pregnancy sure slows me down from adding to this, of course, just as olive is adding incredible phrases to the list-- for example, i love how she says skelekin (for skeleton). she also was out gardening in the yard with andy, and said, "if we dig down all the way to the earth, maybe we can see it spinning!" so true.
she started a dance (ballet) class at walltown children's theater that's really great. i think she'd like it even more if there weren't other kiddos there who were a little too young to be there (aka- not doing much but needing a lot of teacher attention), but she's certainly one of the kids that will drift off when the whole class is getting 'instruction'. she's funny how she'll go up to other girls and slowly get closer and closer, then feel their tutus, or touch their beads in their hair (often with the other girls giving her a 'what the hell are you doing touching my hair?' kind of look). she's fascinated by the other girls in class, it seems, and she's really REALLY into doing the moves at home. we pretty much exclusively play the nutcracker ballet music in the car, and recently, she didn't immediately ask that i change it to that when i found a classical station to have playing when she got in the car. it's amazing how our 3 year old has essentially gotten us interested in ballet and classical music with such vigor (andy and i can enjoy and even criticize different styles of ballet, thanks to olive's interest in and basically, obsession with, firebird, swan lake, nutcracker, copellia, sleeping beauty...and we read a LOT of ballet story books, too. we just ordered a bunch of stuff online that will serve as sporadic gifts for her as the baby gets closer to arriving (two months to go!) and then once he's here--
on the other hand, she's also totally hilariously into all things 'poop'. her favorite knock knock joke is 'knock knock' 'who's there?' 'poop' 'poop who?' 'ew! why'd you say poo-poo???'
she's definitely exploring the idea of being a baby already-- calling everything by their first syllable, like 'pizza' would be 'p! p!' so that's her way of acting like a baby. i remind her that babies can't have dessert, and have to go to sleep more, she's not as into being a baby then.
in terms of dance, she knows how to, and remembers and talks about dance moves all the time. she says 'arabesques' like: ar-a-bes-kez.
she is also starting to say 'like' in her sentences like a teenager, but then i realize she's totally, like, getting it from me. wild.
she laughs at every suggestion for a baby boy name, assuming that all of them are silly, and that we're joking. one of them has to be it, so she'll have to understand that we've got to call him something! we're just not sure ourselves, yet, so she just suggests funny stuff like 'poopie' (funny to her!)
she explains things to us and others often by shaking her head and holding her hands palm up on each side of her, saying things like "can you beLEIVE it????"
all her friends at school in her class are boys, and she knows all about the cars movie, though she's only seen it one full time. she's absolutely relating to the one girl car, which is interesting-- she got a blue car in a kid party gift bag recently, and it was like "of course! it's sally!" she really makes everything become families or engage in relationships, so even if she's playing with cars or trains, she's building a room for the trains to sleep in, or making a car and a pig toy talk to each other about what they want to eat. i read something recently about how this kind of imaginary play is so great for helping them try on personas, so in the future they can have a better sense of what takes lots of work to identify with, and what feels comfortable.
elizabeth also told me about how kids at this age (young, like 3) can really benefit from something like her one hour dance class- that kind of focus is so hard for kids, and keeping them (or at least trying to keep them) focused for that much time helps them to retain focus as they grow and try...
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