{"id":2920,"date":"2008-10-27T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:50:00","slug":"more-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/10\/27\/more-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bean understands more every day and demonstrates it in many ways. Here are some examples.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The other day we were getting ready to leave, and I was searching for her sippy cup. As I looked around I said, &#8220;Where&#8217;s your cup? We need it to go bye-bye.&#8221; I continued to scan the living room muttering that I had just seen it somewhere. Then I turned around, and Bean was toddling back from the kitchen with the cup in her hands, and she walked over to the diaper bag and laid it on the top.<\/li>\n<li>When I ask her if she needs a dry or clean diaper, sometimes she nods yes. When I tell her we need to go change her diaper, she walks over to the stairs and waits for me to open the gate.<\/li>\n<li>Bean will stand at her bookcase and pull books off the shelves one after another as she searches for <em>the book<\/em> she wants read to her. Sometimes I&#8217;ve suggested a book (Let&#8217;s read Trucks!) and she finds a book about trucks and hands it to me.<\/li>\n<li>I started asking her to say &#8220;please&#8221; when she wants a book re-read to her. A couple of times she did say it, but then she decided to resist. She&#8217;ll shake her head, say &#8220;No,&#8221; and emphatically make the sign for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeprint.com\/asl101\/pages-signs\/m\/more.htm\">more<\/a>. If I persist in telling her to say please, she gets mad and upset. I&#8217;ve decided that when it comes to saying please, I&#8217;ll start with modeling the behavior for her. I also don&#8217;t want to get into a fight with her about saying please at this age, especially over reading books. And while I think she understands the concept of &#8220;no&#8221; to some degree, I also think she gets confused. There are times she says no when she clearly means yes.<\/li>\n<li>When she hears a plane (or helicopter), she declares <em>Pane! Pane!<\/em> When she hears the rumble of a loud truck engine, she says <em>Ca! Ca!<\/em> (her word for truck). Also, when she sees a plane in the sky, even when it&#8217;s very small because it&#8217;s far away, she becomes excited and shouts her word for it and babbles. Sometimes she mistakes a bird in flight for a plane as well, but she&#8217;s starting to make the distinction. The other day she pointed to a black bird and said <em>crow<\/em> (though the &#8220;r&#8221; sounds like &#8220;w&#8221; still).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She&#8217;s also added new words: bag, bear, bow-wow, bubbles, bus, crow, foot, neigh, ooo-ooo (monkey), pop, poop, quack, sneeze, tummy, tunnel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2975408157\/\" title=\"i want this one by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3172\/2975408157_82ae0a6179.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"i want this one\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>I want this one!<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bean understands more every day and demonstrates it in many ways. Here are some examples. The other day we were getting ready to leave, and I was searching for her sippy cup. As I looked around I said, &#8220;Where&#8217;s your cup? We need it to go bye-bye.&#8221; I continued to scan the living room muttering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13898,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/13898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}