Amie has been having nightmares about a dinosaur coming into the bedroom at night. It has spurred us to investigate whether she understands the difference between what is real and what is not, or “fake”. It is a good idea – we agree with several child developmental specialists – to make sure she does understand. …
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Manush House finished, entirely (*) out of trash
In the meantime the Manush House is finished. I decided not to glue the bathroom/kitchen and the staircase onto a cardboard sheet. It would make it more difficult to move the doll house around and take it places (if ever Amie wants to do that). Here’s the whole house (so far), with some of the …
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Manush Bari finally finished (almost)
Some scissor work on the IKEA catalog and the Manush kitchen and bathroom are fully equipped and ready for their new occupants. But where are they? Oh, they’re at the zoo. Yes, there are even curtains! What remains is fixing the whole thing – kitchen/bath unit and staircase – together onto a large cardboard sheet …
Zoo-ing in the New Year
Happy New York*, Everyone! Amie went to bed a bit later after a sumptuous feast of Indian take-out. DH and I watched a crummy movie over a crummy internet connection – it felt like our old graduate student days! Only Amie woke up twice with nightmares. Today it is snowing again, of the kind in …
The holidays and progress on the Manush Bari
We’re not really into big festivities round here – it comes with being far away from family, and Amie isn’t into presents and all that (yet). We spent some lovely days with friends in NYC. They’re into big get-togethers with hour-long conversations, heaps of good food and frequent bursts of laughter any time. You find …
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Kapla Building Blocks
Ok, I think we finally found the ultimate building blocks! (Baba and Amie play with the Kapla blocks) Looking for a birthday present to give a thee-year-old, we stumbled upon these Kapla Blocks. My first reaction was: huh, so what? They are simply wooden blocks or rather miniature planks. But then you take them out …
The Terribly Cheeky Twos
“Amie, don’t throw those blocks.” “I’m not thro-o-owing, Mama. I’m practicing throwing.”
Puzzling Again!
Have you seen Amie puzzling (video to the right)? She was only 18 months old and really into it: fit-the-shape peg puzzles as well as jigsaw puzzles. After a while she lost interest and moved on. I wasn’t heart-broken, because I knew that by then she had memorized all the puzzles and wasn’t, therefore, really puzzling …
Doll House Construction Site
The day after Anja commented on the dollhouse in the background of a recent picture, Amie took a sudden interest in it. It had been sitting on that ottoman for months… The first thing she asked for was steps. The Manushes couldn’t get into the house! So I made steps, which the Manushes now use …
Crafting: Tearing and Gluing
(Concentration) Amie has taken a fancy to the glue. She has “glued” before: we put glue all over a sheet of paper and she stuck bits of paper and other things to it. But this time she wanted to glue. This meant first tearing up a page out of a magazine. We were both of us, I think, …