I thought yesterday that there are a few things we’ve taken for granted recently that are actually news! So first to Imogen:

She is no longer wearing nappies during the day! About a month ago she just stopped using nappies at home, and one day I tried putting one on her to go out and she said “yuck no!” so since then she’s been out of nappies! It happened in such a natural and stress-free way that I barely even noticed. She still wears one overnight but at the moment it’s not really necessary. Since we’ve had some experience with Kira though we’ll probably leave it on for longer.
She is constructing sentences in very adorable ways. She refers to herself now as “Immy” or “me”. So one common comment is “Daddy home, cuddle me!” (Actually translates to :”When Daddy gets home, he can cuddle me!”) Last night she was saying “Scary thunder me!” (Thunder is scaring me”) and to try to distract her we were asking how long till the thunder after the lightning. She started to put on a thoughtful face “hear something. What?… *screws up face like a fish, taps head with finger thinking hard* Thunder!” Aaah so cute. She also has started telling me off if I do something she doesn’t like. For example when trying to go back to sleep but clearly fidgeting, I said “I love you” and she opened her eyes and sternly said “NO I LOVE YOU me!” I laughed and asked if that was because she was trying to go to sleep “YES!” (Glare). Okay!
She can count to 10, but counting things is still pretty haphazard. She CAN count things, but she’s very creative about it too LOL.
Oh and she had her first haircut… from me LOL.
CRAP! I lost a whole bunch of stuff I typed about Kira
. How upsetting. I’ll try to remember it.

Kira! Well, it’s hard to really type this stuff. As I’ve said before, once they pass the toddler phase the milestones are harder to pinpoint. Reading is an obvious one and her reading is amazing now, though of course she still stumbles over bigger words like “fabulous”.
She is really getting the addition thing, telling me “2+2=4″. Indeed it is! She is also drawing people with bodies (and bellybuttons, can’t forget them!) I’ve found a few apple trees around too so it seems she’s branching out from dogs.
She is fascinated by gravity, why the earth spins, why the sun sets, and the moon etc. We’ve had a few interesting conversations about such things. She also wanted a watch a program on war the other day but when it came up with a warning I vetoed it… she asked why so I briefly explained about war.
She likes tying knots, which is fun when I have to undo them. She read the Playschool clock the other day which I thought was pretty cool. She likes exploring cause and effect, talking it through “if I do x, y will happen!” Sometimes the things make sense, sometimes they don’t, not to me anyway!
Lots of dress ups and imaginative games with her sister. They can be really lovely together! I’m also loving seeing her physicality, how she is doing things she couldn’t do when she was 4. It’s a bit hard for her because her friends can often do things she can’t as she’s just a little too short or not quite as strong, but when she gets it in her own time it’s beautiful to watch.
that’s it for now…