Azra is getting very close to her 2nd birthday, just one more month! Now adays she is spending alot of time outside in the sun, in the park or with the flowers as the photo shows, she is trying to blow the dandelions but actually just gets all the bits over her mouth. In the second photo in one of the parks we go to there is a dog pen and she loves nothing more than to go into that pen and pretend she is a dog, if there are dogs there than she spends all of her time just trying to talk to them rather than playing in the playground! Developmentally how is she doing? Let's see, linguistically she is still just saying words, words as varied from 'itchy' to 'chicken' and in Turkish she says acayim mi? alot- shall I open it. No stringing words togther yet. Physically she is a little monkey, climbing up chains in the park or going over the top of the monkey bars, holding on to the sides, she is far above the kids her age at the park, but that is more to do with Turkish parents than with Azra as they tend to overprotect rather than let their kids free. They always have plenty to say to me! She kisses alot. That is me and her father and her nanny but also other kids at the park, it is very cute! She has all her teeth but the very back ones. In terms of food she eats no fruit unless the apple has been cooked and we can maybe sneak some grated kiwi or something into it or she east dried fruit. Vegetables...well she will eat soups and things but only really peas, carrots or potatoes but also raw mushrooms. Her favourites are still fish, chicken or turkey or bread, bulgur or rice. She loves her food though. Apparently that is very cancer sign or so says my friend. She has the biggest belly of all her friends in the park! Now though she has learnt to touch and point to ours! Fair enough I guess, even if demoralising! She also loves putting our shoes on. I guess this is normal, her friend ali put on a show for her while wearing his mother's shoes a few months ago. I also remember a photo of me doing the same. Nowadays she is on her artistic phase, drawing over everything, in the hope of preventing that I put paper on the walls but it doesn't entirely prevent her from drawing elsewhere! She is great fun, laughing all the time, at us, at herself, crying, playing....