The day’s adventures continue with Pomme’s notable moments.

She’s been keen on numbers for awhile now.  She loves to point out “fenen” when she sees one… that’s ’7′ for the toddlerese-challenged.  The fun thing she did today was out of nowhere, in the middle of a parking lot, she shouted out “Fee!  Too!  Won!”

Whoa… counting backwards.  Even Flipper didn’t do that until he was closer to three… but then he counted down from five and folding down his fingers one at a time to boot.  Still, sibling rivalries aside, it was cool to see.

Of course, this is a 27-month-old who still says “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 6, 7, 5, 7, 9″ sometimes.

She also loves drawing.  And what she loves drawing best, is anything at all on her brother’s dry-erase board, ostensibly part of his math curriculum.  It’s great, she can draw all she likes, erase it, and start over, and I don’t have to deal with mountains of scribbled paper.

Her drawings are starting to become representational… at least to her.  To us, it’s still circles, zigzags, lines and dots, but to her it’s boats, cats, letters, and (most frequently) whales.

Today I tried drawing a ‘track’ for her to trace.  Two wavy lines about an inch or so apart.  I held her hand to give her the idea to get started, showing that she should follow down the middle of the track.  She quickly understood and finished on her own.  We did a few more at other times during the day as well.  She wobbles off the track occasionally, but for the most part stays in the middle and is definitely following the general shape.

She’s also singing the alphabet now.  This is, of course, totally unrelated to literacy and understanding of letters and phonics, and we had not been teaching it to her.  But she heard it, and it stuck.  Most often, we hear “ay bee see dee eee HEF JAAAAYEEE”… or we hear “koo ar ess, tee yu vee, dubbayu ess, tee yu vee… ”

And we’re also getting frequent renditions of “tinkow tinkow itta taaa” which is just too adorable to be believed.

We were out shopping today and I thought I should get her some new pants.  Many of our favourite pants are now too short on her, and most of the next size up we have in hand-me-downs are still like, size 5.  She’s a little shopping DIVA already, I swear.  Everything she saw was like “Oh!  Cooooooooool!” and “pitty pitty shooooos!!” and trying on sunglasses.   Where’s the tomboy we ordered?

Once I’d found the perfect pants she saw something way up high.  “Beena!  Beena!”  That’s her attempt at “ballerina”.  This girl is a dancer, and we can’t wait until next fall when she can start dance classes.   Anyway, sure enough, there was a cute little t-shirt with a silhouette of a ballerina on it.  She doesn’t need more shirts, but it was very cute, and only $6.  There were a few different designs, and the one she ended up choosing is a lovely image of ballet shoes.  Her two favourite things… dancing, and shoes.

The pants are nifty chocolate brown cargo pants.  Very, very cute.  Of course, I’m going to have to take in the crotch by a good 2″.  Stupid pants manufacturers and their “diaper fit” for toddler clothes.  Did you know it’s next to impossible to find pants “cut for undies” in anything less than a size 4?  While I understand that clothing manufacturers aren’t really familiar with the diaper-free movement and don’t get many requests for cut-for-undies pants for 18-month-olds… or 6-month-olds…  there are still plenty of potty-trained 2-year-olds out there.  And the average age for potty-training is age 3.  So I would at least expect that size 3 would be easy to find.

Alas, it is not to be.  You’ve got to make them yourself, buy them from someone who makes them herself, or alter them yourself.

Finally, while driving around today for my many errands, I noticed that she was being very quiet in the back seat.  She had her toy monkey with her and seemed to be cradling him close, and I wondered if she was falling asleep.  When we arrived, and I was opening her door to let her out, she pulled the monkey away from herself and said “all done nurse!”

All together now:  awwwwwwwwwwwwww.

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