It’s way too early for complete color mastery, but Felicia is progressing through color sorting and basic color detection. She’s pretty-much mastered “orange,” but other colors still elude her. It’s so fun to watch her learn.

Her first foray into colors came with the classic Eric Carle book Brown Bear, Brown Bear. After a few hundred readings, she is able to correctly identify each animal, including the goldfish, black sheep, purple cat, and the brown bear. But, show her a purple marker, and she’ll tell you it’s “blue” … show her a brown marker, and she’ll insist that the color is “bear” .

Using the magic of yet another WordPress plug-in, you can now manipulate our weblog database, and surf endlessly through lists of posts that might — or might not — be related to each other.

Click on any post’s title to view the entire post and several choices of related posts. Or you can choose the “Show Related Posts” option below any post on the Home Page. The computer is really just matching words in previous posts that might indicate the posts are related to the current one … presented for your amazement and possibly your amusement.

OK, actually she said something more like “roaddy� but it still counts! Read more on RotaryDad.

This weekend, Felicia attended “church” at Sierra-at-Tahoe, and the snowboarding gods answered our prayers.

All week, Jocelyn has been planning to take a ski lesson on this weekend’s family snow trip. Yes … skiing. Bouyed by the recent successes of several friends riding on two-planks, Jocelyn has been eager to try skiiing. Since we can’t offer her any instruction or much direct support, Mommy and Daddy weren’t too excited about that.

But … moments before committing to an all-day ski lesson, Jocelyn changed her mind! We were quietly delighted, of course! She chose to snowboard, and elevated her riding to another level with lots of toe-side practice. We picked her up for lunch, and had a nice ride through Sierra-at-Tahoe before getting Felicia.

This trip also marked Felicia’s first trip to a mountain childcare center for the day, since Grandee & Grandpa were otherwise indisposed. Felicia had a great time at “church” … her word for a place with toys and other kids to play with (just like our church’s nursery and Sunday school rooms).

Felicia is counting! Sort of.

She has recognized that there can be more than one of some things and she can be coaxed into counting them, if you ask nicely. Unfortunately, no matter how many you actually have, you can only have two or four. It’s quite cute the way she counts each item in a set. We’ll let you know when three and five enter the picture.

As far as “one” goes, it’s not so much a number as it is a request or command. When Felicia says “one,” she is probably asking you to do something again or give her something. Some possibilities:

Give me that one.
I want another one.
Do that one again.
Go back to that one.
Take that one with you.

OK, I broke my website.

Actually, the website isn’t broken, but the RSS Feed has changed. If you enjoy reading the exploits of the Martin-Keller Family from the comfort of your own feed aggregator (like Yahoo! or MSN or whatever), the address for our feed has changed, and you probably haven’t been getting updates since the “Healthy Toddler” post.

Please update your feed by choosing the appropriate button from the “Syndicate” header in the right-hand menu (you may need to scroll down …). If you don’t know what to do exactly, let me know, and I’ll be happy to walk you through it.

Of course, if you are reading this post from your Feed Reader, then you are good to go. Nevermind.