Jorie talks some more

[mmcirvin]

Jorie uses a lot of two-word phrases these days--not just canned ones she repeated from us, but seemingly newly invented ones of the form "verb noun" and "modifier noun". "Hug [object]" gets used a lot, accompanied by the act.

They Might Be Giants' weird kids' song "Violin" (which I sing to her a lot, and can sort of play on the piano) is "hippo song" (there's a bit that is just "hippo, hippo, hippo" repeated several times).

She's starting on song lyrics, sometimes with surprising elaboration; the general pattern is two or three syllables from the beginning of a line, then a pause, then a very emphatic pronouncement of the last word. "Row row... boat". "Up a buh... high. Like a like a... sky."

She often counts to ten in idle moments, though she's decided that 7 and 8 can be safely omitted.

She's also gotten better at standing unsupported, and though she doesn't yet have the nerve to walk without holding onto something, she can manage with one hand.

Right now, she's at her very first swimming class with Sam! We'll see how it goes.

Comments

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

She's right about that, 7 and 8 are by far the least important digits. Even my mild synaesthesia can't really tell them apart. They're blue and some other kind of blue, who the hell can tell?

Makes it hard for me to memorize numbers that contain them.

contact a neuroscientist, we may be on to something

[cpr94.livejournal.com]

I've been scorched by Krusty before. I got a rapid heartbeat from his
Krusty brand vitamins, my Krusty Kalculator didn't have a seven or an
eight, and Krusty's autobiography was self-serving with many glaring
omissions. But this time, he's gone too far!
-- Bart, ``Kamp Krusty''

Re: contact a neuroscientist, we may be on to something

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It stands to reason. 9 has special salience from being the digit of highest value (in Jorie's case, she likes saying "nine TEN!!!"). Apart from that, larger digits will be perceived as being of less signficance both because they're further along the counting sequence (which is probably Jorie's reason), and because of Benford's Law (http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath302/kmath302.htm)--they're less likely to show up in the first and second digits of a number, in many contexts.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

My sister used to babysit a girl who, when she was slightly older than Jorie, would do the same thing with books that Jorie does with songs. She'd open the book, babble randomly while flipping the pages, and then close the book with a theatrical announcement of "Theeeeee ennnnnnnd!"

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Jorie often says "End!" when I'm done reading a book to her; I think I taught her that by saying "the end" on occasion.

[smashingstars.livejournal.com]

7 and 8 are totally useless. Interestingly, they were the multiplication tables that I just could not get a handle on, and to this day I have to concentrate to remember any multiplication that involves those two.

BTW, I just now saw Jorie's Halloween costume! Cute! I usually avoid anything that's under a cut and labelled "spider", which is why I didn't see it the first time.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

That might be a wise strategy, given that in the past I've done that and, in fact, had an enormous picture of an actual spider behind the cut. Maybe my lj-cut text should have been more explicit.

[stacebass.livejournal.com]

"Violin" is a great song! SPECK OF DUST DUST DUST

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I like the live version on "Almanac" where that bit reduces Linnell to incoherent grunting.