We spent the first week of Daisy's thirty-fourth month on holiday with Jon's family in Littleport, about an hour away. We had a great week and Daisy really enjoyed having Jessica, Finn and Eloise to play with. She shared a room with Jess and Eloise and felt very grown up :).
There was a piano in the holiday house, and Daisy was happy to show us her talents in this area, despite the fact that the piano was horribly out of tune. Here's a video - I love that she's 'playing' a story book, but still needs the pages turning... Apologies to Brenda, who won't like the fact that she can be heard saying 'We've got a bottle of rosé' in the background :).
Sticking with the musical theme, I caught her singing 'Go the Distance' from Hercules while coming down the stairs one morning on holiday. I ran to get the video camera but when I got back she wasn't keen on repeating her performance, so I did what any parent would do in that situation - bribed her.
She's learning lots from nursery, including the days of the week which I haven't got on video yet, but I'll do it for next month. Instead, here's her rendition of 'Walking through the Jungle', which they sing at nursery a lot: -
Her new favourite DVD is 'Spicable Me', and she loves joining in with the dancing at the end. She's a bit more subdued than normal in this video (typical), and doesn't do the bottom thing that Vector does on the moon, but she copies all the other moves...
And finally, here's a video I shot the other day of her making herself laugh: -
What started out as a little quirk of hers is slowly but surely becoming more obsessive-compulsive in nature - she has certain things that must be done in a particular order. For example, when she plays tea parties, everyone always has to have the same colour crockery: Daisy has pink, Mummy has blue, Dee has purple, Jen has yellow, etc. Last weekend we lost the purple plate and Daisy couldn't quite compute that instead of Jon not having a plate, he could just use Jen's, as she wasn't there. She quite often says 'Would you like to pick one?' when she's set out the tea party, and if I ask for a colour other than blue, she tells me I can't have it because it belongs to someone else... Another example is that I asked her to draw a picture the other day, and she drew a multi-coloured picture but she picked up the coloured pencils in rainbow order: red first, then orange, then yellow, green, blue and purple. Then she started with red again. She has a box of Charlie & Lola books that she likes to read before bedtime, but they must always be read in the same order: first the yellow one, about playing, then blue, about having lunch, then the green one, about getting up, and lastly the orange one about going to bed. Woe betide anyone who tries to change the order...
Finally for this month, the other day she was doing something a bit weird, I forget what it was, but I said 'What are you doing, you crazy child?' Her reply was 'I'm not a crazy child, I'm a bossy boots!'
