Hmm, seems like Alex may have actually gone to sleep this time. Last night was a nightmare. Well, ok, it was like an unpleasant dream or maybe just a really lame one where mundane things are happening and you wonder why the heck you'd be dreaming about doing dishes, but you know. It was not fun staying up til the almost wee hours watching Spongebob with Alex, though we are great Spongebob fans and normally would encourage her love of our favorite yellow square. But she was just wired last night.
My only thought on why she was wired, besides the chocolate chip cookie sugar recirculating in her bloodstream for 8 hours.......would be that she has discovered that she can "read" books on her own and pretty much entertain herself while simultaneously practicing her words, letters and numbers. She's been real big on the whole learning thing lately, and by that I just mean that she's starving for learning new things, especially with the letters and numbers. I think she was just thinking about letters, numbers, animal noises, babies (she says baby now, but it sounds an awful lot like "beebee" and she always says it quietly) and all the other things she's learning about, like standing on one foot and pointing her toes. It's almost as exciting for us, but we don't stay up late thinking about toe-pointed like I bet she does. Anyway, I'm chalking last night up to "learning overstimulation".
I amused myself tonight by getting Alex to repeatedly say "gosh". It's fun not only because she says it so clearly, but because she says it loudly. Nothing is funnier than hearing her say gosh as loud as she can while she's running around the living room frantically looking for the next toy to play with or book to surf on/read.
Well, I've got to wrap this up and go upstairs to enjoy the silence.
Oh, and how the heck is overstimulating a word (according to this spellcheck) but overstimulation isn't? Seriously, does that make sense at all?
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