Alina: our CDH story: 2 1/2 years old

Monday, 11 July 2011

2 1/2 years old

I'm a bit late updating the blog this time around as we're busy, busy doing lots and lots of toddler things. Despite our expectations, Alina's a very active child. She's always on the run. Literally, running- and these days climbing- is her favourite thing to do. We were told that she will never run a marathon. I don't believe that! She's got so much energy and stamina that by the end of the day we are the ones tired, not her :0).
She's moved up a class, at nursery, from Wagtails to Robins. It suits her very well. The kids are older, are as verbally advanced as she is and there are lots of fun activities. When I picker her up today they were all dancing on, funnily enough, a Romanian song" Nu ma, nu ma vrei". They were so cute, all of them, in their summer outfits and their little hats on. It's a shame I didn't have my camera with me.
A couple of weeks ago we went to visit John & Suzanne, Alex's parents to celebrate John's birthday. Alina got to ride Teddy for the first time, which she thoroughly enjoyed. The following day, her cousin Ellie, who is a year older, with her parents joined us and the two of them had lots of fun together.
Alina's developing very well. Healthwise, she's only had a little cold this past month which went away by itself. I was a bit weary of taking her swimming as our local pool is not that warm, but she doesn't seem to mind. As a matter of fact, she loves it so we've made it a weekly activity. Her language is still amazing. Her sentence construction is that of a 4 year old and funnily enough, now she is beginning to use it to get her own way. This morning she asked to watch telly and I said no. Her reply was: "but daddy said I can watch telly". I felt like laughing, Alex was at work and she hadn't seen him at all this morning. Cheeky little one! :0).
She's also started reading. She can read most of the letters of the alphabet and is trying to read full words. Most of the time she'll read the letters and make up her own word like : "C" "A" "R".....TOM. It's really funny but also amazing that she's showing an interest in it. The first time I caugh her in bed trying to read a story from one of her baby books. With her interest in reading she's also showing an interest in writing. Instead of doodling she is actually beginning to make proper lines- looks a bit like my handwriting actually :0).
We love spending time with her. She's such a great little girl, with a very good sense of humour and always up to some mischief. She doesn't like being told what to do- just like her mom- and has a very strong sense of independence- just like hear dad. She's great to be with if you take the time to explain things to her and loves to learn about new things. She loves shopping- just like her mom, running, going to the playground,dancing, singing and playing with daddy, who is her "best friend".She has a lot of friends and is very sociable.
What can I say, she's just an amazing little girl.

Lots of hugs,