I keep thinking one of these days we’ll actually catch up, but I guess we just take a lot of videos and keeping up with our two-month delay is all we can manage. These videos are from September 24 to October 1, 2012.
We’ll continue where we last left off: Vivienne rocks. Joseph can bang building blocks rhythmically and she’ll rock. Or he can play with them and she’ll join him.
The following videos are from our stay in Ticino, a long weekend in Vernate with Grossvater and Grossmutti. Vivienne decided she’d try climbing stairs on the steep flight of marble stairs leading to the first floor. Joseph spent a good amount of time counting with Grossvater, but refused to count without Grossvater. Here he is counting again. And again. But Joseph didn’t only count: he also used Grossmutti’s exercise mat for somersaults. And while Vivienne watched herself on the camera display – ok, bad example. The last three clips show Vivienne playing ball with Grossmutti and eating paper, and proving that she doesn’t eat paper the way Bill Clinton smoked marihuana.
Vivienne is good with the ball!
I stand by my statement that many of the Joseph videos have Vivienne fussing in the background, and many of the Vivienne videos have Joseph counting in the background.
We can’t complain that you’re behind with the videos when you keep up such a nice pace. 🙂
I’m glad he likes the book.
I’ve been meaning to ask…does your father speak Russian or does he just know his numbers? How many languages does he know? I think it is great that the kids can be exposed to so many different languages.
Sarah
He LOVES the Count to a Million book. It was a hit from the start and is still going strong. Stephan’s dad takes a Russian course, but claims to do it only for fun and that he can’t speak Russian. All he’s doing with Joseph so far is numbers. He does speak Italian, though, which for where we are might be more helpful, but he also likes to practice his English on Joseph. Surprisingly, Joseph is okay with it. Grossvater is the only one with the privilege of being able to switch languages without Joseph complaining!