New words, new bed

[ailbhe]

Linnea had been mimicing me saying "Now," for a few days. Today she used it in context.

She finished her morning feed and got out of bed while I lay there croaking (I have a pending and impending cold). She toddled over to the bookcase, selected a book (Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, as it happens) and climbed back onto the bed.

She sat down, laid the book on her lap, said "Now!" in a satisfied way, and started to read.

She is also proficient in the use of the word "Wassat?" although I deplore her glo'al stop.

I also went to John Lewis accompanied by a friend to buy Linnea a bed. The one we got does not appear to be on the John Lewis website, but it's a wooden-framed single bed with a matching "cabin" bed, and the two can be put together to make a bunk bed. So we're sorted for beds for the forseeable future. I chose a good child's mattress after checking a few and listening carefully to the sales-guy's explanation of why small children shouldn't use an adult's very firm mattress (it made a lot of sense and tied in to what I know of cot mattress design) and then I chose a winter duvet for myself and Rob and a light duvet for Linnea and single bedding for Linnea including waterproof mattress protectors and ooph.

My friend and I had a lovely lunch and met some other friends and got invited to drop in for coffee and also dropped in on Becky in the games shop and stuff like that.

And - wonder of wonders - Linnea napped for 40 minutes, ending at 15:10. And she can open the front door now.

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[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

And she can open the front door now.

Uh-oh...

Jack's started putting words together. He came over to me and - pointing - said Boonina. I pondered, and looked where he'd pointed. It was his book of emergency vehicles. Book-NeeNar. I laughed with glee.

[ahruman.livejournal.com]

But can she unlock it?