See you, Mummy

It's been a really nice day. We were with the boys again, but they've done very well today. We had a nice play, everyone ate a huge breakfast and we headed to Montessori. Katie and H ran straight to the water activities - the water tray, and the water painting. Katie was soaked in less than half a minute!

We then went back with friends from Montessori to have lunch and a play. Katie fell asleep on the way so slept for an hour in Heidi's cot. Aiden fell asleep too and slept for an hour too. Heidi and Harrison ate their lunch and H ate so much, and things he wouldnt normally eat. Its funny how they always do that! Katie & Aiden ate nicely too when they got up, then all the children played for ages. Katie loved Heidi's gorgeous kitchen, and "cooked" every item individually in the little oven. She also loved Heidi's dressing table (here blipped!) All the bigger children played in clippycloppy dressing up shoes. They were twice as big as Katie's feet! She looked wonderful in the "clapclap shoes" as she called them.

When we got back from Heidi's, I took the children into the garden. Katie decided to go into the deflated paddling pool, with all her clothes on (it only had about 2 inches of water in it!) and thought that was hilarious. They spent a long time gathering the pebbles from round the decking and putting them into watering cans. All in all, a wonderful day!

Katie at 21months
She:
*sings the hokey cokey, 3 three little Monkeys, seesaw marjory daw and Zoom Zoom
*has 10 teeth
*routinely sleeps through if it's been a "normal" day
*counts to ten, although 4 and 7 are not popular
*takes pluckduck, lala, tinkywinky, doodles, baby and TWO monkeys to bed
*says "cockadoodledoo" - very adorably!
*has lots of new sentences and words including postman pat, naughty, cold, umbrella, boing, upstairs, rascal, heidi, montessori, gymnastics, "dropped it", "my have it", "katie hands sticky", "go our house", "where's x/y/z gone", "got it x/y/z"

Likes:
*the shower
*balamory
*wearing her sandals
*being barefoot/preferrably totally starkers
*puzzles
*sorting her blocks by colour and shape
*peppa pig, but not the television show
*Rascal the dog
*that summer means lots and lots and lots of water play

Dislikes:
*going to soft play before gymnastics
*mint ice cream
*mince
*the zingzillas (wise child, they're creepy)

Firsts:
*haircut
*happy bedtime for Grandad
*ate and spat out her own bogeys
*strawberry picking
*fancy dress party
*trip to a zoo