Comments on Living in the Moment: A Brown Cylinder

I'm an Early childhood educator and while its ...

2012-01-06T10:25:13.952-08:00

I'm an Early childhood educator and while its great that you are talking to her and using different words to help expand her vocabulary, however, it may be a little early for geometry! Lol! I would just show her how to build with the blocks. She should soon enjoy knocking them down after building them. See how many she can stack and count them. Working on colors is great too! Keep up the great work! I have a 7 week old and I can't wait to play with her like this!

I agree with Michelle. Seems to have that you have...

2012-01-06T01:18:13.111-08:00

I agree with Michelle. Seems to have that you have a lot of stuff from the "clothes" area. Keep up the good work.
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That is definitely a fun age and inside her clothe...

2012-01-05T22:07:10.826-08:00

That is definitely a fun age and inside her clothes is probably not the weirdest place you'll find a toy!

That story is too funny! We do a lot of blocks and...

2012-01-05T11:01:32.587-08:00

That story is too funny! We do a lot of blocks and color recognition things too.

We are working on a few things of sign language (more, milk, Mommy, etc) when we incorporate language.
Ethan got a wooden Noah's Ark for Christmas so we play with that a lot, making animal noises and telling him the story of Noah and the flood.
I also sit him in my lap and make faces at him and distinguish "Happy!" "Sad." "Excited!" He thinks that's pretty funny most of the time.
Another thing we play with a lot is a Fisher Price basketball goal for him to work on his fine motor skills as well as cause & effect. The goal cheers for him when he gets it in the right place, and that excites him a lot.
Books, books, books! Ethan loves to look at books, chew on the books, and have them read to him. I'm finding the board books are better right now because he's really into textures and those don't rip as easy. :)

I'm at a loss...and I have a specialization in...

2012-01-05T09:03:16.362-08:00

I'm at a loss...and I have a specialization in infant mental health - go figure right? We are starting baby signs, so that's fun! And really, anything that makes her laugh I feel like is a learning experience.

These kind of posts of yours are my favorite- it&#...

2012-01-05T07:16:59.802-08:00

These kind of posts of yours are my favorite- it's right up there with the splattered mommy brain :)

I read once that kids learn the most from toys that invoke imagination. Like blocks and Legos. More than toys that show you how to play with them (video games etc) so I've always been big on playing with Legos with my son and building physics defying wonders with him.

And you're right about the "we want to play with the toys too" comment! When Nathan gets any toy that has a ramp for cars I get all giddy because it's fun- woohoo ramps! And someone gave my 4 month old this little house that has all these different things you can do- shut and opener door and windows etc. And I ended up playing with it for awhile and never got around to even showing it to Luke yet :)

I think we're all just kids ourselves- with just a few more years under our belts.

LOL @ your brown cylinder searching! At 7 month...

2012-01-05T06:02:47.292-08:00

LOL @ your brown cylinder searching!

At 7 months old, we played a lot like you are playing with Ella. Colors, shapes, saying different words to broaden her vocabulary. Just mainly exposing her to many many different things.

My daughter is now almost 15 months old and play time is still much of the same however there is more interaction from her end. We've moved on to "what does the elephant say?" or "what does the dog say?", "where is your nose?", "where is mommy's nose?" etc.

What I've learned about parenting and play time is to just go with the flow. I assure you that someday, she'll know how to make a cube and be able to identify colors etc. Just ejoy the time you have spent playing with carpet lint!

~Laura