Twenty-Five Months of Toddler Frances

Frances managed to accumulate four Advent Calenders this year, much to her joy.  The first actually tells the Christmas story.  She spent about three seconds on it per night and I didn't manage to capture her opening it on film.  The second Advent Calender was a New England coast scene.  She liked it well enough.

The third Advent Calender was a pop-up tree that Frances could hang ornaments on.  We love it.  In fact, we love it so much, we recycled it from last year.  (Thanks again, Beka. Your Jewishness knows no bounds.)

The fourth Advent Calender was on the computer and, I have to admit, it was Frances's favorite.  Lots of music and moving parts, some of Frances's favorite things.

Twenty-Five Months Fun Facts



• Language: Frances is still working on counting and reliably counts from six to ten.  Everything else is shaky.  Her adjective repertoire has expanded to include "cute," "big" and "fun."  She's working on colors, but she's mostly interested in car colors and there are some very odd car colors out there that make learning the basics difficult.  She uses "self" a lot, as in, "I'll do it myself."  "Bletch you" is Frances-talk for "bless you."  She also repeats the last few words said by others around her.  So when Mimi looks at our neighborhood and says "This neighborhood has a lot of po' folk," Frances, dear, chimes in with, "Po' folk." Thank you, Mimi.
• Locomotion: Running and running and running.  I saw a shirt the other day that said "Free-Range Kid."  I was tempted to buy it for Frances.
• Favorite song: Old MacDonald has had its day!  She has moved on to the theme song from the Toy Story movies, "You've Got a Friend in Me."  I'm not proud that my daughter's favorite song comes from a movie, but I'm so relieved not to be singing Old MacDonald several times a day that it doesn't matter.
• Frequent conversations:  We no longer talk about getting wet in the bath or shower.  I don't know what happened, but one day that was just no longer interesting to Frances.  And "Daddy choo-choo" is coming up less often.  She does mention "chine round and round" regularly.  That would be the Zamboni machine she saw at the neighborhood skating rink that goes around and around.  And, really, who doesn't enjoy watching a good Zamboni?