Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
UCLA Baby Lab: Can Infants Learn Statistics?
This afternoon, Kira participated in another UCLA study:
"The rapidity with which infants come to understand language and events in their surroundings has prompted speculation concerning the learning mechanisms that guide language acquisition and object knowledge in infancy. Research has shown that by 8 months of age infants are able to pick out individual words from fluent speech based solely on the statistical relationships between neighboring speech sounds (Saffran et. al, 1996). At the UCLA Baby Lab we have shown that infants as young as 2 months of age are able to detect statistically predictable patterns in visual stimuli as well, such as in sequences of basic shapes (Kirkham, Slemmer & Johnson, 2002). These findings suggest that mechanisms designed to detect structure inherent in the environment may play a role in infants' cognitive development. We are currently conducting further research to investigate infants' ability to detect and learn from various types of statistical probabilities in their environment and how this ability may develop over time." -Lauren Krogh
Playdate with Charlotte at the Getty
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| Waiting for the tram... |
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Army Crawl
Kira started "army crawling" in gym class today! She's been rocking on all fours for about 10 days, sometimes rocking and then lunging forward toward whatever toy she wanted. Today, however, she started the full-on army-crawl! Charlotte's mom, Marianna, got very excited and encouraged Kira to crawl to her, and she did! I squealed with excitement and pride. Such a big day! (Charlotte started army-crawling in our last Outside the Box class, which was very exciting for all of us, but a little sad for Kira and me, as this meant Charlotte was "graduating" from our younger baby class to the older baby class. Now that Kira has started army-crawling, too, she has also graduated to the older baby class. Hooray!)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Doesn't Her Face Give Her Away?
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| Let's just say Daddy wasn't thrilled about the "accident" in the shower... |
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
"Water Safety"
Today, Kira started the "water safety" class at the YMCA in Santa Monica, which is supposed to be "an introduction to the water environment" that "educates parents on the importance of water safety by teaching children to float and other lifesaving techniques." With the younger babies, though, this class seems to be exactly the same as the swim part of Gym & Swim. Regardless, Kira was excited to get in the pool again and to make even more new friends.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Gym & Swim
Today, Kira started the Gym & Swim program at the YMCA in Santa Monica, which is a half-hour gym class followed by a half-hour swim class that "combines songs, movement, and water exploration to develop gross motor, cognitive, and social skills." Kira was very happy to have her friend Charlotte from Outside the Box in this class, and she was happy to make new friends as well. Kira just loves the water, so we stayed in the pool after class was over and hung out with Charlotte and Kira's new friend J.J.
It was a lot of work and we were both exhausted afterward, but it is SO worth it!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Prescott's First Father's Day
Today was a very special day, as we celebrated the incredible father that Prescott is. Of course, we wanted to do whatever Prescott wanted to do, so we hiked El Prieto with his dad and brother and all our dogs.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Welcome Carson Brown Lefebvre!
I am so pleased to announce that Hillary & Gabe Lefebvre were blessed with the birth of Carson Brown Lefebvre on June 6, 2011, at 10:58 a.m.. He weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 20 inches long.
Friday, June 10, 2011
I Can Sit Up!
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| I've been sitting up for a little longer than a week, but not long enough for Mommy to snap a pic! |
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
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