weinraub’s words

I just noticed that the blog was set to block search engine spiders. No biggie, really. After all, weinraub.com is hardly a commercial enterprise. How much monetizable interest is there really in Becca’s hand drawings and Benjamin’s toilet training?

But I do confess to being a bit disappointed every time the WP admin Dashboard reports that a Google Blog search fails to show a single inbound link.

Maybe with indexing now enabled, at least someone out there will see my poor little blog and link back.

Here are two recent drawings from Becca. so proud of them I just wanted to share.

Not a bug

Apparently, torsos are optional.

Draw and name your family

The instructions for this school assignment were to draw pictures of your family and write their names underneath. Becca did all the mechanics herself, though I did suggest some positioning and I did have to verbalize some of the letters so she could write them.

Torsos seem to have made it into this creation.

I don’t know why I get glasses. I think she is playing with the technique of adding glasses to her characters. And couldn’t be more pleased that I seem to have a tail. A tail.

And Annie has turned into a blonde. Woo hoo!

Also notable is that she intentionally made angry eyebrows for Benjamin. They’ve been fighting a bit lately.

Way to go Becca!

I just finished assembling a mobile of the solar system and hanging it from the ceiling.

So, Becca comes out with the following: “Daddy, I’m so proud of you for making the mobile.”

Maybe she’ll drive me to school tomorrow, too.

We are in that toilet training phase with Benjamin and he’s doing great. He announces his intention (usually), goes into the bathroom (usually), and does his business. Of course, we have a little potty for him. His aim is horrendous, but slowly improving.

Lately, he has been opting for the full-size grown-up toilet. In general, I view this as positive; he has apparently figured out on his own that everybody else does their business in the big toilet, so he ought to do it there, too. Excellent.

However….

He’s not quite tall enough. So the poor kid’s little pee pee can’t get over the rim and point down into the bowl. Instead, we get a vertical spray that occasionally launches forward, but never even gets close to the bowl.

Ai yai yai…

Pot belly. Wrinkles. Neck waddles. Creaky knees.

Sigh…

Benjamin has now begun to use two expressions, one Thai and one English, to express that he wants to do something for himself.

In Thai, to “do it myself” is ทําตัวเอง (tam dtua eng). In keeping with the apprently-now-standard Weinraub early-development pattern of using only the last syllable of anything he wants to express, Benjamin pronounces this as eng. So, when he wants to to do something by himself, without assistance, he will bellow Eng! Eng!.

More recently, he has started using an English version. But instead of “Do it my self” or even the single syllable “It”, he comes out with “Do it! Do it!” as he grabs for the remote or the keys or the scissors or the flamethrower, etc. The pronunciation resembles a kind of run-together, single word, almost a “Doowit”.

Very cute!