Linnea update

[ailbhe]

She plays with teddies now. She puts them in the buggy, feeds them porridge, and tucks them up into beds made of towels. (She was quite insistent about the porridge, apparently, and refused to eat her breakfast without the teddy).

She sings - usually Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.

She pretends. She pretends to drink or eat, she pretends to talk on the phone, she pretends with her teddies. It's so grown up! She's playing Mum!

She's taking nappies off again from time to time. We've moved the potty into the main part of the house, where she actually plays. She often raises her bottom from the mat so that I can slide the new nappy underneath. She also often ups and leaves if she's not interested in a new nappy. You win some, you lose some.

She says "Towl" for towel and was upset today at the pool when I used her towel for my hair; I had to take it off and give it back. I wonder when we should stop using her little corner-hood towels? They're really most useful, but I'm sure I remember a friend telling me her son had "outgrown" them. I find them very useful for myself, though, so perhaps he was an unusually large child...

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[helenprev.livejournal.com]

Felicity is pretending too. Isn't it fabulous to watch? :-D

And in our house, we use corner hooded towels until well after the second birthday!

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

Rhiannon is always running off with the kitchen towel or the teatowels to use as doll blankets.
She hasn't worn a nappy during the day for about 2 weeks now (I *will* do a journal entry later).

I stopped using the corner-hood towels a while ago, she wouldn't keep the hood over her head and the towels wouldn't stay wrapped around her. They are not very big, I can only just get all my hair wrapped up in one (maybe I just have a big head?). I switched to a towelling dressing gown with a hood. I wrap her up in it, she sits and has her after-swimming snack while I get dressed. By the time I'm done, she is 90% dry. The towelling gown is getting a little small now (size 18mths), I will see how effective her fleece dressing gown is when we go swimming tomorrow. The main disadvantage is that the gown take up more room in the swimming bag but it has reduced the tears caused by me using her towel to dry my hair. Now I can point out that I am using my towel to dry her feet.