Fork and certficates

Alice started using a fork for the first time this week. She seemed to quite enjoy using it. She can't quite puncture the food with the fork yet, but if we put the food on the fork she puts it in her mouth. It also gets her eating a wee bit extra as it's a novelty at the moment. She could put the food on the fork a couple of times but it took so long for her to eat we would end up putting the food on as well. Very clever girl.

On that note, she got her first certificate this week too. Not sure if this scheme exists in Northern Ireland, but in England they're trying to encourage people to join libraries and read more. So they have a scheme called book start. You get free books and when you join the library you get a sticker for the first four visits and then get a free book and this certificate. Stuart wanted to put it up in her bedroom. We didn't!!!! First of many we hope.


In the past couple of weeks she has had an explosion of language. She tries to copy everything we say these days. She is learning a new word every day. The latest are: "aggie" for hankie, "adow" for shadow, "go go" for babygrow, "ammy" for mummy, "giga" for Iggle Piggle (a character from In the Night Garden), "wazzee" for washing, "addee" for Amen, "annie" for Nanny and "papa" for Grandpa. There are loads more, but wanted to pick the highlights. She's even starting to try and put words together too. Her sense of humour keeps us very entertained. She plays wee games with us to try and make us laugh and will just laugh raucously for what seems like no reason and keep doing it. Today she did it in Marksies and people kept laughing at her as they walked past.

We were also playing around with the camera today, before we both watched the Olympics Opening Ceremony. OK, Pauline watched it, Alice played with all her toys. So just a funny pic to finish.