Freya is coming up with some great lines at the moment. Yesterday there was an earwig on the ground next to her, and she said in her cutest voice "Hello little creature!". A couple of days ago we were looking at a convoy of snails near the front door and she was saying "Hello snails! Hello little one!". Very nice.
Many of her conversations involve not-so-nice comments, such as those ones we have been teaching her for dealing with less pleasant situations at creche. "Don't speak to me like that" and "move away" are ones we often hear, if we have committed some minor transgression. She also likes to correct our choice of words. Just the other night I pointed up in the sky and said "Look Freya, those are the pointers!" and she said "No they're not pointers, they are bork!" And on a less gibberishy note, when Freya was in the swing yesterday, Rebecca pointed to the blossoms on the nectarine tree and said "These are nectarines", and Freya said "No, they're not nectarines, they're blossoms."
In spider news, Auxilliary Blackie has emerged from her web and is just as huge and fiendish as last year. I can't imagine that she'll live beyond this summer.
I also have three young, small black house spiders in the nice spots in the conservatory, who are all growing nicely. One has taken over EFMB's spot from last year, and has patched up the web quite nicely. There are a couple of other blackies living under the verandah outside, but they tend to get eaten by birds fairly quickly. Just last week the daddy longlegs in the primary toilet ate a reasonable sized blackie that stumbled into its web, probably while searching for some new digs.
Last week of skool coming up... hooray. This term has generally been good, but there have been a few rough patches. On the whole I am feeling that I'm on top of things, although one of my classes regularly tramples over me like a herd of ADHD goats and leaves me dazed and bloody in the foetal position on the floor. (OK that's an exaggeration - I'm not dazed, just playing dead.)
Poor Boog has had hand, foot & mouth disease and was excluded from creche for most of last week, so Reb & I alternated days off. Part time rocks! Freya was a bit cranky while she was sick, but has perked up a lot now, and is healthily cranky instead. When we took her to the Dr (and saw Dr Satan, who really did not live up to the terrible reputation I have previously given him) she was staring at the jelly beans, and as we left the room (having forgotten about them) her little face started to crumple into tears and she cried "I want a jelly bean!". Fortunately it was easily fixed, and she was much happier. At home during the week we read lots of books, played with her trains and play-dough, and even had a go at making some sparkly feathery shiny goo things.
Have been getting out into the garden, and have made a really big difference to the weeds, and also straightened up a couple of our trees which were falling over in the front garden. Looks very good, if I may say so.
Many of her conversations involve not-so-nice comments, such as those ones we have been teaching her for dealing with less pleasant situations at creche. "Don't speak to me like that" and "move away" are ones we often hear, if we have committed some minor transgression. She also likes to correct our choice of words. Just the other night I pointed up in the sky and said "Look Freya, those are the pointers!" and she said "No they're not pointers, they are bork!" And on a less gibberishy note, when Freya was in the swing yesterday, Rebecca pointed to the blossoms on the nectarine tree and said "These are nectarines", and Freya said "No, they're not nectarines, they're blossoms."
In spider news, Auxilliary Blackie has emerged from her web and is just as huge and fiendish as last year. I can't imagine that she'll live beyond this summer.
I also have three young, small black house spiders in the nice spots in the conservatory, who are all growing nicely. One has taken over EFMB's spot from last year, and has patched up the web quite nicely. There are a couple of other blackies living under the verandah outside, but they tend to get eaten by birds fairly quickly. Just last week the daddy longlegs in the primary toilet ate a reasonable sized blackie that stumbled into its web, probably while searching for some new digs.
Last week of skool coming up... hooray. This term has generally been good, but there have been a few rough patches. On the whole I am feeling that I'm on top of things, although one of my classes regularly tramples over me like a herd of ADHD goats and leaves me dazed and bloody in the foetal position on the floor. (OK that's an exaggeration - I'm not dazed, just playing dead.)
Poor Boog has had hand, foot & mouth disease and was excluded from creche for most of last week, so Reb & I alternated days off. Part time rocks! Freya was a bit cranky while she was sick, but has perked up a lot now, and is healthily cranky instead. When we took her to the Dr (and saw Dr Satan, who really did not live up to the terrible reputation I have previously given him) she was staring at the jelly beans, and as we left the room (having forgotten about them) her little face started to crumple into tears and she cried "I want a jelly bean!". Fortunately it was easily fixed, and she was much happier. At home during the week we read lots of books, played with her trains and play-dough, and even had a go at making some sparkly feathery shiny goo things.
Have been getting out into the garden, and have made a really big difference to the weeds, and also straightened up a couple of our trees which were falling over in the front garden. Looks very good, if I may say so.
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