Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Quetzalli walks all over the place.


Quetzalli never stops to walk. She likes to walk all over the place. I placed some foam mats in order for her to have a soft spot where to fall, just in case. But she walks out of the foam mats, and goes to the kitchen, to the restroom, to the bedroom. We have to be behind her in order to see where she is going. I think Quetzalli loves to explore. She goes around the house looking for new stuff to grasp and see. Sometimes I would open the "secret room", where I keep all my tools, my bike, cameras, and other things I would never like to see Quetzalli grabbing. And Quetzalli will ran towards the room. I have to quickly get what I needed, and get out immediately. Sometimes Quetzalli is faster than me! And before I notice, she would be entering all excited into the secret room.
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I think she also has a fascination for the forbidden. Just as in the case of the secret room, where I keep the dangerous or fragile things. Quetzalli is attracted to things we don't let her have. And sometimes she cries, but other times she creates a better plan. So you never know with a playful toddler like Quetzalli.
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We are also starting to take Quetzalli to the park to walk on the grass. She likes it, as expected. But most of all, she likes to run towards other children's toys. Whenever Quetzalli sees a bouncing ball or a flashy toy, she runs towards it, demanding it. Mommy and me laugh about it, but I think that Quetzalli needs to understand that not all toys in the world are hers.
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The trycicle adventure
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One time we were at the park. We were the three of us walking in a comfortable afternoon of January. When all of the sudden Quetzalli runs towards a trycicle. The little girl was with her mom in the trycicle. So Quetzalli approached the little girls and started babbling to her. The girl just stepped out of the trycicle, and let menacing Quetzalli to touch the buttons it had. Quetzalli was playing like if the trycicle was hers. She did not attended to our calls, she was totally focused with the trycicle and the electronic buttons. The little girls looked everything for a foot away from Quetzalli. Both mothers began chatting, while I went away for a bit. Then the little girl wanted to show Quetzalli how a button would sound when pushed. The girl approached the trycicle, and pushed the button for Quetzalli to see. All of the sudden Quetzalli scolded her, yelling like a wounded goose. She makes that goose sound when she gets angry. The goose sound was so loud and surprising that the little girl jumped to her mother's arms crying in terror. Quetzalli was all angry protecting the trycicle. So mommy got angry with the action, and immediately took Quetzalli out of the scene. Quetzalli cried.
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Mommy and me were laughing because what would Quetzalli expected us to do? "Here Quetzalli, take this little girl's trycicle". Or should we say to the mother "Take your daughter away, my daughter is going to play with your daughter's toy". We were laughing, because this is so typical of Quetzalli.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Quetzalli discovers Astronomy!


My beautiful daughter, Quetzalli, began to discover Astronomy this last week. It all began with the total lunar eclipse last Thursday night, February 21, 2008. Mommy and me pointed Quetzalli where the Moon was. At first, she ignored the moon, as usual. Ever since she was born, she had been ignoring all things celestial. The moon, the clouds, the stars; they were of no importance to Quetzalli.

But we kept pointing towards the eclipsing Moon just outside of Long John Silver’s. After dinning, we went out to see how the lunar eclipse was going. And again, I pointed towards the Moon. She started to stare at it, and turned down to Earth. Quetzalli noticed we had our eyes fixated at the Moon, so she turned her little head up, and pointed the Moon.

Since that eclipse night, she’s been looking and pointing at the Moon. If we are at the car on the freeway, and the moon pops-up, she’ll start babbling all excited towards the Moon. Mommy explains to Quetzalli that it is the Moon. Quetzalli gets all hyper over the moon, and starts to force us to see the Moon as well.

Yesterday, the Moon was late to appear on the night sky. Quetzalli was looking for the Moon all over the sky. She asks us where the Moon is. She points as if the Moons will pop out of a cosmic hide-out. No Moon. So mommy offered Quetzalli a repertoire of small but never-failing stars. Quetzalli stared at Orion and neighboring constellations. For a moment she seemed to not be convinced. But she keeps looking at the stars, and finally she points them all excited.

Quetzalli has learned many new things about this world, or should I say, from out of this world. She not only discovered the Moon. But also, Quetzalli found that whenever there is no Moon, you will have stars to see.