Luckily, the streaking phase is somewhat lessening. There are some tendencies she has that worry us, like focusing on how old everyone is. It's almost to the point of obsession. She asks it about animals, characters in books, every person we meet (ladies love this, I'm sure), and will sometimes ask it at times I think to ignore me. Like I will ask, what did you do in P.E. today?" and she will ask "How old is Mrs. [pe teacher's name]?" We can't help but worry that it is some sort of compulsive thing, but then again, maybe it's just that she has such a limited vocabulary and this was one of the first conversational things she learned and so it's something she just knows to do.
Luckily, she's going through other phases that we're more excited about. One that's pretty new is saying everything is Sophie. The frog in the book is named Sophie. The PotatoHead is Sophie. The toy baby is Sophie. Any picture of a little girl is Sophie, etc.
Also, she has a doll from Pottery Barn (the name of the doll actually is Sophie--how ironic--but I don't think she knows that) that she calls Sophie or baby Sophie. So we call the doll Little Sophie now and our Sophie is big Sophie. She carries Little Sophie around the house, has been taking her to bed with her, sitting her at the kitchen table with us. Today, she went to the library with us.
Another one is "Oops!" We just got her saying it this week, and now she's actually using it in appropriate places and thinking it's funny. She also likes to say "No way!" and joke about something so she can use it. Like, how old is somebody? If she knows that person is 12, she might say "One," and hold up one finger, then say, "No way!"
Something else is an interest in musical instruments. There's an ipad app we have that shows lots of pictures of things and sounds they make. One section is about musical instruments and she does that part a lot and listens to all the songs. She says which ones she likes (saxophone, accordion, harmonica) and wants to know which we like. Last week I bought her a set of toy instruments with a drum, tamborine, maracas, flute, whistle, and bells in it. She's been marching around with the drum and setting up all her toy animals with different pieces to play.
Then, today at the library, she was looking at dvd's and I found one that was geared for 6mos-3years about musical instruments. I said, "Sophie, do you want to get this one about music--" "YES!" She hadn't even seen it, so I showed her and said, "It has music instruments". She reiterated, "Yes!" When we got home, that was the one she wanted to watch. Halfway through, she went running out and grabbed the toy flute and took it back to watch the show with and was playing it some.
This is definitely something she got from her mommy. (Stephanie learned piano and also played flute in HS and the orchestra at Trinity) We'll see how far it goes.
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