…but today in my crossword puzzle, I needed to know the Hawley-Smoot tariff. Next, maybe I’ll find some use for random facts from the Ken Burns Civil War documentary.
Me: Morgan, why is your blankie in the bathroom?
Morgan: Because I put it in the bathroom.
Today’s Final Jeopardy question:
US College Towns
This 2-word city is named for the founders’ wives (they had the same name) and the natural groves found there.
From Reena’s blog:
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You Should Visit Peru |
 Peru is ideal for your “off the beaten path” traveling style. Head out to an ancient Incan city, visit a volcano, and don’t forget to pet a llama. |
Sounds good to me!
Diana answered these for me, so I guess I’ll post it on my blog. Feel free to play if you’d like.
Leave your name and:
1. I’ll respond with something random about you
2. I’ll challenge you to try something
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
Morgan is learning her numbers. She can already count up to five by herself. For some reason, however, she doesn’t like to say the number one. Instead, she tends to start off by naming whatever it is that she is counting. For example, she says things like, “Doll, two, three.” Today, I found out what she does when she has more than five things. She was eating meat sticks that had been cut into small pieces, and she picked them up one-by-one and dumped them in her applesauce (yuck.) As she did this, she said, “Meat, two, three, four, five, meat, meat.” It was very cute. Dan thinks maybe she doesn’t count past five yet because she can’t really say the letter S yet. That makes six and seven pretty hard to say.
Sorry for never blogging anymore. Whenever I have something interesting (to me at least) to say I’m nowhere near my computer, and by the time I am near it, I’ve forgotten what it was.
So, I was watching Jeopardy today (like every day), and there was this category called “Rhyme Time”. One of the questions was something like, “This Dr. Seuss book was named after the illustration seen here.” and then they showed the picture from the cover of Hop on Pop. Since that’s one of Morgan’s favorite books, I pointed it out to her and said, “Morgan, what’s that?” and she said, “Hop on Pop!” Now when she goes on Jeopardy some day she’ll be able to tell the story about how she answered her first Jeopardy question when she was only 19 months old. Admittedly, she did not phrase her response in the form of a question, but they are always lenient with little kids.
You scored as Lara Croft. A thrill-seeking, slightly unscrupulous, tough-as-nails archaeologist, Lara Croft travels the world in search of ancient relics perhaps better left hidden. She packs two Colt .45s and has no fear of jumping off buildings, exploring creepy tombs, or taking on evil meglomaniacs bent on world domination.
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Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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So, Morgan has been saying words for a long time now. There were only a few, however, that she really used with any frequency or in any useful context. (Hi, good, cat, num-num.) For the last week or so she’s been really talkative, repeating words that I said to her and things like that. Then, this evening, she picked up her empty glass and said, “No wa-wa.” We were very impressed. Hopefully this is a sign that she’ll start really asking for things she wants instead of just pointing and saying, “dadada,” which makes it really hard to tell what she actually wants. She gets frustrated (and so do we) when she’s trying to tell us something but we have no idea what she’s saying. Who knows, maybe one day she’ll even start calling it a “ball” instead of a “dall”.