The speed with which Aimee is picking up things these days is frankly quite scary. It seems that she’s doing something new virtually everyday. I first noticed it a week or so ago, when she suddenly started saying “Bye-bye” to me and blowing me a kiss when I left for work in the morning.
This morning, whilst she was drinking her morning milk (not formula milk, normal milk) she picked up Emma’s mobile. As she always does, she puts it to the side of her face and starts saying “Hiya! Hiya!” into the phone – this isn’t new – what was, was her looking and pointing at the display (the phone wallpaper is, of course, a photo of her) and saying, with some surprise in her voice – “Baba!”. She’s self-aware, and recognizes herself.
It carries on too – with her pointing at me and saying “Dada” and at Emma and saying “Mama”. When I got home from work, she was still up – and did some amazing – at least in my very rose-tinted ‘Daddy’ glasses – things.
Aimee loves CBeebies’ ‘In The Night Garden’, along with most of the rest of the UK under 4 population, and she has some Night Garden toys. I asked her to fetch me Igglepiggle, and she went straight across the room, picked up her Igglepiggle doll and brought him straight to me. She repeated this with her Makka-Pakka and Upsy-Daisy dolls, and her teddy bear. She recognizes the names and has associated them with the dolls!
We’ve also recently bought her a little bean-bag armchair, for her to sit in. We bought her this on Saturday – and she kept half-sitting on it, and squashing down the arms, but by today, she’s got the seat all worked out, and has her toys lined up around it, so that she can sit down and play with her toys! Clever girl!
Her other trick is ‘reading’ – she picks up her books and ‘reads’ away to herself, all in mad babyspeak, of course, but she seems content that she’s telling herself the story.
All this, and she sleeps all night without fuss! Now, if only we could solve this wee problem with her apparently ‘biting’ other kids at nursery…
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