I noticed the other day that Ellee has grown up a lot in the last few months. She is a wonderful big sister, but she has also matured in her developmental skills too.
Ellee received a set of pattern blocks for Christmas. The blocks come with 50 different patterns you can use. She has watched me play with them a few times but has never shown much interest. The other day she brought them out and asked me to help her. I showed her the different sizes, colors, diagonals and we did one to together. Then, she did one solo. The only help I gave was holding the ones she had placed in place so they didn’t slide around on her. She did everything else, looking at the pattern, picking the blocks, placing them…awesome.
I decided it was time for her to learn how to pour liquids. I gave her a large plastic pitcher and three different sizes of plastic cups. She has had a grand time learning to pour and she is pretty good at it. I also taught her she can see the water level line through the pitcher…I didn’t realize that needed to be pointed out!
Ellee has never been much of a colorer and I have tried hard, perhaps too hard to get her to like it. She would much rather draw but her drawings were always random lines and squiggles that didn’t make much sense to me. Then she brought home her first self portrait from preschool, complete with teeth and blue eyes!
Ellee loves building forts. Sometimes she calls them forts, sometimes tents, and sometimes nests. I think she is using all the words interchangeably but usually nests involve sitting in laundry baskets. Previously her forts involved hiding under a blanket in a random pile of pillows. But the other day I looked up and she had created something incredible. She used a sleeping bag base, used Katie’s kick toy as a stand, and piled the pillows and blankets around the support. Then she added her toys and ice cream. I thought it was amazing!
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