"Morning Mommy!" She'll greet me each day, often long before I'm feeling so chipper.
"Mama, mama, light off! Mama, Dada's seeping (sleeping)! Nurse, mama."
Then, after nursing...
"Tess do you want to lay down and go to sleep?"
"No, I want to daw (draw)." (Or, I want to play doll shoes. I want to eat. I want to watch Shaun the Sheep. Etc. This week it's always been draw.)
Today when I took her to play with Ime and Sebastian, Tess approached Ime, put her arm around her back, and so want to converse with her. I could see from the concentration on her face that she was working so hard to come up with some words to share. Ime, who is a full year older, looked at Tess with uncertainty, wondering why she was standing so close. Finally, Tess found some words. She tried to tell Ime about one of the Shaun the Sheep episodes that scares her.
"Ime! Shaun, Shaun the Sheep. The bees! And Shaun and the bees. And scary!" She said this in a deeply serious voice, nodding her head for emphasis and waving her hand up and down, her face expectantly studying Ime, hoping Ime is impressed. But Ime couldn't make sense of it.
Tess is trying all the time to retell. We ask her "what happened?" all the time, and she replies, "happen this." or "happen Shaun clean up."
When she works out a full sentence for something that has happened, she will repeat it over and over again. "Pigs push Shaun," is a sentence she has worked out, and she tells us about that moment often.
Then yesterday Tess got too close to Ime when Ime was using a new toy and Ime was afraid Tess was going to take her toy, so she pushed her away and it knocked Tess to the ground. Tess sat there stunned as Sandra came over and reprimanded Ime. Ime apologized and then moved to protect her toy and Tess still hadn't said or done anything in all this time. Finally, she looks at me and says, "Mama! Ime push Tess. Ime push Tess." She wasn't upset, but seemed more astonished and kind of excited to have the words to be able to recount the whole thing to me.
1 comment:
That is an awesome picture of Tess.
I love this post. Your observations about Tess are so thoughtful and insightful. I love to hear your noticings about her.
I loved these lines:
* "I could see from the concentration on her face that she was working so hard to come up with some words"
* "Finally, Tess found some words"
* "She said this in a deeply serious voice, nodding her head for emphasis and waving her hand up and down, her face expectantly studying Ime, hoping Ime is impressed. But Ime couldn't make sense of it."
* "but seemed more astonished and kind of excited to have the words"
Thank you for writing all of this out.
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