Near and Far

For some reason this little episode with Grover on Sesame Street has always stuck in my memory. I don't know when, where, or how I saw it, but I have always remembered it. As a result, Jadyn and I will play a little near and far game from time to time. It usually goes like this: Jadyn rides on my shoulders as I bounce backwards away from the mirror in my bedroom. "Far." I run to the mirror. "Near." Repeat. She laughs and laughs every time!

When we were playing our little game on Friday, I put her down and started running forward and backward with her in front of the mirror. "Near." "Far." She caught on pretty quick and before long, she was even saying "near." (Sorry for the video quality; I kept starting and stopping the camera to try to get the lighting right.)



In fact, her vocabulary has taken off the past week. She tries to repeat what I say quite often. It is so crazy to me how quickly a child can just all the sudden start talking so much. Just in the past week or two she has said: upside-down, gross, stinky, it's gone, done, it's cold, high, dark, bubble, glasses, cracker, bunny, water, broccoli, near, and asleep. Other words (that I can think of right now) she has been saying for awhile are grandpa (bapa), yah, eye, book, bird, ball, mommy, daddy, five, cheese, and it's hot (as well as the ones mentioned in a previous post). Obviously her version of the word is usually a bit different than ours (dropping the last consonant or replacing an F with a B, for example). She can also do a lot of her animal noises, with a few other sound affects: bear, bird, kitty, dog, sheep, fish, gorilla, elephant, snake, monkey, duck, cow, airplane, and train. One of these days, if I can get her to sit still long enough, I will get those on video too!