Our little girl is a real toddler now. All running, climbing and creating mayhem, mess and mischief. With older sisters about there are so many goodies to get her hands on… pen marks aplenty are being found on walls and furniture – eek!
Thought it was about time I shared a few pages out of Alice’s scrap book…
She’s a bit of a petrol head at the moment and if we’re not entertaining her lady-ship sufficiently at home she’ll point at the car, with a demanding finger, and say, ‘Brummmm, Brummmmm!’
I should add that if the buggy is out of the car and set-up she’ll sit in that and say, ‘Bbbbbb! Bbbbbb!’ – her equivalent to a dog running to her mistress with a lead for walkies!
Like most toddlers she loves animals and making sounds. The Zoo is a favourite hang out and she loves to try running down the many hills. There’s plenty of climbing action going on too!
She has her heart set on a doll’s house (not that she can tell us this, but Mummy just *knows* she must have it!). We visited Phil (who is a reader of this blog) to see a couple of amazing doll’s houses he has made and would love to buy this one… (just got to raise some cash at the upcoming school car boot sale this weekend!).
She’s got more teeth coming through than we can guess at – let’s just say if you put your finger in her mouth, watch out! There’s some serious gum-action with about four molars cutting through, as well as eye teeth. This means that Mummy dearest has Alice cuddled up close all night, comfort feeding, back rubbing and soothing.
When it comes to eating Alice is doing okay – still throwing more on the floor than putting it in her mouth. But she likes to try and clean up after herself – seeming to prefer the taste of her food after it’s fallen to the floor and picked up goodness knows what – (erm, serious problem of a mop missing in action at our place!). She’s also very observant of how our cat eats (never mind she has four other humans in the house demonstrating how to eat like a person… she continually tries to lap water out of a bowl when she thinks no one is looking).
She loves bath time and does a ‘splashing’ action when we call ‘bath time’ and heads for the stairs. She is definitely understanding so much of what we say and following simple actions, ‘Alice fetch a hat / ball / hair-brush…’ she can be quite useful really!
And she’s making lots of different sounds and chatter. Not many clear words, like her sisters had at the same age – but she really doesn’t get much chance to get a word in edge ways! She sometimes babbles as though she’s saying a full sentence and it really can sound like, ‘Give that to me’ or ‘Me have’ and occasionally even, ‘Excuse me’ (there’s definitely a ‘me’ theme!).
She is really loving her family and likes to give them big hugs and kisses – even Daddy when he gets home from riding up the hill on his bike… (now that’s REAL love! Awwwww!).
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Awww….cutie pie indeed! Love the fact that she is a petrolhead – she’ll get on well with Mylo there! Such a fascinating age right now when the communication and comprehension is growing in leaps and bounds. Hope the teeth come through quick!
So so cute 🙂
Just adorable to read…good luck with the dolls house mission…love it all and love to her big sisters too who are stars with their little sister.
What a beautiful dolls house…. Good luck at the car boot sale 🙂
What a lovely blog post, a great insight into your little girls world at the moment 🙂 Very special for years to come
LOVE that photo of her “driving” your car
reminds me of when I was a girl plying in my fathers car
I was much older than Alice though
I LOVE LOVE that dolls house
time flies doesnt it
I love posts like this. They are always such a treasure in months and years to come!
Love the doll house too. I want one but probably need a daughter first to justify it!!
Thank you! The girls Daddy wisely suggested they sell some of things to raise money for the doll’s house (so we’ve been having a much needed, overdue sort out!). x
Thanks Laura. I have to make sure I don’t leave out Alice – I used to do posts like this all the time for Charlotte & Sophie and we do look back on them a lot.
Tee hee, she loves anything that moves – she was shaking with excitement at the playground today every time a vehicle went past – the bigger the better! The big yellow buses got her very excited! Bless x
I always fancied one and the man who made it had done so for his mother – who loved them. He’s made a couple and the one in the photograph we fell in love with. There are some gorgeous miniature furniture items to go with it too. I suspect I might be fiddling and playing with it more than the girls!
What a ball of energy for you to chase around all day 🙂
Loving the dollhouse too.
I suspect so too Sarah…
haha. Lovely seeing little Alice again knocking on the dollshouse door. Didn’t she love it? Y’know since, I’ve been making these, I’ve really been struck by the deeply centred primal need of almost all females to have a dollshouse. Something to do with home making, nesting, no doubt, but that deep need and love of these things is extremely gratifying to me. Sold the other one you looked at Sarah, on Trademe #364456624. The woman, when she came to pick it up, was weeping with gratitude. Ohhhhhhh the emotion….. I felt completely drained. Look its unfair to say this, but I have got a STUNNER coming up. Maybe not so good for wee ones though, as more a collector’s item. But I just KNOW you are gunna want this one Sarah…..
nope…get it for YOU, Brooke
Dan’s very wise. I think I need him as a financial advisor myself! He’s worth it for the Coronation Street accent alone!!