A year ago a friend told me that one was the best age to be, and largely I'd agree with that. We've watched Daisy grow from a baby into a little (very little) girl, and on the whole, apart from a couple of bumps along the way, it's been pretty painless. OK, so she's the world's pickiest eater, refusing all fruit and vegetables unless cunningly hidden inside pasta sauce or the like, and she is very adamant about not trying anything new, edible or otherwise, and she's grown quite whiny in the past few months, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised as I was all of those things when I was her age :). And at the same time, she's extremely clever, her speech is well ahead of its time and she makes me laugh every day.
A couple of examples of said intelligence/laughter-making abilities: -
Jon usually gets home from work just before Daisy's bath time, so they go upstairs and play catch-you on the landing while the bath's running. In the last month they've developed a new game, 'walk like a...' and so far their favourites are giant (first on the video) and penguin: -
Here's one of my favourite videos of Daisy, singing Twinkle Twinkle. If I'm sitting at the computer, I'll just play this in the background: -
Clare bought Daisy a trampoline for her birthday. Here she is trying it out for the first time: -
There's a lovely conversation that happens every night at bath time. Jon usually does bath time with Daisy and they have a little routine - after 'catch you' on the landing while the bath's running, it's bath, get dry, nappy on, climb the ladder (stepladder) to brush teeth, then I come upstairs and do stories. I often hear the following conversation when Daisy's getting out of the bath: -
Jon: We're going to get you nice and dry, then put your nappy on, then what?
Daisy: Then brush teeth up the ladder!
Jon: That's right. Then what do we do? Pyjamas on, then...?
Daisy: Milk and stories. Then bed!
Jon: Good girl. And what do you do in bed?
Daisy: Sleep.
Jon: That's right. And how do you sleep? Do you close your eyes?
Daisy: No. Eyes open. No close your eyes.
Then in the morning we invariably have a similar conversation: -
Me: Morning Daisy! Did you have a good sleep?
Daisy: In my new bed!
Me: Did you close your eyes to sleep?
Daisy: No, eyes open.
She's got a couple of other cute phrases that I haven't managed to catch on camera. A few weeks ago she started saying 'Genga, genga, genga,' over and over. I had no idea what she was saying, so every time she did it, I would say, 'What are you saying? Genga?' I still don't know what she was saying but she's stopped now. However, every time I say 'Genga' she says 'What say genga?'
Every time she puts her (or my, or anyone else's) sunglasses on, she says 'Very cool...'
She has taken Peppa Pig very much to her heart this past month, to the point where we rarely watch anything else when we're in the house (thankfully not all that much as the weather has been pretty nice this past month). I think it's a close call for favourite character between Suzy Sheep and Pedro Pony... she does ask to watch the episode where Pedro gives Peppa an eye test quite a lot, so maybe Pedro is the current favourite. She often says, 'That's funny, Pedro!' if one of us does something to make the other laugh, and when she's being naughty and we tell her it's not funny, she has taken to saying 'It is a bit funny...' just like Daddy Pig says. Which of course makes us laugh. Naughty Daisy!
She's started to recognise some letters: d is for dolphin, v is for vulture, h is for 'ippo, i is for iguana and j is for jaguar (she has an ABC Zoo book).
She's getting really good at singing 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' - I'll try and get a video for next month. This month, though, how about the Rainbow Song? This was taken on her birthday, and for whatever reason, she sings 'today' at the end, instead of 'too': -
Happy Birthday, Beautiful Girl!
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