Last week

Last week was a long one as Bluet's daycare was closed because of spring break (american for half term). So we took turns in watching Bluet during the day. Here are some snapshots of the week.

The love of numbers continues. One day last week we went into Bluet's room and found all the numbers lined up like this on the window sill. One of her favourite activities is to go to the lift and press the button for our floor - she knows that it is a three, so she'll enter the lift at speed, look up and say 'press three?', which is the correct thing to do the 50% of the time we are heading up.

Next, here are some photos of Bluet enjoying the Japanese garden in the park near our house. Whilst the Japanese garden is nice and supposed to be relaxing, the rules instructing you to stick to the paths do not fit with Bluet's interpretation of zen.

And of course, Bluet still loves her letters. So Emily bought her this shirt. She also still loves the mirror (although she has realized that Teulb is just Bluet, backwards.

Spot the 'sticky' on Bluet's face

We finished the week, reunited with each other and Ikea:

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Exhausted, Bluet took a 4 (four!) hour nap

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13,14

We're about to go off to the Zoo, but as Bluet is happy in her room playing, an unexpected opportunity to update the blog has arisen. Yesterday we went to the American equivalent of B&Q ('Lowes') and purchased some household items. Keeping Bluet under control as she ran around the wide-aisled shop made this the most strenuous shopping trip ever. She seemed to like the plants best, correctly identifying 'purple', 'red' and 'black' plant pots, climbing under shelves, and finally exhibiting herself for sale, viz:


 
Whilst the initial investment may look very cheap, remember there are a lot of hidden costs with a purchase like this.

Whilst in the car or riding on my shoulders, Bluet likes to practice her counting. Here she is counting to 14 (minus 11 or 12, but who needs those numbers) in the back of the car:

Numbers

Today Bluet is supposed to take her favourite toy to school to share. Her favourite toy is probably this mat filled with numbers that you may recognise from New York, but it doesn't seem right to send her to school with a giant "6" as her favourite toy. Anyway, here she is a couple of days ago interacting with her numbers. She really does love them, and will happily count up to 10(approximately correctly) or ride on your shoulders pointing out every number she sees.

New York Bye Bye

So sadly it is true, we are leaving New York for Houston. In fact, Bluet and Emily left this morning, whilst I am hanging around until the end of the month to get work finished. This means that updates to the blog may be a little sparse this month (although I hope to spend a weekend down there). But never fear, I have assembled a small collection of videos, sounds and pictures from Bluet's farewell to New York tour to post over the next few days. I will begin, however, by describing her progress with letters and numbers. Her favourite letter is B, and why not? When we were in Missouri waiting in the car by a sign that said 'beer and liquor', Bluet looked out the window and said 'I see B'. She can consistently identify the letter B wherever it is written. She is very clever. She can also consistently identify 'P' and 'O', occasionally A,C and D as well, and today she was running around saying 'ABC' as if it were all one word. Her favourite number is 6, and on occasion she can also pick 8 out of a line up. Emily's sister gave Bluet one of those magnetic drawing boards for Christmas. On that we like to draw the letters (or numbers) and tell Bluet what they are. Bluet then erases the number (or letter) and says 'Bye Bye, Six' or 'Six, Bye Bye'. It is very cute.