I just thought I'd mention this as I thought it was rather sweet!
Today a little boy probably about 8 (well cub age...) came up to me and asked if I wanted his Happy Meal toy for my baby - I said she'd love it but didnt he want it - he said that he already had that toy and so did his sister so he had no use for it and thought the baby would like it. His mother seemed to be happy with this so I thanked him lots and let him give Jean the strange fog creature with teeth (I'm pretty sure frogs dont have teeth!).
He seemed really happy especially when Jean started playing with the thing - ok well she picked it up and flayaled it a bit.
Jean knows what shoes are for, when Al was changing her there was an odd shoe on the changing table - she picked it up handed it to Al and stuck her leg in the air - of course it was the wrong foot she was offering him but still!
She also got really excited when I got a pair of shoes out shes never seen before - she recognised them and instantly started trying to ram her feet into them - the discovery that they where too small upset her grately as she didnt realise I was getting another pair and thought I was just taking the shoes away before she had been for a walk!
She also now points at mine and Als shoes when she wants to walk!
The other interesting thing is that she has worked out either that you are supposed to wear cloths or that they make you warmer - when we are doing the morning wash and nappy change if she can reach her clean cloths - she will hand them to us one by one and then start head butting or kicking them in an effort to put them on!
Silly little baby - she did look cute on her walk today though and she was grinning delightedly - I normally walk her on my own so dont get to see that she loves it - I thought I might be impossing it on her but now I feel much better!
No she isnt walking by herself yet but she can most definatly walk - she just walked a fair distance round the garden between me and Babara, with one opsy daisy due to the fact she was getting tired and decided she was going to crawl reguardless of the the adults holding onto her!
The not walking thing is holding her back at nursery though as they dont move you on untill you are a year old and can walk 🙁
This strange cos she stands up by herself and also has been edging along things for a long time now - she stood up before she started crawling. Maybe like with the crawling she needs a proper insentive - ie didnt show any interest in crawling until kittens appeared then zoom she was off!
Sigh - oh well her language developement is good so maybe she's just concentrating on that at the moment!
We have been down with the 'plague' ie bad colds for the last two weeks - its not been good - Jean the first to be ill is just about over it, I the second to catch it am still feeling really grotty though better than the three days I spent in bed, now Al is sickening and has had to drink large quantities of cough mixture 🙁 He gets sinus stuff bad so we have all the joys of post nasal drips with him - not good.
Just thought I'd best blog as I havent for ages!
I've also currently got an acting up pelvis - sigh - its clicking painfully agian. Its my own fault I slipped over last week at the capfire - but like away from the fire and inbetween groups - it was a bit embarrasssing as I couldnt get up and the elderly camp warden and Al dressed as a Yeti found me and helped me up. I was carrying my coffee at the time, so that was split on me and was ouchy hot as the mark on my finger testified the next day!
I also fell out of the van yesturday as I thought our back tire was on fire (long story) this added to cold and damp (I dont care that Al says its warm!) has been a bit of a pain 🙁
Anyway enough of the maoning and self pity - hopefully I'll be back on form with the posts soon!
Jeani-Bow is really starting to work things out!
Sunday saw her do something very intreging - I walked past with some left over chocolate from Halloween in a bowl, Jean saw it and started asking for the Yummy. I told her no she couldnt have it as it was Mummy's Yummy, she wailed in ingdignation - that old cross donald duck face again. I put the bowl on the table, Jean went quiet to my suprise as I expected more wailing. But no, instead she crawled to the other side her room to her little blue bouncy chair, then round the back of it. She then stood herself up and pushed it along - stumbling after it. She pushed it right up to the table - meaning that the bit you sit on was under the table, she then crawled under the table and onto the seat. This was where her plan failed - she kept trying to stand up on the seat but off course it was half under the table so she kept banging her head on it! But the idea was there - thought out and almost perfectly exicuted - I gave her a little piece of the marzipan off of the choc orange pumkin as she'd tried so hard. Of course I probably should have told her off for still going for something I'd told her she couldnt have!
Yesturday saw her trying to blow her noise into a square of tissue to! She only tries to do this after I've had to blow my noise though and not when hers is actually runny! If I try and wipe her nose she still pulls away as fast as possible!
She has also reached the stage where she can arrange things - ok so her dexterity is not quiet good enough for what shes trying to do but the thought processes are there - I bought some plastic block things in the same vien as her rollar balls - made by Fisher Price. I got them in a charity shop and they are supposed to be her christmass presant - they where sitting on the stairs after being washhed, waiting to be hidden. Jean told me she'd pooed and started crawling for the stairs. I followed her - she found the blocks on the stairs and begain to arrange them - first of all she moved them all up a step but insisted that they all be upside doewn so their identical (but different coloured) bottoms where all visible. The she put them in two rows - then she got very annoyed cos mummy didnt understand and put them on a different step (I was trying to encourage her to go up the stairs). Then she put them bak on the step she'd found them on - trying to restack them in their original pattern - unfortunatly shes just a bit too clumsy still to manage that one!
Jean | sarah | 
Thu 14th Dec 2006 10:21 pm | 
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