being a dad

Zoë seems to develop in someway everyday now. She changes so fast it's hard to keep up.

Numbers

No problem! She counts everything, even how many steps she's taking when she's walking on the street.- though of couse she has to start from the beginning again once she reaches 20 since that's as far as she knows.



Letters

A, B, C, D, EFGHIJKLXYZ!!! Yeah. We have some bricks with letters and pictures on that a friend from work - Christine - gave us. The letters appear on the bricks when they go in hot water so, if we have a bath, Zoë tells me the letters and what the picture is. She knows about half her alphabet. She does have a few problem letters but they're all 'Bee'. If they were 'Buh' I'd be happier but Nino doesn't really know the phonetic alphabet yet so I guess she's told Zoë 'Ay, Bee, Cee' instead of 'Ah, Buh, Cuh'. However, she's learning so I guess Zoë will learn faster when Nino's got them all.

Toys - They seem like they're part of Zoë's family now. It's great to see her interacting with them all, having tea, putting them in bed, lining them up in the garden to watch her and Mummy gardening now that the weather is good - or making them swim in her sand and water pit.

Books - Read, identify all the things in the pictures on the page, do it again, and again, get another book, and another. It's a good job Nino's favourite shop is the charity shop in Uppermill as they have lots of books for Zoë.