Gandhi-Irwin Blog

Right now, she is replacing an "F" at the beginning of a word with a "P" so "Fixed it" becomes "Pixed it." She's gotten pretty good and putting duplo blocks together so we've been building towers that past week or so. Sometimes she doesn't get the piece on quite right, pushes too hard, and it comes crashing down, so I've started saying "Saha, fix it." So now she says "Pix it!" Here's a video we shot last week. We've got a smart cookie! I know I'm behind, I'll catch up, I promise, I've just got some stuff I have to get done for a deadline!

I'm really tired (I had to move my stuff from being on site back to the office today and man, boxes are heavy!) so I'm just going to do a quick update on Saha's progress. She only had one accident at school today, at that was at 8:30 in the morning! The rest of the day, she used the toilet, no problem! Hooray for Saha! Her teachers said that she didn't even ask for a treat each time either, so we may be weaning off the treats faster than we expected.

This weekend, we did the "3-day" potty training method with Saha. It started on Friday. We filled her with watered down grape juice all morning and she had around 5-6 accidents before lunch. It was a bit discouraging, but she woke up from her nap dry, so that made us feel much better. She had fewer accidents in the evening and she even went right before bed, so I put her in underwear, a plastic cover and PJs for the night. That didn't go so well. She had completely peed through by the morning, even though we checked her around 12:30 am and she was dry. Saturday she did much better. She used the potty in the living room for the first time that morning. She only had a couple of accidents. One of them was peeing in my shoes! Luckily they are washable, and Allen and I had a hard time not cracking up about that one. She didn't stay dry through her nap, but we were able to take her out to the park for about 45 minutes in the afternoon without incident. We had the first real...

Over Columbus Day weekend, we took a trip to West Virginia with a bunch of friends. We rented a great house in the mountains , spent a lot of time relaxing, walking/hiking and eating good food. Saha had her first real stomp in the leaves. The evening that we got there, Allen brushed the leaves into a big pile and then Saha proceeded to run through them. She would run through and then grab the broom and try to sweep them back together. This was quite amusing. Saha really liked this rocking chair and she figured out how to get in it all by herself pretty quickly. The first hike we did Saturday morning was down to this pretty waterfall in the nearby state park. It was boardwalk/stairs all the way down. Pretty nice and easy. Mary Helen and Margo with Tristan the dog. Gorgeous leaves! We came across this playground that was a bit strange. It had this merri-go-round thing that you swung from instead of sat on. Alisa and Alex swinging Saha really liked this...

Saha said her first three syllable word - BUMBLEBEE! It's a pretty awesome word and we love how she says it. She also now has her first official sentence. Last week, we put her to bed and Allen and I both say "Love You Saha," and she actually answered back "Love you mom." !!!!! I may be biased, but I think that's a sentence, it's got all the required parts, right? Tonight she actually said "love you mom" and "love you dad" when we put her to bed! So sweet!!!! Her current favorite song is " Peanut butter jelly time " only because we started singing it over the weekend at the corn maze. She still loves "Row Row Row your boat'" and Elmo's Ducks . I think that we've weaned her a bit off the Elmo obsession, though and now it's more of a treat, as it should be. She is one smart cookie and actually understand cause and effect. Today, we had tofu fajitas for dinner. I put the plate of the tofu in front ...

A couple weeks ago we took a long walk on a Sunday and found an awesome new park behind an elementary school over in Del Ray, the neighborhood on the other side of the metro tracks from us. Since this playground was for older kids, all the equipment was bigger, but that didn't deter Saha one bit. She figured out how to climb up the stairs, across the bridge and down the slide, and she did it multiple times in a row. We finally had to make her leave since it was getting to be her naptime and she was not happy with us at all! Here's one from walking home from school one day. The quality is not the best because it was taken with the front camera on my iPhone (Saha likes to see herself). And for this one, she may hate me she's older, but man, it's funny!

From time to time (although it's been every week recently) we are assigned "homework" by Saha's daycare teachers. So far, all but one has pretty much been something that Allen or I end up doing after Saha goes to bed. There was only one that really involved Saha. I thought that I'd post them here, as a record of what we've done. January 26, 2011 May 31, 2011 June 9, 2011 July 7, 2011 August 21, 2011 We have another one to do this week, so stay tuned!