Saturday, April 4, 2009

Clap Clap


Ashley loves her orange and blue rocker chair. She does everything in that chair: she sleeps on the chair; relaxes on the chair; parties on that chair; eats on that chair; plays on that chair. The chair has a moving chicken on the side and a cat and a dog hanging on the hanging bar across the front. There is a red handle beneath the dog and if you pull it hard, it plays music.

After Ashley discovered that, she loves to pull the handle to play the music. Every time she pulls the handle, she would look for Mommy and Daddy waiting for some sort of reactions. So Mommy and Daddy would smile at Ashley and start cheering "YEEEAHHHH, you're SO smart, good job!" and start clapping as well. Daddy has nice big warm hands and of course when he claps, it's pretty loud. At the beginning, little Ashley didn't realize what clapping is and probably thought it's something bad, perhaps thought she's getting a spank, so she started pulling her chin and cheeks, and did a crying face. At this time, Mommy had to pick up Ashley, gave her some comfort and ensured her everything was OK. Since then, whenever this happens, Mommy has to tell Daddy to clap gently. Poor Daddy has to clap with his big hands in slow motion and barely touching each other, and hardly produces any sound. Ashley is then satisfied and returns with a huge smile. Now Ashley learned that clapping is a good thing and enjoys pulling the handle bar to play the music and always looks around for Mommy and Daddy and waits for her clap clap reward.

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