Here is Marisca holding one of her current favourite toys. We got the brio set out this month, and Risky is rather keen on the trains ('choo choo!'), and making them slide down the ramp from the station. She's even getting the hang of putting the track together. When we visited Mary and Stewart earlier this month she lugged the box of train set round the sitting room trying to find someone to open it for her to play with - bless. As Tim and I also like the train set we're rather pleased at this development.
What else is new this month? Counting! Marisca is getting the hang of numbers and is very keen on counting things - she tends to skip one and get stuck straight in to two so it goes something like 'ooo, feee, fow, fi, si!' She also gets very excited when she sees numbers in a book/on a clock face/anywhere else: I'm not sure she knows which is which yet, but she knows what they are.
And fingers crossed we might have a breakthrough on the stairs. After months of being unable to get down stairs, and refusing to climb up them, she has just started voluntarily clambering upstairs sometimes. We're also working on a new, forward-facing-bottom-sliding technique for coming down, which seems to work as long as she's not too tired. A carry from Mummy or Daddy is still the preferred method of changing floors,but there's hope she might do it herself one day!
Has Tim tried introducing the forward-facing-bottom-sliding technique for going up the stairs as well? As I recall he was never quite as good as me at that.
ReplyDeleteFalse fact. I'll race you in a couple of weeks. We have three flights and I reckon you'll burn out after one.
ReplyDeletePS The top one is the trickiest.