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Sunday, November 29, 2009
tales of a sunday
Today was a nice relaxed day. Lots of playing and sleeping. And more playing. We caught most of it on tape so can actually tell you the visual story of our go abouts. As you may guess, star is our little lady. Make yourself comfortable for the reading and viewing of ’Tales of a Sunday‘…
Mayra Dilan reached 10.5 months. She likes taking things OUT of something. Socks out the sock basket. Veggies out the box. Toys out the toy bag. Crackers out the tupperware (she is very skilled and with her little fingers chooses the one she wants to eat and takes it out!). Mayra also likes standing and walking. It’s incredible to see how fast she is developing these skills. Two weeks ago Mayra was able to pull herself up and take 1 or 2 wobbly steps holding onto the furniture. Now she’s going round the living room, transferring fairly smoothly between the sofa and the kotatsu and the jumperoo, bouncing her cute body when she hears music play. Very fun to watch. She’s also getting close to running when she walks holding our hands, leaning her weight forward to go faster. And, something that made me feel very proud when I saw her do this a week ago: Mayra is able to stand alone without support for about 2 seconds!
In the below movie it’s early Sunday morning and Mayra usually entertains herself for a bit in her play corner. She is just finishing up with taking papers and toys out of a box, moving swiftly onto the music toy, and some standing. She wants me to hold her hands so she can walk through the room. Mayra knows how to crawl but simply prefers walking. The problem is that she can’t do it by herself yet. This is a test for Mayra’s character (she knows very well what she wants and likes, or doesn’t want, and is very driven and passionate about it); she can get pretty frustrated and angry when we don’t make ourselves available to hold her hands and walk with her…
Then, after brunch it was time for another fun game. BebePod riding! As I was playing with Mayra it reminded me of de ’botsautootjes‘ I used to ride on the ’kermis‘ when I was a child (bumping carts at the carnaval?). Anyway, we have this BebePod low chair for babies. It wasn’t used a lot but we just found a new purpose for it. Watch and enjoy. The BebePod entertainment comes in two parts. After the riding Mayra went onto discovering for herself what to do with it. Excuse the messy apartment by the way, we were sorting out laundry and winter clothes, and still had other stuff to clean away as well. Heh…
Part two is when Mayra had a go at it herself. I think initially she was trying to figure out how to sit in it, before submitting it to her research. The movie is a bit lengthy but I just couldn’t get enough of observing her!
Later in the afternoon we went to the local park (Rinshi no Mori Koen) for some fresh air and a short walk. These days Mayra leads us to the front door herself when she wants to go out. She’s a very determined little lady. In the park she had a play with the leafs and dirt, and we did some more walking. The movie shows when the climax of this outing was reached: Mayra gets totally excited by the sight of animals, especially dogs are her favorite. Where that comes from we don’t know, we don’t have any pets… Anyhow, when she spotted a bunch of dogs at the park, she was on a mission! Hilarious to see her ‘lift off’ to her target. The dogs made her day. I love her laughs and giggles when her face gets sniffled and licked.
And that was all, folks! After this the day was over and we went for a bowl of udon. Mayra is enjoying noodles as well. No movie of it though.
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