Nursery update

2008 wasn't a great year for us, and a bitter disappointment in December, made it worse. We tried to cheer up by visiting friends and meeting family over the Christmas weekend. And Prashanth was working on New Year's eve, so me and Aditi rested at home. There's been lots of things happening with the little girl at home. She's been talking in small sentences and imitating what we say and do. She's trying to string a few words together and is aiming to make proper sentences.
At the nursery, she's moving from the baby room to the toddler room where she'll meet many two to five year olds, and to make the transition easy, the staff have been taking her to the toddler room every now and then to make her familiar with the surroundings. She's been enjoying herself there and is learning to sing new rhymes everyday. Action rhymes are still her favorite and new dance moves are always tried out. Every evening we are treated to a little performance by the little girl, dancing and singing all by herself, sometimes just dancing to the music on the telly.
Aditi loves shopping and picks up anything that she sets her eyes on and expects to be bought. Her love for new shoes and dresses, even at this age is really alarming. She would happily wear the new dress and shoes even before we deposit the shopping bags on the floor. Her present craze is a new knee high boot, which is being worn even at sleep-time!! At supermarkets, she walks nad randomly picks up toys and quitely places it in the shopping trolley. Of course, we scan for her items and promptly remove them before we hit the cash counter. And one day while we were shopping, I noticed a new toy while we were waiting in the queue. I assumed Prashanth might have picked it up, but turned out that Aditi had herself chosen the toy.
This one loves her books. Her favorite is the farm book - My first farm, where she points out and indicates the various animals and her babies, fruits and vegetables. This also lists the various dairy farm products and different types of tractors and so on. Counting has taken on a new turn. Previously she would count up and down the steps randomly from one to ten, starting at four and finishing at eight. She's improved now and counts in an orderly fashion.
While on the bus, she loves to point to other buses and cars on the road and draw my attention to it. A few weeks to go for her second birthday and we plan to have a prty at her nursery and spend the day at Weston Park .
Will try to be more regular this year with updating my blog.