Eva is walking around the house all the time now. Sure she walks a little like the mummy but she is walking. I call her Godzilla because instead of walking around things she just blasts through them. Toys, shoes, you name it, she walks along leaving a wake of childlike destruction behind her.
Today we started getting a home delivery of milk from Munroe Dairy. This is a local dairy just over the border in Rhode Island. They deliver anything from milk to pizza ingredients. Eva is a milk drinking fiend and having a steady supply on hand is crucial so we are glad to have this service now. We are also very grateful for it and for the help making it a reality. I’ll have to get a shot of the Milk Box. It was very cool this morning going down to find our new milk box and inside a crate with 4 bottles and some yobaby yogurt form another local farm, Stonyfield. Stonyfield farms used to supply the frozen ice cream at Saint Anselm College. It was such a treat being able to go and get ice cream at the dining hall whenever you wanted some.
If you were wondering if we actually got the photos on the wall, we did and they look really nice.
Last week Allison and I picked up a set of TaDoodles for Eva. It was a set of three crayon type ones that came with Red, Blue and Green. TaDoodles are shaped for the grasp of a toddler. They are chunky and look like weeble woobles with a crayon on their heads. There are silly faces, animals and many other choices. Some TaDoodles are markers, some paints, some stamps and some are even bathtub crayons and markers.
While Eva is not quite ready to use these she is fascinated by the color being marked on the paper. Allison was smart and kept rolls of fax paper when her old office switched to a printer type fax. Now we have a huge supply of paper that Eva can use to make her mark. It is great fun and the scribbling is important so Eva can express herself. You might not think that scribbles are important but I was reading about a book from a couple of child development doctors called Celebrate the Scribble. Here is a description of that book.
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, renowned authors and child development experts, offer a peek inside early childhood through the marvelous marks made by young children. There’s much to see and celebrate in children’s scribbles much more than meets the eye. What appear to be random, accidental marks are rich in meaning, both for the children creating them, and for the adults who proudly display their colorful scribbles on office walls and refrigerator doors. Created by toddlers from across the U.S. and Canada, including a few celebrity children, the drawings and paintings displayed in this book elevate scribbling to the magnificent and important form of art it truly is.
Tonight when I came home there was a piece of artwork waiting for me. Eva and I then sat down and played with the TaDoodles together. She is looking like a lefty. We shall see. Oh and here is Eva’s first piece of Art.
