Stefan and Holly's dinner conversation the other night:
Holly: Daddy I love you.
Stefan: I love you, all the way to the ceiling.
Holly: (catching on very quickly to the idea) I love you all the way to the roof.
Stefan: I love you to the top of the trees.
Holly: I love you as high the plants.
Stefan: I love you to the top of the building.
Holly: (my favourite one) I love you as far as we can go.
Stefan: I love you as high as a helicopter.
Holly: I love you as high as a plane.
Stefan: I love you all the way to the moon.
Holly: I love you all the way to the stars.
So beautiful :)
Monday, 29 August 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
don't say good girl
We've had a lot of challenging behaviour from Holly lately. Defiance, disobedience, rudeness, etc. Just part of being nearly 3 I think. There is one odd thing that she always says though. If one of us has asked her to do something, and there's been a long battle about it, and she's finally coming close to doing it, she always says "don't say good girl". We then must agree not to say "good girl" when she does the required action, and then she'll usually do it (often after repeating her warning several more times).
We're not quite sure if that's because she knows she hasn't been a good girl, or because she doesn't like the tone in our voice when we say it, or what... but she's very adamant that she doesn't want to hear "good girl" at those times.
We're not quite sure if that's because she knows she hasn't been a good girl, or because she doesn't like the tone in our voice when we say it, or what... but she's very adamant that she doesn't want to hear "good girl" at those times.
Monday, 1 August 2011
Nanna
My mum comes to look after the kids every Thursday while I go to work. Both kids love it. They get so excited when they hear Nanna at the door in the morning, and they always have such a lovely day with her. Nanna/Mum is a real blessing to our family.
Mum always has lots of lovely things to tell me about from their day together, and last week she wrote down a few. Here they are:
I took H & Z to the Library and Holly went up to the desk and said "Excuse me Library Lady could I please do some drawing - I'd like a picture with flowers on it". So the Library Lady (LL) gave her a sheet and crayons. Then she said: "Excuse me LL but I can't see my picture of Spot up on the wall." Absolutely months ago they pinned up one of her colouring in drawings of Spot the Dog on the wall. I could see the LL not really knowing what to say and I told Holly that lots of children did drawings and everyone had to have
a turn of having their picture pinned up. She accepted this as she knows about taking turns.
She can write her own name absolutely perfectly now so when she had finished colouring in she wrote her name and went running over to the LL with her picture and said "LL - have a look at my picture and I wrote my own name". Then she saw the Other LL and went running over to also show & tell her.
Somehow I did a tiny cut on my finger which was bleeding just slightly which I commented on and Holly said "Nanna we've got bandaids - would you like one?" Then she rubbed my back and said she wanted to make it all better so that I can "pick up kids".
Mum always has lots of lovely things to tell me about from their day together, and last week she wrote down a few. Here they are:
I took H & Z to the Library and Holly went up to the desk and said "Excuse me Library Lady could I please do some drawing - I'd like a picture with flowers on it". So the Library Lady (LL) gave her a sheet and crayons. Then she said: "Excuse me LL but I can't see my picture of Spot up on the wall." Absolutely months ago they pinned up one of her colouring in drawings of Spot the Dog on the wall. I could see the LL not really knowing what to say and I told Holly that lots of children did drawings and everyone had to have
a turn of having their picture pinned up. She accepted this as she knows about taking turns.
She can write her own name absolutely perfectly now so when she had finished colouring in she wrote her name and went running over to the LL with her picture and said "LL - have a look at my picture and I wrote my own name". Then she saw the Other LL and went running over to also show & tell her.
Somehow I did a tiny cut on my finger which was bleeding just slightly which I commented on and Holly said "Nanna we've got bandaids - would you like one?" Then she rubbed my back and said she wanted to make it all better so that I can "pick up kids".
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