Alexander and William proved that Bella is the most tolerant cat in the world:
The kids were nice enough to bring along one of their old booster chairs that their grandfather made for them so that Liza could use it for a few years. She's very excited to use her big girl chair, and hasn't once tried to slide out of it despite its current lack of waistbelt. She has, however, figured out how easily she can feed the cat chicken nuggets ... sigh.
Liza has also figured out that she can hold more than one thing in each hand, and she insists on demonstrating this at every opportunity. First it was her foam jigsaw animals - she spent a week carrying all four of them around the house, bundled up in her arms so that whenever she fell she'd lead with her head instead of her arms. Now it's markers and crayons - I've seen her carry five in one hand.
She has no idea what to do with them other than chew on them and/or carry them around all in one hand, but at least she isn't ignoring them anymore. I figure I'll send her to drawing boot camp with my mother when we go to the beach later this month. Now, if I could just find the motivation to go scrape the crayon marks off the tile floor from where she repeatedly dropped her handfuls, I'd be fine.
2 comments:
Wow! Liza's fine motor skills are really improving :)
Don't worry about coloring, that is a much later development skill. I've several kindergarten students in class who can't do it yet!
mimi
My 4-year-old daughter also enjoys carrying things around. She has a hideous pink purse that she keeps filled with ball bearings. She has between 1 & 2 pounds of ball bearings ("ball berries" as she calls them) and will carry them everywhere.
- MLF
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