Growing up

Zoë is really growing up fast. She'll be 18 months old in a week or so and already she amazes me with her talking, her curiosity and her insatiable desire to learn - everything, as fast as she can!

Zoë's attention span is very short, so I guess she has to do a lot of different things at once, otherwise she'd get bored. But I'm surprised how much she manages to absorb - even whilst she's doing something else. She'll watch TV, be 'reading' a book, chase the cat, fart, pee, pooh, chat, point out the window at the birds (or more likely, the rain) all in the space of a minute - and somehow manage to tell me which of the Fimbles is on TV at that moment, what they're doing, etc, etc.

Whilst all this is going on, she's improving her vocabulary by around 7 words per day, learning to count, walking, running, trying new foods and tastes - and generally growing up fast. This, of course, makes it very difficult being a dad as I'm forgetting at least 7 words (or more) a day!