{"id":5486,"date":"2014-10-16T22:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2014-10-16T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T21:01:10","slug":"ninety-six_months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/ninety-six_months\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninety-six months"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI don’t know where this month has gone. It’s all been so busy I feel like I’ve hardly had any time together with Ingrid.<\/p>\n

During weekends we’ve had birthday parties. The best thing and the worst thing about parties is waiting for them. Ingrid spends a lot of time looking forward to the next big thing.<\/p>\n

Another important part of birthday parties is getting presents. Here again anticipation is an important part of it, and the opening of presents. But the happiness about the actual things usually dissipates fast. It’s like when she buys toys for herself: she often has more fun choosing and buying a toy than actually playing with it.<\/p>\n

This year’s top present was a radio controlled car. She’s been asking for one for a long time and was really happy to get one. After previous presents, I don’t really have high expectations when it comes to actual usage.
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\nOne weekend she also had a scout hike – her first one with an overnight stay. She was very excited and just a teeny bit anxious, but in the end managed it without a hitch.<\/p>\n

Weekdays are full of school and after-school activities. Estonian lesson and scouts on Tuesdays; riding on Thursdays; fredagsmys<\/i> on Fridays. Of the remaining two afternoons\/evenings Ingrid usually spends one with a friend, either here or at the friend’s home.<\/p>\n

Friend E, whom Ingrid thinks of as her best friend, likes Ingrid well enough but not best, so they don’t play as often as Ingrid would like. Instead she’s reconnected with her friend M, also one of the “original four” whom Ingrid got to know at nursery. M spent two years abroad and came back this summer, kind of out of touch with the others. So now M and Ingrid found each other again. They are kind of similar in character: both a bit bossy, a bit tougher than the average girl. Both like reading and are good at English. They play with their stuffed animals and Littlest Pet Shop figures, and they’ve been swapping iPad app tips with each other.<\/p>\n

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Ingrid has several pet-raising games now: the kind where you buy pets, feed them, care for them, and breed them to get more pets. And the pets generate in-game money of some sort so you can buy more stuff and more pets. One thing this type of games have in common is waiting. It takes time to grow food, to breed the pets, etc., and in between there’s not much you can do. So Ingrid sometimes switches between several such games, feeding the pets in one while waiting for the others to become hungry, etc.<\/p>\n

She’s also discovered Minecraft. She uses Minecraft like she uses Lego: for building houses. The key features of a house are doors, windows, a bed – and bookcases.<\/p>\n

Today we had this term’s parent-teacher meeting for Ingrid. She is, not surprisingly, way ahead of the goals in maths, reading, writing and English.<\/p>\n

One evening when she was bored she started doubling numbers, in her head. Two, four, eight, … all the way to 8192. Then it got hard to keep the numbers in her head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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