Signs

Signs that D. is growing up fast...

1. Her head has overshot the top bar of the lower half of our balcony doors. (that's my informal height marker!)

2. Her dresses have become shorter and tighter - nothing to do with the prevailing fashions and styles :)))

3. She says intelligent things like "peenish" (that's finish - what were you thinking? :D) when something gets over.

4. She actually asked for her favourite food two nights ago - "potato pleej". I was forced to hurriedly whip up something - how can you have the heart to say no when she asks you so sweetly?

5. She enacts rhymes, matching verse to action, as in "teddy bear teddy bear t-un-ar-nd", executing a near-perfect ballerina twirl.

6. She asks for her puzzles by name, as in "aminal pujjle"! (animal puzzle), and she's able to do her ducky jigsaw puzzle in 40 seconds flat.

7. She wriggles her bottom while dancing - a *huge* step up from stamping her feet and waving her arms!

8. She speaks on the phone to her grandma - "ajjjiiiiiiiii - helloo - bye"

9. She removes her shoes all by herself and puts them in the shoe cupboard, and then pulls me along to see what she's accomplished, and pats herself on the back with "googurrrrl"! (good girl)

10. She identifies "bad anty" in Snow White and "phish" in Finding Nemo, all by herself!