{"id":367,"date":"2006-05-25T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=367"},"modified":"2006-05-25T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T15:25:51","slug":"readin-n-rithmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/05\/25\/readin-n-rithmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Readin’ n’ ‘rithmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m figuring out (over and over) that parenting can probably best be defined as a state of perpetual inadequacy punctuated by brief episodes of competence.\u00c2\u00a0 Some people<\/a> are more inadequate than others, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, despite all my shortcomings, Ava appears to be growing up to be pretty bright.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s certainly vivacious, and she knows how to work a crowd.<\/p>\n

For the past couple weeks she’s been into singing her ABCs and counting from 1 to as high as 14.\u00c2\u00a0 In each case, there are some missed or mangled letters or numbers (she always skips 8, for some reason, and “l m n o p” is a tricky patch of the alphabet for her tiny tongue and lips), but she definitely gets the gist.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a ball to watch how she learns.\u00c2\u00a0 The ABCs are little more than a song to her at this point.\u00c2\u00a0 When we pull out a letter A or B or C and show it to her, she can only guess at what we’re holding.\u00c2\u00a0 And when I hold up three fingers and ask her how many that is, she’ll as likely say, “one!” as the correct answer.\u00c2\u00a0 But you can see her little mind working away, and it’s beautiful.<\/p>\n

I was giving Ava a bath the other night, and we were looking at her floatie letters to try to guess which colors they were.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d reach into the wicker basket next to the tub, pull out a letter, then put it on the side of the tub and ask Ava what color it was.\u00c2\u00a0 She has this hilarious process she goes through now where she’ll guess a color, like red, and then when I say, “nooo,” she says, “No.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmmm.” then she purses her lips and makes a little sucking noise like she’s really going for the right answer before she guesses again.\u00c2\u00a0 “Blue!”\u00c2\u00a0 “Noooo,” I say.\u00c2\u00a0 “No.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00c2\u00a0 Red!”\u00c2\u00a0 “Nooo.”\u00c2\u00a0 And on and on until she guesses right.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the one color she seems to be able to nail every time is pink.\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m figuring out (over and over) that parenting can probably best be defined as a state of perpetual inadequacy punctuated by brief episodes of competence.\u00c2\u00a0 Some people are more inadequate than others, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, despite all my shortcomings, Ava appears to be growing up to be pretty bright.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s certainly vivacious, and she knows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-5V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}