Two... Two... Two...

Something has clicked in little B's head in the last couple of days and she is now beginning to imitate sounds a lot more and trying to talk... often with not a lot of meaning and it doesn't make sense most of the time ... but at least she is trying to make the sounds I am making now... I finally feel like we're making some progress! (Very excited here!)

Her latest thing is "counting"... (I use the term loosely!)... She walks around the house and points to random objects and says "Two"... and keeps walking around and pointing at things saying "Two"... I know she's trying to count, because she says it in the same tone of voice that I use when I count things with her (you know, in that voice most people use when they count to 10 for hide and seek). She occasionally says "Three"... but most of the time it's just "Two"... "One" is completely out of her league at the moment.

She has also been walking around saying "Why?"... "Why?"... "Why?"... just out of the blue, but it sounds like she's asking questions all the time... but she doesn't really know what she's saying!

Today's feature words are "Up... Down... Up... Down"... accompanied with a funny squatting movement when she goes up and down... Really funny to watch... Not so funny when she decides to bounce up and down on my lap really hard whilst calling out "Up... Down"...

Oh... did I mention she can say "Time for Sleep"? She does this cute hand movement when she pretends to lie her head on one hand and says it shen she wants to have a nap. Doesn't do it all the time, but she did it 3 times today, because she was really tired and really wanted me to take her upstairs for a nap, even though it was only 11:10am.

Just the regular stuff going on at the moment... it's the last week of term for KindyROO and playgroup... we have 2 weeks break now. At playgroup yesterday, it was a pajama party (all the kids dressed in their pjs) and we had an end of term party and we all brought in a plate of food to share (instead of the usual fruit the kids have for morning tea)... so there were lots of biscuits, little cakes and lollies. But would you believe, I gave Beth a little chocolate cupcake, she took a bite and then gave it back to me and then headed over to the plate of fruit and ate watermelon and banana! She totally dissed the junk food! It was so funny... she's so healthy. After she'd had her fill of fruit though, she did eat the cupcake... it just wasn't her first choice!