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An Outing to the Topiary Garden
An outing to The Topiary Garden is a unique experience filled with many opportunities to enrich and expand your child’s language abilities. A topiary garden is a garden in which the shrubs and trees are trimmed into ornamental or life-like shapes. The Columbus Topiary Garden can be found in The Old Deaf School Park, which is tucked behind the Main Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library in downtown Columbus. It features a one-of-a-kind artistic recreation of a world-renowned painting. As you head in to the park, you’ll find the topiary garden in it’s center. The garden was designed in 1989 by Columbus artist James T. Mason to recreate George Seurat’s 1886…
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What Can Baby Smell?
Recently, I was thinking about my baby’s sense of smell. I was wondering: How developed is her sense of smell? What can she smell? Does she have any scent preferences at such an early age? Of course, I took to the Internet to do research during one of our late night nursing sessions. With the help of everyone’s good friend Google, I found an informative website that provided insight on a Newborn Sense of Taste and Smell From this website, I learned that newborns initially learn the most about their environment through taste and smell, not through vision and hearing. Newborns can even recognize the smell of their own amniotic…
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What Are You Reading Today?
With the newest addition to our family, I have been thinking a lot about the best types of books to read to babies and young children. Reading aloud to babies and young children well before they are of speaking age is an important bonding experience because it encourages vocabulary development and improves communication skills. If you head to your local bookstore, you’ll find entire sections devoted to children’s literacy and language development. To help you save time sifting through the shelves, I’ve made a list of my four favorite (and effective) types of language development books for children. High Contrast Books High contrast books are great way to introduce infants…
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My inspiration has arrived!
My inspiration for this blog has arrived! I have been a mother now for nine whole days. Miss Ingrid Rose made her grand appearance on July 27, 2015, at 6:49 p.m. She was a perfect 7 lbs., 5 oz. and 19.5 inches long. My husband and I have spent the last nine days cat-napping (barely), eating (sometimes), staring at our little lady (always), taking hundreds of pictures (in between phone charges), and trying to figure out this parenting business (work in progress). Through her cries, Miss Ingrid came into this world ready to communicate with us. She does a great job letting us know when something is wrong. We just…
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My First Post: A long time in the making!
I have been thinking and thinking about starting a blog, and now I am finally pulling the trigger and doing it! My name is Signe (Sig-Knee!). I was born and raised in German Village in Columbus, Ohio. Undergrad took me to Ohio University in Athens for awhile (another one of my favorite places!), but graduate school at OSU brought me back to Columbus where I earned a Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology. I am now a pediatric Speech Language Pathologist working primarily in the early intervention setting (little kiddos). I am currently living in Columbus, Ohio, with my husband, Drew, and our cat, Olive. I am somewhat obsessed with…