Twenty Months

In the last month, Daisy has learned to pronounce her own name properly (so no more calling her Deddiss) and she's started stringing short sentences together, rather than just saying a word or two. Most of her sentences include the word 'got', and she's learned to put adjectives (mainly colours) in front of nouns: Daisy got porridge, Daisy got pink trousers, Mummy got grapes etc. She's also learned to recognise the rest of the numbers from 1 to 10 (she knew 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 already), although I think she thinks a zero is '10'. For instance if she sees a number 60, she'll say 'number six, number ten'. She's developed a passion for flowers this month, which basically means that every time we go anywhere where there are flowers, she wants to pick them. We only pick dandelions and daisies - Daisy got fowers! - but even so, our compost bin is getting quite full :).

She's also developed a liking for the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and knows the names of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck and Goofy. She still loves DipDap, and Numtums, and she's rediscovered the Sing & Sign DVD that Jon bought her over a year ago. I think because we've been going to Sing & Sign classes for a year and she recognises the songs, she likes watching the DVD more. We decided not to go back to Sing & Sign this term because she's past the signing stage now, and doesn't stop talking. I really enjoyed it and am glad we went, but it didn't seem to benefit her as much as it might have if she hadn't been such an early talker. It did come in handy today, though - we were in the car on the way back from Daddy's and I heard her say what I thought was the word 'friends'. It isn't one we use all that often - I tend to use her friends' names when I talk about them to her, rather than saying 'Daisy's friends' - so I wasn't sure if I'd heard right. I turned round and she was signing as well as saying the word 'friends' so I knew she meant it.

She's got two or three books that we read every night before bed, and one of them, Doctor Daisy, is becoming so familiar that not only do I know it off by heart, but she's learned quite a lot of it too. Check out this video:

Her hair is getting crazy long, and I can't decide whether to cut in a fringe or leave it to grow. She wears a clip in the front to keep it out of her eyes, but I spend most of the day putting it back in once it's wriggled out of place. I can't imagine she'd take too kindly to someone coming at her with a pair of scissors, though, so maybe I'll just leave it as it is for now :).  She got her 15th tooth through today as well, her lower right canine, and it looks like her left one won't be too far behind.

She loves going to the Zoo, among other things, when she stays with Daddy and Shelley.  If you ask her what she saw at the zoo she always says the same things, in the same order: pengens, ga-ties (tigers), goats (at the petting zoo), wadda hands (wash your hands - after petting the goats) :).