Thirty-One Months

After a shaky, tantrum-infused start to her thirty-first month, we've had a really lovely past few weeks. Although she's not exactly the most obedient child in the world, she is surprisingly obliging when I ask her for kisses, and always stops what she's doing, comes over to me and plants a kiss on my mouth. I think there's an example of this at the end of the jigsaw video below. Plus, when I ask her who's the most beautiful, she says 'Daisy and Mummy' :).

The Christmas Mickey Mouse DVD that Nanna & Grandpa bought her has been a constant feature this month, to the extent that she can recite almost all of it by heart. There's one segment where Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse compete in an ice-skating competition, and she mimics all the moves, including skating round the room, hugging the mantelpiece when they hug, clasping her mouth shut when Daisy Duck does that to Donald and lying on the floor with her mouth open when the crocodiles do that. Oh yes, there are crocodiles ;). The funniest Christmas Mickey-themed phrase she's come out with this month was when we were getting in the car one day, and she looked at me and said, very sincerely, 'Mummy, what about the Christmas spirit?'

Daisy's also cemented her relationship with Timmy Time and has discovered the Shaun the Sheep DVD that Jen bought her for Christmas (for those who don't know, Shaun the Sheep is an Aardman creation who first appeared in 'A Close Shave' and now has his own TV series aimed a school-age children, and Timmy is Shaun's nephew who has his own spin-off series, aimed at pre-school children). Now she asks for 'Timmy Time' and 'Timmy the Shaun'. We went to a local National Trust farm last weekend to look at some of the newborn lambs, and when we asked her what a baby sheep was called, she said 'Timmy!'

On Thursday Daisy got home from nursery and sat on the mat while I took her boots off.  Her socks had bunched themselves up inside her boots and when she saw them she said 'Oooh, my sock is a bit difficult...'

The best way to illustrate Daisy's progress in speech and motor skills is to show you this video, which is a bit long but I still love it.  And watch out for the kisses at the end :).

And finally, here's an excerpt from the Little Mermaid: -

I hope the weather warms up a bit soon, so we can actually get out of the house a bit more and not have to rely on the TV for entertainment. Spring officially began a few days ago and there's been snow up and down the country this weekend...