I found a post-it note on my desk last week with several notes about posts I wanted to write-- and thankfully, I dated it. The date was May 23, 2012. There's a post from May 23 on the blog, where I hit the first few bullet points, but I never got around to the rest.
Even though they're a year old, I think they're still valuable memories, especially in light of the differences between then and now.
One day last year when I picked her up, she told me that she had gotten in trouble, and when I asked her why, she told me she had hit another little girl. This was the first time she self-reported bad behavior. I remember thinking how remarkable it was that with her limited vocabulary she was able to tell me what happened, and I thought it was a mark of our good relationship and developing moral system that she told me about it.
Also, around this time last year, she started talking about Grandma, Grandma and Grandpa, and Patty and JP. (I think she might have still been calling her Pat-Pat, which I was really hoping would stick, but alas, it's just "Aunt Patty" (and JP).) This was the point at which she understood that they had titles, were separate people, and that Grandma (Tom's mom) was separate from Grandma and Grandpa (my parents), and that Patty was associated with Grandma and Grandpa-- AND that JP was associated with Patty. Very complicated for a 2 and 1/2 year old.
She also had just learned what a siren was, and every vehicle that passed us with a siren blaring was automatically a "fire truck." (Still is.)
Lastly, about a year ago, she had just started playing with the ipad. She started with a simple coloring program that allowed her to swipe colors across the screen. Now, barely a year later, she is, I think it's safe to say, an advanced user.
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