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Nonna Is Here!

Nonna is staying with us for a couple of months. This means that Mamma and Daddy can have a rest in the morning. Nonna loves playing with me at 5am!

Mamma went back to work this month. She is working most mornings at the moment, meaning that I spend a lot of time with my Nonna. She is helping me with three very important things:

1) Eating

It is every Nonna's duty to ensure that their grandchildren eat lots and lots. Even if said grandchildren aren't particularly hungry, their Nonna has to keep them busy eating. My Nonna is no different. Since I had been a bit poorly with teething and suspected lactose intolerance related diahorrea for a few weeks, my Nonna made sure that I ate lots of delicious things. She entertained me by pulling funny faces, singing songs and by dancing in a silly way. Meal times are never dull with my Nonna! It seems to have worked - I've gained almost a kilo since she arrived in early November. I now have a lovely round tummy!

2) Walking

Very, very important this. I have enjoyed standing up and cruising for several months now, but until Nonna arrived I wasn't confident enough to proceed to the next step (pardon the pun). There are two walking games that I enjoy; walking around with my Nonna / Mamma / Daddy holding my hands and walking between two seated people so they can catch me. I'm getting very good at these games. Everyone is hoping that I will be walking by the time I start Nursery in January.

Nonna bought me my first pair of shoes too - a pair of Clarks pink crawling shoes with buckles. They are very pretty and my walking has really improved from wearing them. Thank you Nonna!

3) Talking

Thanks to Nonna, Mamma and Daddy I have become an accomplished babbler. I can now understand lots of words and phrases in English and Italian, even if I tend to guess some the answers to some of my family's questions.

For example, I like cows. I call them 'Moos'. Whenever I see a picture of a cow, a toy cow or anything that looks like a cow I say 'Moo!'. Unfortunately there are lots of other animals that look a bit like cows (for example dogs, cats, sheep, aardvarks...) that I also call 'Moos'. The only other animals that I can recognise right now are ducks (I make a squelchy quack noise) and fish (I open and close my mouth like a fish). Daddy says that soon I will be better at recognising other animals so I shouldn't worry.

I also understand the word 'No', even if I ignore why it is being said most of the time. I also shake my head (as if to say 'No' too) before doing something naughty.

Dancing Queen

Daddy thinks that I will be a musical little girl when I grow up. Let's examine the evidence:

1) Dancing

I have a few musical toys that play tunes when you press the right button on them. I have a musical piano (that plays 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and 'This Old Man'), a pop-up musical piano (excerpts from 'Peter and the Wolf', 'Vivaldi's Four Seasons' plus the usual nursery rhymes) and an VTech alphabet desk that plays 'If You're Happy And You Know It', 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', 'Incey Wincey Spider' and 'I've Been Working On The Railroad'. What I like to do is start one of the toys playing by pressing the right button (all my myself natch!) then start dancing. For me, dancing means bouncing up and down on my knees. What is even more fun is to start all of the toys playing together then start dancing, but this gives Mamma, Daddy and Nonna a headache.

My parents have also discovered that I am a fan of ABBA's 'Mamma Mia' and 'Does Your Mother Know'. Same dance as before, just a bit faster. Auntie Anne (who is Swedish herself and an ABBA fan) is very proud of me.

2) Singing

I like singing along to my musical toys. I'm more proficient with the rhythm of the music than the actual tune, but I'm getting better.

3) Musical Instruments

I have quite a few rattles, tamborines, shakers and other percussion instruments. I really enjoy playing with them. However, best fun of all is getting a spoon and a plastic box and bashing them together - for a really long time. My personal record is currently about twenty minutes, at which point I had a little Code Brown accident and I had to taken away to be changed.

Christmas Is Coming!

Christmas was a bit of a mystery to me last year. This year might be as well but for different reasons. All through November, Mamma kept putting me in really cute party dresses and trying to take photographs of me. She wouldn't tell me why exactly, but I heard snippets of words like 'Birthday Invites' and 'Christmas Presents'. I'm sure all will be revealed soon enough.

I look lovely in my photos, by the way.

More Photos From November 2005

			Leave me alone! I'm busy playing!
			More bathtime fun!
			Walking With Nonna!
			My toy chest. I'm just tall enough now to reach inside and take things out now.
			My Christmas photos. Mamma took these.

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