Abigail keeps asking Ruth, John Luke and I how old we are.
She thinks forty six (my age) is very old, and tells us that she is “Threety forty years old”. Not just three.
Not only is she creative with numbers, but spelling as well.
We are trying to explain spelling phonetically e.g. buh-ih-ruh-duh for bird. But whichever [...]
When little kids draw pictures it can be hard to tell what it is they have drawn.
Abby is just the same. Where she sees arms, legs, dinosaurs, flowers etc. all I can see is a lot of squiggly lines.
Then the other day she produced this really good picture of a person / face. The arms [...]
Abby loves sticker books. She spends ages daintily ripping stickers out of books and sticking them back in.
Once she has decided were to put the sticker, she carefully places it, presses it down firmly, then immediately takes it off again. She will do this until the sticker loses any traces of stickiness and just becomes [...]
Abigail is developing quite a personality. She talks non stop from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to bed.
The only things that keep her quite are food (especially chocolate) and the television (particularly In The Night Garden and Pingu).
The other day she made up the word ‘booshuwa’, and ran around shouting [...]
Abigail’s language skills are improving day by day. As is her walking and crawling (she can crawl down a flight of stairs backwards).
When you talk to her she likes to try copy the things you say. Although she can’t make all the vowel and consonant sounds yet, she is very good at copying the rhythm [...]
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