Things Coraline is up aged two and two months
Time does fly! The last time I wrote one of these top tens was when Coraline was "two and one week". I thought she's doing so amazingly with her development recently, that it was worth recording a new one!
Pulling herself up straight legged against things. In the past couple of days this has changed immensely! She pulls herself up to look in the fridge, on the sofa and so on. It's how quickly she can do it though, in a fluid motion, compared to when she first began tentatively a month ago.
When we do flash cards where I say letters to her, (we do ten minutes every day) she now attempts to sound some of the letters with me. Just ever so slightly, for a handful of them, but it feels huge! When we began them (gosh maybe a year ago?) she wasn't at all and hasn't until the past couple of months.
Coraline goes to “Digbies” on a Monday which we began in September (“developing individual growth by imaginative play, education and speech”). I am proud of myself for driving 50 mins to get there (20 mins is my comfort zone!). We are doing numbers 1-6 and colours red, blue, yellow, green with repetition. We practise at home and do the Makaton sign language for the colours. She doesn't say or recognise them yet but repetition is key.
On T.V. she likes “Bing". And she still likes “In the Night Garden". She sits and sways up and down to them!
We’ve been resting a spoon on her tray when she eats with her hands. Her Paediatrican said to leave it there. She’s just beginning to pick it up and bang it. Good progress!
Loving Preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Doing painting for the first time.
Time with an amazing childminder and other children on Wednesday mornings whilst I am doing eight weeks training to become a HomeStart volunteer
Hanging out with our neighbour Margaret on a Friday (and before and after Digbies on a Monday).
Laughing a lot with her dad.
In the space of September to November she will have seen her aunt and uncle, Grandpa, her aunt, uncle and cousins, Nana and Grandma. We all live in different places!