Suffering the indignity of being dressed as a rabbit and doing tummy time too?!
Registering his protest, Rishi learned to roll over in this photo session (and promptly rolled over).
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Soffrire il disonore di trovarsi vestito da coniglio, e dover pure stare a pancia in giu’?
Protestando, Rishi ha imparato a rotolarsi mentre facevamo queste foto (e ovviamente si e’ rotolato subito).
Daniele bought oranges after a long time today. Arya brought one to me and asked me to wash it.. I did think it was an unusual request but told her that these don’t need to be washed but washed it anyway since she asked me to.
I’m glad I did because we found that she had bitten into the orange and eaten it (rind and all) as if it were an apple! Here is a picture!
Only a little over a month late in our posting but…
Rishi joined us on 8/24 by c-section weighing 6lbs 6oz at 19 in!! He initially wasn’t gaining weight for the first 2 weeks but is now doing well and put on 1 lb in 1 week at the last visit! He’s a pretty calm baby – eats and sleeps mostly and loves having his butt washed in the sink.
Arya is a wonderful big sister! When he cries she rocks his car seat telling him “Shhhhhhhhhh”! And if she can’t do it herself because she’s elsewhere she gives us instructions on what he needs… To the point where when we put her to bed, we have to get Rishi to be very very quiet or we risk being told what to do (again)…
We were at Wrentham shopping and I was sitting on the bench outside a store with Arya. Just as she was getting up, Papa sat down on the bench. She then told Papa to move to the far end of the bench otherwise there was no space for her to sit. So he protested saying he also wanted to sit near Mummy and there was still place for Arya to sit next to her. But she clearly wasn’t satisfied and explained with her hands pointing to her behind saying “Look, I have a big butt so I need space to sit”.
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Eravamo a Wrentham ed ero seduta su una panchina con Arya. Quando papa’ si e’ seduto, Arya gli ha detto di spostarsi fino all’altro capo della panchina, altimenti non c’era spazio per lei. Papa’ ha fatto notare che anche lui voleva sedersi vicino a mamma e che c’era spazio anche per Arya. Chiaramente Arya non era soddisfatta e per chiarire la situazione indica il suo sedere e dice: “Guarda, ho un sedere grande, ho bisogno di spazio per sedermi!”
No eating from the knife, no swashing around water in the glass, no biting lower lip with upper teeth, no no no… So many lessons to teach, so little time… I think Papa might start rebelling soon…
The other day Arya didn’t approve of Papa’s half-hearted efforts at shaving. She felt Papa’s face & told him he was very “rubido, rubido” and had to be “liscio” (smooth) like Arya & Mummy…
Last night Arya was tearing up the petals of 2 pink flowers and putting them in a bowl of water and when we asked her why she explained that by putting them in water, they will become butterflies and fly away…
After we put Arya to bed, Daniele carefully put away any signs of the petals. In the morning when he asked her where the petals went, she excitedly exclaimed that they became butterflies and flew away!!
Arya was trying to stick a spoon into the slot between the fridge and the freezer when I asked her not to saying it would either spoil the spoon or the fridge… but she insisted that she was doing it “be carefully”.. Her next strategy was to say “Mummy, you hide”. Great, I thought! “So are you going to come find me?”. “No, but go hide”, and she showed me where to hide. After I obliged, she told me from the kitchen when it was OK to come out again. And I thought Daniele and I were the only ones capable of using distraction as a technique…
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Arya stava cercando di infilare un cucchiaio nella fessura tra il frigo e il freezer, quando le ho chiesto di non farlo perche’ avrebbe rovinato il frigo (o il cucchiaio). Insisteva che lo avrebbe fatto con molta attenzione.
Poi dopo un po’ ha cambiato strategia e mi ha detto di andarmi a nascondere. Ottimo, ho pensato.. “Poi mi vieni a cercare?” . “No, ma nasconditi”. Dopo che mi sono nascosta mi ha detto dalla cucina che potevo tornare. Pensavo che Daniele ed io eravamo gli unici capaci di usare la tecnica della distrazione !
Today was a rainy day but I decided to go out for a short walk anyway with a bobbing orange mushroom.. Arya had her orange jacket on with her orange umbrella that she holds close to her head so that all you see is an orange mushroom walking.. At what age do puddles stop being fun?
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Oggi pioveva e siamo andati a farci una passeggiata comunque con un fungo arancione che mi saltellava a fianco. Arya aveva la sua giacca arancione addosso e il suo ombrello arancione aperto sopra: si vedeva solu un fungo arancione che camminava…
A che eta’ smettono di divertirsi con le pozzanghere?