Talk talk talk...

I often get comments on how well Heidi can communicate.  She can quite easily string a sentence together and comes up with some very long ones at that!  She has had the verbal ability to boss me around for a good six months now. 

We are certainly never left in the dark wondering what she wants, how she's feeling or what she thinks about any given thing.

As soon as Darryn comes home she parks herself on the couch and shouts her orders - "I need a drink, Dad", "More biccies please Dad", "Put the blanket over me please Dad".  I shake my head as he runs after her.  His defence is "My Mum did it for me".

She does seem however to add a B to any word that she finds a bit tricky.

She likes cruskits with Bacado (Avocado) and Vegemite - but no Bamato (tomato) thanks Mum.

Whenever you ask what she would like for dinner "Bisotto (Risotto) please Mum".

She loves going on the tractor with Dad to give all the cows their Balasses (molasses).

And as I curse every morning at what destruction the wallabies have caused overnight in the garden she reassures me "Don't be sad Mum, Daddy will shoot the naughty Wobblies, so they won't eat your garden." 

Heidi is loving magic at the moment - she has a magic wand and is constantly turning us all into this that and everything.  She turned Darryn into a frog the other night then proceeded to shuffle him out the door because "Mummy doesn't like frogs in her house!"

As her independence grows I'm hearing a lot more "I can do it", "Leave me Mum", "I will do it by myself!" and "Go away Mum's". 

She can count to 14 and knows all her colours. 

This little ray of sunshine brings a smile to our face every single day with her antics.  So there's just a little snapshot of Heidi today - no doubt tomorrow she will come up with something new and equally hilarious. Can't wait :-)