Two years ago today.... wow!
We ever thought we'd get to this point, but we have done and we have a beautiful, clever and funny little girl that make our lives complete.
Leila is really physical and can run, jump and climb. She enjoys walking to the end of the road (after which we tend to put her in the buggy as the road is busy and the next bit of the walk anywhere can take a while). She can help us getting dressed and undressed, but often gets frustrated at this.
Her language and communication continue to astound us. She is picking up more and more each day and it's not just words, but understanding and application too. She now knows her numbers 1-10 easily, to 14 well and to 20 at a push. These higher numbers we haven't taught her, but she has picked up from her game on the jobby that we let her play. We got a new book recently about shapes and she now can identify common shapes (and some less common ones such as semi-circle). What is amazing is that she can identify them herself when we are out and about (for example she noticed that the window on the door at playgroup was 'diamond' shaped), not just when we are pointing at them in a book.
Leila is really using her imagination now. She likes to pretend play with her toys (this mainly involves them being babies and having their nappies changed, having boob, being burped, being sick) and for her birthday we bought her the Ikea kitchen set and she loves cooking, making us coffee and washing up! One interesting use of imagination was last week when she started that her slice of cheese looked like a giraffe! It kind of did, so she was right :-)
We're so happy that Leila still enjoys music, dancing, reading and singing. She can do the actions to most of the B&R rhymes and some of the words too ("sick, sick, sick" etc) and she recently learnt the dance to Agadoo! We have a great laugh when all four of us do the Hocky Cokey together and she always has a book before bedtime :-)
Leila is really caring for Edward and we're glad that she is a cuddly little girl. She used to always run for mummy when something went wrong, but now she is happy to be comforted by daddy too. She doesn't seem to have too much jealousy for Edward, but rather wants to be involved in everything he does (she wants to 'see' every nappy change and poo!)
Leila can get really upset when things don't go her way or she cannot get something that she wants e.g. playing a game on the jobby or having a snack. These crying spates are worse when she is tired of course. She tends to be pretty good about getting hurt and can be calmed down by a quick distraction, gentle rub and blow and the promise of some ouch cream (sudocrem) or a plaster.
Health-wise it's amazing to think back to her troubled start in El Nada. She is a generally healthy little girl, with just the usual scrapes, bruises and colds that every toddler has.
We ever thought we'd get to this point, but we have done and we have a beautiful, clever and funny little girl that make our lives complete.
Leila is really physical and can run, jump and climb. She enjoys walking to the end of the road (after which we tend to put her in the buggy as the road is busy and the next bit of the walk anywhere can take a while). She can help us getting dressed and undressed, but often gets frustrated at this.
Her language and communication continue to astound us. She is picking up more and more each day and it's not just words, but understanding and application too. She now knows her numbers 1-10 easily, to 14 well and to 20 at a push. These higher numbers we haven't taught her, but she has picked up from her game on the jobby that we let her play. We got a new book recently about shapes and she now can identify common shapes (and some less common ones such as semi-circle). What is amazing is that she can identify them herself when we are out and about (for example she noticed that the window on the door at playgroup was 'diamond' shaped), not just when we are pointing at them in a book.
Leila is really using her imagination now. She likes to pretend play with her toys (this mainly involves them being babies and having their nappies changed, having boob, being burped, being sick) and for her birthday we bought her the Ikea kitchen set and she loves cooking, making us coffee and washing up! One interesting use of imagination was last week when she started that her slice of cheese looked like a giraffe! It kind of did, so she was right :-)
We're so happy that Leila still enjoys music, dancing, reading and singing. She can do the actions to most of the B&R rhymes and some of the words too ("sick, sick, sick" etc) and she recently learnt the dance to Agadoo! We have a great laugh when all four of us do the Hocky Cokey together and she always has a book before bedtime :-)
Leila is really caring for Edward and we're glad that she is a cuddly little girl. She used to always run for mummy when something went wrong, but now she is happy to be comforted by daddy too. She doesn't seem to have too much jealousy for Edward, but rather wants to be involved in everything he does (she wants to 'see' every nappy change and poo!)
Leila can get really upset when things don't go her way or she cannot get something that she wants e.g. playing a game on the jobby or having a snack. These crying spates are worse when she is tired of course. She tends to be pretty good about getting hurt and can be calmed down by a quick distraction, gentle rub and blow and the promise of some ouch cream (sudocrem) or a plaster.
Health-wise it's amazing to think back to her troubled start in El Nada. She is a generally healthy little girl, with just the usual scrapes, bruises and colds that every toddler has.
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