Oh Nixie makes me laugh so hard some days.
Just the other day I was trying to find Simon so I called out a couple of times "Simon, Simon", next thing I hear Nixie is yelling at the top of her voice "Simon, Simon, Simon" and the more I laughed the louder and more extravagant her voice became. It was so cute to hear her calling her daddy by his name. Then just last night while I had Nixie sitting on the bench with me while I made her dinner, I called out "Hun...?" to only have a little voice next to me yell out "Simon, Simon, Simon"
Its very funny to have her mimic at times. We will be talking away in the car to have her respond to us or copy us with what we have just said. I laughed to Simon and said that she certainly has no trouble with her language to hear her say "no problem with language". Its quite extraordinary to hear her say such large words with no effort...
I did teach Nixie sign language when she was a baby. I started when she was only 3 months old knowing full well I wouldn't get any signs back for some time. I figured it was only going to help me with routine if I started quickly. I think Nixie was 9 months or so when she did her first sign to me and it was 'eat' I think - I'll have to check back in her baby memories book to be sure. I remember being so excited that she was signing to me and I know it helped a lot with her communication, helping to prevent tantrums and crying and maybe it has also helped with her language as well. So after 'eat' became a norm and the others started to flow very easily. She learnt words such as; eat, drink, more, please, thank you, up, down, swim, ball, book, sleep and many more. As she started talking she slowly dropped the signing as it was no longer necessary. Although she does still (at nearly 2) sign for 'drink' and 'more' if she really wants those two ;). I will definately be doing the same with the next bub as I feel it was so beneficial.
I should give Nixie a little more credit with things she says too. About a week ago she woke in the night crying. I went in and gave her a cuddle and tried to put her back in to her cot (porta cot, as we are travelling) but she 'chucked a spack' and would not go in. I thought her teeth must be hurting her as she is getting her 2 year old molars. So I asked her what was hurting, thinking she would point to her mouth and say her mouth. But she pointed to her bed and said bed hurts... I checked her blanket quickly thinking maybe she had a prickle or something in the blanket that was spiking her but found nothing so I thought she was just trying to work out what to say to keep from being put back to bed. I ended up laying in the spare bed with her for the remainder of the night. The next night Simon went in to her 30min or so after we had put her to bed and she was crying and saying the same thing "Bed hurts" thankfully Simon thought to check the bed properly and found that the flooring of the porta cot was all kinked up - poor kid - it would have been terribly uncomfortable and I felt bad that I had not given her more notice, thinking she was just being sneaky... I should know better than that knowing what she is like. Now she hops into bed and says "Daddy fix it" and happily goes off to bed :)
I'll have to try and get a video of Nixie singing "twinkle twinkle" it is so sweet. She is also quite keen on "I'm a little tea pot" doing all the actions and that odd nursery rhyme "this old man" She loves having me sing these to her and always wants "Jesus loves Nixie" before she goes to bed - she even joins in on this one a little at times.
We have spent a lot of time together as a family over this long weekend and it has been so lovely as Simon has been doing long hours and its wonderful to have more time together.
Plus it is so nice to have some help with Nixie during the day at times. I've been feeling quite tired and drained this last week of my pregnancy. I'm not sure why. Its probably a good thing that I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to get a referral for our 20 week scan. 20 weeks - finally!!!!!!!!!!! I can not believe we are only just hitting the half way mark. I feel like it should surely be 3/4 of the way through. I'm sitting here with quite a noticeable baby bump now - I'm sure it doesn't just look like I've eaten too much haha.
Maybe I'll get around to taking some bump pics soon.
xxoo
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