Thursday Activities

We finally made it back to the Thursday church group after months.  Battleing with colds, travel and other things made it difficult to go.  Bubita had absolutely no problem staying at the nursery.  Bubeaner whined and fussed a little despite being eager about going on the way there.  He did not cry for long.  Soon he was entertained playing with the trains, cars and horses.  Thankfully, neither kid was upset about leaving either.

They were treated to Chick-Fil-A for lunch.  It was a win-win situation.  Bubeaner got to play and wear himself out at the playground bound to take a long, long nap afterwards.  He loved it.  Bubeaner immediately made friends with a little boy bonding over naming the different kinds of cars in the drive-through line.  They were later joined by another little boy and a little girl.  Bubeaner is communicating so well these days.  Of course, he also wanted to share some of his favorite words with his new friends.  Imagine the shock of hearing Bubeaner's favorite hockey word (He heard it a lot at the last hockey game and t's NOT "puck") drifting down from the playground being repeated by all of the kids.  O! M! G!  Our kid is THAT kid!  It reiterated a couple of things: 1) Bubeaner is not going back to another hockey game for a while, and 2) it was time to leave.  Thankfully, non of the other mothers were in the play area.  Wonder who will get blamed for their kids' new vocabulary word.

Bubita also enjoyed the excursion.  She loved getting all the attention and cuddling from the nursery staff.  She was even pampered by the restaurant's staff.  And after nursing, she was eager to join the boys playing.  She was so eager to play she walked to the playarea holding on to only one hand!  She did great.  One mom suggested Bubita might only be a week or two from walking on her own.  And considering how fast she's been improving it might be possible.  She started the week walking holding on to both hands, moved on to standing using the hand-held walker but not being able to control it, to using the walker to speedwalk across the playroom to now walking holding only one hand... all in less than 4 days.

Of course, her temper tantrums have also "improved" with time.  The girl can scream!  It takes strong determination and will power to ignore them especially since they have become more frequent.  Bubita is determined to make her point be heard.  Thankfully, they usually don't last too long once she realizes no one is paying attention.  Then she just goes back to her sweet, easy going attitude.

We have been working on counting with both of them using flashcards along with "baby channel" programing and regular toys.  Bubita is mainly working on her animal names.  But Bubeaner is actually leaning to count.  He was doing a great job counting up to ten (that's how high the cards went).  We though he was rote counting, but he was also able to count when the cards were shuffled or when asked about a random number of items.  Bubeaner can count!  But only up to ten.  After that he just goes a little crazy with the order; he's pretty fond of the number 16.