It’s been so long since I’ve updated regularly I’ve started to get a few concerned comments and emails – oops, sorry if I worried anyone! I did have a fairly bleak period through December and early January that left me not wanting (or having the energy) to write, but I’ve been feeling much better for the last week or so, and quite positive about the new year.
It’s been very quiet here in any case, as we have been staying home almost all the time to escape the summer weather and keep our spending down. I’ve been doing lots of knitting and crochet, and reading more books than I have for a long time. Just after Christmas I started tackling the 20-odd unread volumes on my shelves and I’m now about halfway though them, though I did abandon a couple after the first couple of chapters. My leisure time is too precious for bad books! There have been some very enjoyable reads too. I’m keeping a list of my 2012 reading and will post it at the end of each month with some comments.
Willow’s language is now streaking ahead. I kept a record of her first words, not counting names for people/pets, though I stopped when we got to 75 in December because she was learning so many so quickly I couldn’t keep up!
For posterity, here’s that list:
cat
hey
num (yummy)
poo
please
bye
sock
car
banana
eyes
nose
face
cake
oops
neck
peekaboo
what’s that?
comb
flower
slide
(what does a cat say?) meow
ball
outside
wees
teeth
book
toast
moon
door
baby
tickle
milk
hat
pen
ears
chair
paper
water
block
tower
bear
all gone
up
down
stuck
wheel
beach
star
toes
frog
again
bath
foot
sneeze (and a fake sneeze noise: ah-choo!)
boat
phone
watch
(what does a watch say?) tick-tick
chin
stairs
cheese
cup
apple
keys
mouse
spoon
hand
balloon
fly
stamp
mouth
bucket
sun
towel
I wouldn’t be surprised if she knows twice that many now, as she’s learned more animals, more body parts, more foods, the numbers 1-10 (though not in order) – it’s pretty amazing, really! At first we were actively teaching her most of the words, but now she absorbs them by herself, and keeps coming out with words and phrases we had no idea she knew.
Her 17th and 18th teeth popped out over the weekend too, the lower back molar on each side. Just two more to go and we’ll be DONE with teeth for a few years.
I feel it is time to crochet now. I haven’t touched yarn all day, and that will not stand! Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with this bloggingthing a little more regularly from now on, as the first one after a break is always the toughest. And thank you for checking up on me :)