Dear Isabelle,
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| Future policewoman? |
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| Look how far we have come since her crying days |
You are talking loads, young lady! These days mummy can make a simple conversation with you. You can tell me what you want, or not (most of the time it's "no no no, I don't want xxx"). You make me chuckle sometimes. The other morning after I gave you some cereal with milk, you came to me with both hands holding the empty bowl and asked "Can I have some more, please?" Mummy almost flipped - wow since when can you string a long sentence like this? And that scene immediately reminded me of Oliver Twist.
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| You are like a big girl here |
Mummy seriously thinks you know more than 20 nursery rhyme songs under your belt. You can sing almost any song which I quote, which is pretty amazing. You sing when we are in the car; you sing when you can't sleep; you sing when you are playing too. The other day we were in the hospital as mummy had a scan appointment and you were belting out Mary had a little lamb in the waiting room. One elderly couple told us that you were "very cute" and that you sang very well. They then told us singing helps with the stringing of sentences and helps with the speech. I'm guessing that's why you are talking very well my young lady.
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| Feeding your penguin some tea |
Our weekday routine
Like an alarm clock, you will automatically wake up by 7.15am almost everyday. That's when daddy leaves the house to catch the train to work, so sometimes you will get to say goodbye to daddy with your sleepy eyes. Very rarely you sleep past 7.30am. Quite often you will run over to mummy and daddy's bed and if you feel like a cuddle, you will climb in. If not, you will start calling "mummy" to see if mummy is awake and if I am, you start talking to me. Oh how I wish you could let mummy sleep in...
Mummy will make you a bottle of milk to start the day and change your nappy. These days you can tell me "shall we change the nappy?" I guess a full nappy makes you uncomfortable so yes, let's change you out of that wet nappy! For 3 days a week mummy will bring you to Vanessa's where you would spend the day with "Nessa" as you call her, and your friends.
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| Going to Nessa's |
Not before us having breakfast together though. Mummy will get ready us for the day and change you as well. We then go to our kitchen and I will always ask "What do you want to eat for breakfast Isabelle?" Most of the time you will say "cereal with milk-milk". Sometimes I offer you a peanut butter toast or oats. Sometimes mummy buys ready made pancakes and last week you tried crumpets for the first time which you liked. Yesterday you cracked me up when I offered you a peanut butter toast and upon the first bite, you gave it back to me and said "I don't really like it.." What, baby? Where did you learn that?
It's always a slow and lazy start and mummy is in no hurry to bring you over to Nessa's. Most of the time we leave the house between 930-10am. These days as it is cold in the morning (this morning it was 3deg!), mummy tends to drive even though it's just down the road. But yesterday it was sunny and nice, so mummy suggested walking there and you did really well - you walked all the way to Nessa's house! You now recognise that it is the same route to the playground and when you saw the park in the distance, you asked "Shall we go to the playground, please?" Amazing conversation skills, baby. But sorry, not today. Let's go another day, shall we?
You are usually not very excited when mummy drops you off, you stare at me when I leave. However today there was a change. You went straight to the toys on the table and started talking to Caroline, one of the assistants. You even waved goodbye to me and said "Love you." Heart melting moment right there!
Mummy will come back and spend the day doing household chores or simply rest because mummy is always so tired these days.
Come evening time around 5pm, mummy will start preparing the ingredients needed to cook dinner. Then mummy will have to dress warmly and walk about 12min to pick you up. Sorry baby, somehow you are always the last one to be picked up these days. You always light up when you see me. And these days, you associate mummy with biscuits. You come up and hug me and will almost immediately ask "mummy, biscuits!" Or you will fumble around with my little bag and say "I find biscuits.." Is mummy the biscuit lady now, baby?
Mummy will always ask Nessa how did you do today - what did you eat, how long did you nap for, did you have any soiled nappies, etc. Soon we put on your shoes and jacket and say bye bye to Nessa. You love repeating after everyone. Yesterday Nessa said "bye, baby!" to you and you said the same thing back to her lol
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| Mummy found you cleaning your wellies one Sunday morning because you love wearing them so much, even in the house |
We make our way home and again mummy offers you some light food because Nessa serves dinner at 430pm so you can eat (again) when we get home! Evening time is also when mummy switches on the TV for you so mummy can start cooking. Daddy will usually (hopefully) be on his way home by then, so he can help out to get you ready for bedtime while mummy finishes cooking.
We try to go upstairs to start your bedtime routine around 7-7.20pm. You prefer mummy to put you to bed and sadly these days you keep saying "I don't want daddy" when daddy tries to put you to bed. You know daddy is a softie and you do take advantage of that by running out of your bedroom to look for me, or simply climb into mummy and daddy's bed. We are glad that we can put you down in your own bed by 8pm, and say good night while you fall asleep by yourself, but we still need to work on times when you wander over in the middle of the night and we try to bring you back to your own bed to sleep. We have less than one more month to work on this so let's jiayou ok?
You are like a little sponge, soaking up everything you see and hear. It's so wonderful to see you talking and learning so well. We thank God for you and are ever so grateful you are ours, our greatest Christmas blessing, our champion baby.
Mummy & Daddy xxx
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