19 months

For the first time in her life Alina was healthy for 2months running. I wrote this because she caught a cold just the other day :0(. I kept thinking, one more week, and then another and another. We were just saying that we couldn't believe how well she looks and how much she's developed.
Alina's extremely active, she loves to run around and push things such as chairs or ride on toys and is becoming more and more adventurous on playgrounds. We bought her a coupe car which she truly enjoys and she's recently learnt how to push herself backwards. Funnily enough, everything kids do seems to start by going backwards- it was the same with crawling.
Alina's continuing to develop her verbal skills, she's learning how to count, she knows several colours by now and is making little sentences. What really amazes us is that she's doing role playing already and is beginning to invent songs with her favourite toys as the main characters. She especially likes it when we insert her name in nursery rhymes and asks us to repeat it over and over again.
It's actually funny how self centered toddlers are. We went shopping yesterday and she saw herself in a mirror and started spinning around and was laughing the whole time. It's a shame I didn't have a camera with me. Talking about cameras though, it's very difficult to record her these days because she just wants to look at "Anina" in the viewfinder.
We've recently taken Alina swimming. It's a bit hard because there is only one pool and it's indoors and it's a big cold. But she loves it! She might be blue and shivering and still wants to be in the water and amazingly has no fear of deep water.
A few weeks ago we went to the homeopathic hospital and Alina's now on homeopathic medicine as well. We just hope that everything we are giving her this summer will help her have an easier winter.
It's been a great summer so far. We hope that Alina continues to stay fit and healthy and that the weather remains that same :0).
Hugs to everyone.
The Houchins



Mummy's little cat

One day I'll be a Formula 1 driver

I love feeding the guinea pigs

Look at me...

At the teddy bear's picnic

Teddy bear hug

Hello Bambi!

Mhh...I can even write on my tummy

Wow, look at my masterpiece

Daddy's little farm girl

Vroom....

Daddy's so much fun!

Having a laugh with granny