Personal History | Katja Patersonová

My kids and I love the snow

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:36:00 +0000

We love the snow!

They learn fast

Wed, 10 May 2017 02:45:59 +0000

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I might take up a career as a bishop

Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:00:24 +0000

Mapping Katja’s mental concepts

Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:01:52 +0000

I know I won’t touch all the mental concepts that Katja has right now. But here are some (more noun like concepts) that I can easily remember:

Beard
Bird
Bath
Blueberry
Ball
Bottle
Bye(-bye)
Dad
Mom
Water
<æ> for Andrew

She has some verb like categories or actions that I think are salient as well. Some of these things are tactile motor movement skills which require some sort of mental conceptualization, while others are directional in nature:

up (which is not just vertical, but might include “hold me”, or switch people holding me)
down
open (pull)
closed (push)
More (food)
Turn around to get off the couch or go down a step
Point
Wave bye-bye
Soft hands (as in gentle hands — when she is pulling my beard)
Dance
She also crawls and assisted walks
Feeds herself (we can assume that she can feel hunger)
Takes things off: She doesn’t like anything on her head, can take her pants off
She likes to reach out with her index finger and thumb and experience the feeling of hair
Reads a book while cooing to herself
Plays the drums
She is music aware
She is speech sound aware (she knows she hears a sound she is not making and that it is different than what she is making) for instance the difference between and but can not yet pronounce .

She has a sense of emotion that clearly includes:

Happy laughter
Empathy when others are crying

7 pounds to 7 kilos in 7 months

Wed, 11 May 2016 17:05:45 +0000

Little feet big toes

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:39:29 +0000

Funny that. Her feet are almost as big as my big toe.

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First time with a spoon

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:23:38 +0000

Well, we have been tasting solid foods for about two weeks. There was apricot jam, toast, apple juice, carrots, apple, Moriah’s halla bread. So tonight we start with cucumber and avacado. She is well coordinated in getting the spoon into her mouth on her own though it seems that she is more interested in chewing on the spoon as teething relief than for its food content.