More Fun and Games
Today is Saturday March 21st… and spring begins from a chronological point of view, but we woke up to a light coat of snow over everything.
At the moment Ian is upstairs doing this kind of warbling mumble that he sometimes croons before taking a nap or going to bed. Seth is asleep on the recliner I didn’t buy for him, and Mommy’s napping on the couch, having woken up far too early this morning with a little early bird knocking on his door.
We’ve been practicing all kinds of stuff with Ian, so he’s had few more tries at the alphabet; mostly on par with the description I gave a few entries ago. If you’re interested in hearing it, here it is… twice. The second one is about what we usually hear these days. It was recorded on Monday, March 16th. (Aunt Annie’s B-day! Hope you had a happy one!)
Click here to hear Ian singing the alphabet, it is 1.37MB in length, so even the slowest connections shouldn’t have too much of a problem with it. I particularly love “elemenelloemennopeeee.”
Yesterday we let Ian play that WiiFit game again. You’ve got to understand that up until now, he has stood on a pressure sensitive board, and watched, while I put my hands down near his feet, and pushed around to make things happen. In other words, I’ve been playing the game for Ian. (For those that don’t know, changing your balance slightly on the board steers the object on the screen… difficult for many adults to master.) So yesterday I leaned his body around for him, with my hands on his shoulders or hips, and taught him how to really play. I figured he’d maybe understand a bit of what I was saying and we’d come back to it again later, but was floored when I saw him play a game where he had to drop a ball through a hole. It requires some subtle movements… he made the ball move over near the hole, but was shooting too far to the north of the hole. He carefully shifted his weight back on the board, steering the ball to the south, but as it had been moving, it was now too far to the west. He shifted his weight to the right, to counter this, and the ball plunked in the hole perfectly. I guess this is maybe too hard to explain in a way that highlights just how neat it was… suffice to say he learned before my eyes, he did so very quickly, and perfectly.
Grandma Sue will attest to the fact that I get this look on my face sometimes when the TV is on, as well. See this image larger.
Yes, I rolled up his pant-legs eventually. That’s quite a soccer team he has there… (you can customize some of the characters on this game system) — left to right that’s Mommy, Gma Barb, Csn Connor, Gpa Dave, Unc Chris, Unc Ben, Aunt Mel, Gma Marcia, and Phil Oosterhouse. (The game chooses at random or else I’d get a family shot going.) See this image larger.
A few entries ago I talked about hiding the bunnies in the house somewhere… here’s a quick shot of the kind of place they end up, although most are a lot more hidden than this. (They’ve ended up on top of the picture frame on the left, wedged in a door-frame where it almost meets the neighboring wall, in a plant, on the thermostat, behind some dinosaurs, in a couple toy trucks, toy farm, etc.) See this image larger.
