Quiet Life

Not too much going on... Eloise has acquired some tap shoes from Claire at Nicole's work and various other things such as (curse) a Fairy Palace and (curse) "a cottage that is a house that is cosy" toy which are keeping her occupied.

We are having to ration her YouTube use as she is well on-target for busting our 12GB bandwidth for the month. So we are introducing her to computer games instead.

Other than that, the weather's been nice and we have been out walking in various forests a lot. There are lots of trees that have been blown over in storms so it is a bit of a challenge getting around in the woods, with paths blocked and so on, but we're seeing lots of spiders which Eloise likes.

Yesterday my shoelace came undone and Eloise decided she wanted to do it up. So we sat down whilst she performed this feat whilst Matilda rustled around in the bushes. I jumped nearly a mile when a foot-long dragon-lizard came out of the bushes and ran across Eloise's legs and into another bush with the dog in hot pursuit. Eloise didn't bat an eyelid. She thought it hilarious.

Other than that it's back to nursery and trying to keep up with the swimming.

She's going through some interesting if frustrating changes at the moment, becoming quite shy and almost scared of certain people and not as naively friendly towards everybody as she used to be. She doesn't like certain people to look at her and sometimes decides that she doesn't want to be someone's friend. I'm thinking that this is all mental development around socialisation and the seperation of her as a conceptual individual from "people" at large. She's certainly had a couple of instances of seperation anxiety at nursery which is quite unusual.

Still at least she isn't shouting at us so much....