Happier news about Jorie
Aug. 17th, 2007 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinWe're feeling a little less frantic about the whole food/anemia thing. I think the key is going to be timing feedings so that we give her solids when she's actually hungry. It worked a little at dinner today. I'd thought we were coming along all right; it's just that the checkup gave extra urgency to the issue. (My mother-in-law wonders why they didn't do the blood count at 9 months, which is a good question.)
Anyway, while all this is going on, Jorie has been learning words at an astounding rate. She's started on colors (not surprising, I suppose, given that she has about half a dozen books on the subject) and can identify blue and yellow with fair correctness; she's got a couple more letters of the alphabet too. Today she became fond of the word "happy" (which I didn't even know she knew) and started exclaiming "Happy! Happy! Happy!" in idle moments. I tried teaching her "sad" by making sad faces but I think it brought the mood down a little.
She also made a few spontaneous attempts to let go of support and remain standing (sometimes in a half-squat), and remained balanced for three or four seconds at a time.
Anyway, while all this is going on, Jorie has been learning words at an astounding rate. She's started on colors (not surprising, I suppose, given that she has about half a dozen books on the subject) and can identify blue and yellow with fair correctness; she's got a couple more letters of the alphabet too. Today she became fond of the word "happy" (which I didn't even know she knew) and started exclaiming "Happy! Happy! Happy!" in idle moments. I tried teaching her "sad" by making sad faces but I think it brought the mood down a little.
She also made a few spontaneous attempts to let go of support and remain standing (sometimes in a half-squat), and remained balanced for three or four seconds at a time.
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Date: 2007-08-20 07:36 am (UTC)Also, this is the third time in about a year that Colin Stilton (played the US President) has appeared in a major BBC show or movie starring as the embodiment of the We-Answer-To-No-One America, though he only appears to work in British productions these days (as well as a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, probably straight-to-video as I've never heard of it, playing same). He's Canadian though he lived in America since he was 4. IMDB says "Now lives in London and Chicago."
America, of course, has Donald Sutherland to take these roles, but he, at least, isn't typecast. Still, when the conspiracy-theory movie "Baltic Storm" needed to point the finger at someone for the real-life sinking of the Baltic ferry "MS Estonia" in '94, who played the responsible American? The original Hawkeye Pierce, in a general's uniform.