The real reason for this post is that I took some pictures and videos of the afternoon. Nothing very exciting--we were just doing laundry afterall--but they give you an idea of what the munchkin is like these days.
Nicholas loves doing laundry, as I am sure you are all aware by now, and his favorite part is putting the quarters in the machines. In fact, today he got to put them in for one of our neighbors who was doing laundry at the same time, in addition to doing our machines. Lucky boy.
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| From 2011 March |
Joe and I are hoping to ditch coin-operated laundry when we move, but Nicholas would be crushed.
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| From 2011 March |
I figure that this is good work on fine motor skills, if nothing else. And he has gotten really good. When he first started I had to carefully put the quarter in his fingers exactly right and even then it would usually take a few tries as he fumbled awkwardly to get them lined up and in the slot. Now I set the stack of quarters next to him and he does it all.
Nicholas (and Elmo) then talked to Joe's parents on Skype. I was in and out during the conversation, but from what I caught he seemed to tell them all about the animals he saw yesterday at the zoo.
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| From 2011 March |
And then here are two videos:
This is Nicholas climbing up the stairs after doing laundry. He counts the stairs every time we climb them, but if you don't prompt him to count properly you get a lot of "six eighteen fourteen" or other such sequences. And so here is counting Nicholas style:
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| From 2011 March |
And this video really has no substance. I'm not even sure exactly what he was saying, and he was standing so close to me that the framing is horrible. But he is just so excited about doing laundry! And it is getting really hard to capture an authentic smile in still images anymore.
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| From 2011 March |
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