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January 18, 2006
Shameless Mummy Post...
I can go as gooey over babies and toddlers as the next person and of course I loved that stage of my daughter’s life, cooing over every stage of her development; the first smile, first steps and first word (‘doggy’ but not ‘mummy’ bah!) etc. I always knew however that as much as I did my best, I was far better equipped to mother an older child, so secretly and almost guiltily I have always looked forward to the day when we would be able to hold down a semi intelligent conversation and share stories with slightly more character development and plot than ‘Cute rabbit gets lost, cute rabbit gets found again…’
I’m pleased to say that the time is arriving. I’m rather impressed with the extent to which Littleone has developed since just before Christmas. Of course we still have the tantrums about what seem to be silly little trivialities but these moments are largely balanced out by her mounting intelligence and interest in the world. She comes home from school, bursting with questions (‘Is my head made out of metal, plastic, wood or fabric?’) and humorous misinformation (‘Boy cats have all the boy kittens and girl cats have the girl kittens.’) and is continually being praised by her teachers for her reading progress.
I am also assuming that by now, she is developing personality traits, which will largely hold for life. She is confident and polite, without being one of those showy brats and has an amazing but slightly surreal imagination. For this reason I’ve started to take her to a kids’ storytelling and role-playing class on a Monday evening and she returns vibrant and satisfied.
Oh and when she grows up she wants to be ‘a Kate Humble,’ by which I assume she means that she aspires to present TV programmes about Nature and Science. Could do a lot worse, I suppose.
There is more but I must stop now before this turns into a bragging post, which wasn’t my intention. I think what I’m tying to say is that I’ve been waiting for this moment with anticipation and I like who she has become. Can we just hold it like this for a while?
Right I’m off to investigate a suspicious crash from upstairs.
Posted by purple elephant at January 18, 2006 06:18 PM