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jillt driving at 5am, pseudomonas, livredor and I went to the airport and swopped the two Tabs for my W, who had been detained in NYC by school commitments and who had bravely travelled from Riverdale to JFK during the transit strike (thanks to MJNH for good travel advice).
Big sis J later took us out to Emsworth, to visit Bro, Bro's Wife, and Smallest Niece (still officially the cutest child in the world). Much loveliness. Bedtime happened while we were there, and we all sat on Bro's bed and read lots and lots of story books. I'm boggled by the kid's ability to comprehend pictures - you can point to any picture of a bunny, and she'll identify it as a bunny - or a clock, or a flower, or the moon or a cloud* - even though pictures are presented in so many different ways, from photographs to relatively representational coloured drawings to line drawings to cartoons - all kids are like that, pretty much, but how do they know? I tend to think of pictorial representation as being rather an abstract concept, like numbers. I must be wrong. Anyway, this was so fascinating that we read four books instead of the usual one or two, and Smallest Niece peed on the bed. Should've put the nappy on before book time.
* She didn't get on so well with Psychology Today - it only has pictures of psychologists and that got old pretty fast.
jillt driving at 5am, pseudomonas, livredor and I went to the airport and swopped the two Tabs for my W, who had been detained in NYC by school commitments and who had bravely travelled from Riverdale to JFK during the transit strike (thanks to MJNH for good travel advice).Big sis J later took us out to Emsworth, to visit Bro, Bro's Wife, and Smallest Niece (still officially the cutest child in the world). Much loveliness. Bedtime happened while we were there, and we all sat on Bro's bed and read lots and lots of story books. I'm boggled by the kid's ability to comprehend pictures - you can point to any picture of a bunny, and she'll identify it as a bunny - or a clock, or a flower, or the moon or a cloud* - even though pictures are presented in so many different ways, from photographs to relatively representational coloured drawings to line drawings to cartoons - all kids are like that, pretty much, but how do they know? I tend to think of pictorial representation as being rather an abstract concept, like numbers. I must be wrong. Anyway, this was so fascinating that we read four books instead of the usual one or two, and Smallest Niece peed on the bed. Should've put the nappy on before book time.
* She didn't get on so well with Psychology Today - it only has pictures of psychologists and that got old pretty fast.
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