It's been a busy couple of months in our house and I realised that its almost a month since I was last here! I did a quick scan of photos from the past month and this is what I can sum up. Its all about counting and writing at the moment.
Even the pastry brush is not immune from being counted. The writing is coming along really well and EV has taken it upon herself to write her whole name by copying it. She is still getting the letters in the wrong order or back to front but I understand that this is part of the development of writing. Some kids even mirror write (which I haven't seen EV do). Some days I will see she has written her name backwards in the morning and in the afternoon she has written it the right way round.
Now she comes home from school with cards and letters she had made for people. The other day she wrote a letter to our friend James, which was her just her name in the middle of the page. She said it was so he would know her name when she went to visit him. Seeing EV writing had taken me back to my earliest memory as a child when I was about 3, I was writing in an old appointment diary of my dad's. Its such a vivid memory for me, I can see the coloured felt pens and I remember really thinking that I was writing important things.
At the moment EV is also hugely into imaginary play which she tries to rope me and dada into at every opportunity. Last night she decided my name was Barbie and called me to a "meeting by the pool" and the night before I had to be a knight that slayed a dragon to rescue "Princess Rapunzel" from the castle. I'm sure the flies on the wall are having a good laugh at me.
