September 15th, 2008 | By Kyoko
Immi fell a sleep in the car on the way back from the shopping mall (her dad was getting a hair cut and we tagged along for fun), and slept through getting out of the seat, walking upstairs and all that. This is the first nap in a couple of days — I was starting to think that she quit napping! Mr. Seagal is napping too.

I discovered yesterday that Immi knows colors. It’s not easy to find out exactly what Immi knows because she won’t do anything if she thinks that she is being tested. I happen to ask her if she wanted me to put the green hair clip in her hair (because it would have matched her outfit) and she pretended to put the green hair clip (there were about 10 other colors and about 25 clips, mostly black) before handing it to me. And then today, I asked her to get her box, she didn’t seem to know which of the many boxes in the room — until I said “the sparkly pink box” . The sparkly pink box is a new item in the room, and I hadn’t ever referred to it as that until this point.
Speaking of colors, I have been getting the impression that Immi color coordinates her accessories (hats and jewelry and such) but I figured that I must be imagining it. Well, now I’m quite sure she picks them quite consciously. She usually puts on pink-ish necklaces when she puts on her pink hat, for an example. When we went shoe shopping the other day, she looked at every purse until she found one that matched her black/leopard print color scheme, and carried it around the rest of the time at the store.