Talents and gifts

Yay - at 16 weeks pregnant with #2 I have felt my first little kicks :)

So happy to know everything is going ok in there. I am going to book in for our next scan shortly which I am so excited about. I love this scan at this point in the pregnancy as you can see so much and it is comforting to get some idea of how your little one is going. For the first few months I wonder if I am still pregnant as so little happens externally... 

I wonder what kind of people our kids are going to be!?

Nixie is showing more and more of who she is every day and it is so much fun to see. I love to see the skills and talents she seems to have at this early stage. So far she LOVES drawing - so much. We bought a magnadoodle for her a couple of months back and this was such a good buy. Here she is at 19-20 months with her first happy face! Awesome huh :)

And here she is at 21 months with balloons!

She did these all by herself and Simon and I where blown away cause neither of us had shown her how to do this. We turned to see this 'amazing' art work done while we where busy with other things. After a little investigation we found out that Alan - Simon's dad - had drawn Nixie some balloons on her magnadoodle the week earlier and she had remembered and done her own version. Pretty cool I say! I think this may be one of her talents/gifts. We have some good artists/drawers on both sides of the family. My mum is very good at drawing/sketching (well she was when she was younger - I'm sure the gift is still there mum xx), I'm ok at times but Simon is very gifted in this area too. He did some amazing art when he was younger and has an extraordinary eye for detail. I know if given the time to work on this gift he would be even more fabulous! 

We are also noticing how Nixie analyses things quite intently - another Simon trait coming through. She seems to watch and learn quickly and remembers things that she is only told once and things I think are things she would not remember.

Nixie loves to hear me sing and I oblige her even though I know I do not have a great singing voice - but Nixie loves it so I love singing to her. I am hoping she gets a good singing voice; surely someone in our family can pass this on to her because it certainly isn't going to be either of her parents, haha

And while you're at it God - please give her some dancing genes too :) 

I love this little video of Nixie singing - its a little hard to hear what she is singing but she was singing 'Twinkle Twinkle little star'... 

My lack of singing talent used to really bother me but I have discovered an unusual freedom of singing with my daughter and I no longer let it worry me!

Be free, live free, act free and enjoy the small things!

xx