then he said "Alright Rory!" because he loves to cheer for himself. Its very cute. So, although I won't be so bold as to call it reading just yet, our smart little guy is actually recognizing words and putting together the concept of letters having meaning beyond just a design on the paper. We couldn't be more proud. :) Of course, the crashing part of the book was still way more exciting to him than the finding "cat" and "hat" on the page...as it should be. Who doesn't love a big crash and a big mess when you're almost 2?!
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