Leila is really cuddly at the moment and will throw her arms around you when she is picked up for a cuddle. She will give cuddles on 'demand' ("Leila, can mummy have a cuddle, please?") but is also a fickle thing (by pushing you away if she really doesn't fancy a cuddle). She is cuddling her toys too and likes to play how-many-soft-toys-can-I-carry-at-once? Her maximum is three; which needs working on if she is going to impress anyone.
Leila is doing more and more copying now which is really cute and great sign of development. Some of her copying is actions, and some is words/sounds.
Leila's speciality for sounds is animal sounds and a favourite is the elephant (which often involves the action of a long trunk with her arm too!). She can do lion, monkey (sometimes) and now cat. It's great fun when Dear Zoo comes on the music box and and she does the action/sounds of her own accord! This morning she also did the 'send them back' pointing in Dear Zoo and often does the action of lifting her arms up 'high' in the Dance Around song. She will also 'blurgle blurgle' as she picks up the Burglar Bill book for me to read.
She's started to 'read' to herself which is really cute too as she flips through the pages of a book and chatters away. Funny books to watch her do this with are her Mog book, as she will 'meow' on certain pages and of course say 'aaaat' a lot, and the Lion the Lion book, because she will chatter to herself and then 'eeak!' to make the 'squeak' sound that the book makes. The great thing about this development is that it means she is happy playing on her own and gives us a little bit of 'down time' during the day.
When we were in the UK we started to teach her to put her hands on her head and say 'Oh no!' when something went wrong (like dropping all her cards on the floor). We're still playing this game and she will put her hands to her head when we do. One of the nursery rhymes she likes is Rock-a-bye Baby and when I sing this I often pick up one of her toys to rock like a baby and then drop on the floor. She will copy the rocking part, but not yet the dropping bit in the song (probably a good thing?!!)
In other news; we have not been having a successful week in terms of 'getting things done' - in fact we've had the opposite! Our internet went down on Sunday afternoon and we've had an engineer out to look at the problem, but it still isn't fixed! On Sunday too the washing machine decided to start making a terrible noise and not drain properly (water all over the floor etc!) so the landlord called an engineer. Embarrassingly the engineer managed to fix this in about 10 minutes as he removed a large button from the drain pipe! Ooops!
Leila is doing more and more copying now which is really cute and great sign of development. Some of her copying is actions, and some is words/sounds.
Leila's speciality for sounds is animal sounds and a favourite is the elephant (which often involves the action of a long trunk with her arm too!). She can do lion, monkey (sometimes) and now cat. It's great fun when Dear Zoo comes on the music box and and she does the action/sounds of her own accord! This morning she also did the 'send them back' pointing in Dear Zoo and often does the action of lifting her arms up 'high' in the Dance Around song. She will also 'blurgle blurgle' as she picks up the Burglar Bill book for me to read.
She's started to 'read' to herself which is really cute too as she flips through the pages of a book and chatters away. Funny books to watch her do this with are her Mog book, as she will 'meow' on certain pages and of course say 'aaaat' a lot, and the Lion the Lion book, because she will chatter to herself and then 'eeak!' to make the 'squeak' sound that the book makes. The great thing about this development is that it means she is happy playing on her own and gives us a little bit of 'down time' during the day.
When we were in the UK we started to teach her to put her hands on her head and say 'Oh no!' when something went wrong (like dropping all her cards on the floor). We're still playing this game and she will put her hands to her head when we do. One of the nursery rhymes she likes is Rock-a-bye Baby and when I sing this I often pick up one of her toys to rock like a baby and then drop on the floor. She will copy the rocking part, but not yet the dropping bit in the song (probably a good thing?!!)
In other news; we have not been having a successful week in terms of 'getting things done' - in fact we've had the opposite! Our internet went down on Sunday afternoon and we've had an engineer out to look at the problem, but it still isn't fixed! On Sunday too the washing machine decided to start making a terrible noise and not drain properly (water all over the floor etc!) so the landlord called an engineer. Embarrassingly the engineer managed to fix this in about 10 minutes as he removed a large button from the drain pipe! Ooops!
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