How has time flown by so quickly? Azra is growing up! She is no longer a baby anymore, actually it was she who became cognizant of that fact not her parents! She picks up photos of when she was smaller, or pictures in books, a babies on the street and she says 'baby, baby'! She also refuses to wear a bib and often to sit in her high chair (which is only a chair by the way which is at the same height as the table and so we all use the same table). Actually baby is one of the few words which she uses. Her active vocabulary also includes apple and doggy (although she usually just says 'how, how') and mummy and baba o
r sometimes daddy. She is much behind her friends but she is bilingual so no comparisions should be made. We arranged a playgroup a week ago- a total of 4 babies sorry children. Azra had a lot of fun. She and another baby discovered the potato and onion basket, Azra took the potatoes and onions out- first to try to eat them, and then the friend discovered the joy of trying to throw them in the basket- missing the basket but getting the window behind which meant that they still ended up in the basket, then of course Azra would get them out and throw them on the ground. They both had great belly (and Azra's belly is very large, therefore so are her belly laughs!) laughs. She is a great destroyer. You build a sandcastle or whatever at the park, she knocks it down, you build something with her blocks, she comes and pulls it apart. Y
ou draw something to encourage her to draw, she scribbles over it. Maybe that is where her creativity lies! Her independence streak shows itself still. Refusing to hold your hand outside when walking, always pushing your hand away when you try to do something for her, or give her food. I'll do it my way she says! Okay! Maybe that is the lesson that I need to learn! It seems that if I am to make any observations about her inclinations that she is musically inclined, always banging on things, dancing, singing away, and she has a great love of books, her own picture books obviously but she has an attachment to a Turkish translation of Charles Dicken's Great expectations! Interesting choice! It is a hard cover but it has only one picture in it and that is of Dickens himself. Yet she continuously gets it from the bookshelf and sits down with it on the couch and flicks through it. Her d
rawing skills are getting better, but every time we give her markers, after drawing with them she just sucks out the ink from them- they are supposedly non-toxic.....but.... This is the most amazing time so far, maybe as one of my friends says as they grow up little by little you keep on labelling that period as the best! But she is so interactive and communicative and funny. She has her own language which she chats to herself in. But she is just so funny, always doing funny things, always laughing. She loves hiding for example. But she always goes to the same place, we just play the game...'where is Azra'. One night she ran behind the curtains in the bedroom as we were putting her to bed,
but just after hiding she let out a great amount of gas! Obviously she needs to work on that one a bit more! She has an admirer at the kiosk at the park. When I take her there, she is more interested in running to the kiosk than playing on the swings etc. I let her go, she plays around the tables and chairs. But last weekend I learnt the reason for this attraction. It is a young man of around 25 who shows great interest in her! Oh Azra, are you playing around with my tables again...??? At which point she puts her head down and stares at the ground but then when he is not talking to her and she thinks he is not looking at her she stares longingly at him and if he doesn't look at her she starts making sounds for him to look at her. This is typical behaviour for her when she is obviously a
ttracted to a man...and at such a tender age...I hate to think what is going to happen later! Her eating habits have changed in that she often refuses to eat unless she is on the table! Have we been to permissive or is it normal or is it because she sees the cat there (yes I know it is shameful but our cat freely roams everywhere!).She is quite a good eater though beans, lentils, mushrooms and the obvious ones like fish, chicken, cheese etc. but I can't get her to eat fruit with the exception of apple! No mandarins or oranges - not even their juice. And she loves her fennel tea!!!
