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My child is but 14 months old and she is already a book-nerd. To be fair, there wasn't much hope for her, but I am seriously going to have to introduce compulsory playtime or we will spend all day reading books. Sometimes the same book, four or five times over. At the moment it is Bear Flies High (Doo be do, Doo be do, Doo be Doodily do) and Where the Wild Things Are (or aira-ile-nggssarr, as Sally calls it). The Bad-Tempered Ladybird is also in favour but I think that's because Sam does the 'Hey you, want to fight?' voice so well.

Sally's started filling in the gaps in One Fish Two Fish now as well. I just read 'one - , two - , red - , blue - ' and and she says 'fish' for me! She also does 'this one has a little (st)ar' and 'the fat one has a yellow - hat-'.

We were playing with the CBeebies website today (I don't do it terribly often because I have no idea how good it is for little eyes to stare at computer screens)and went to the Timmy Time games. There's a little 'match the sound to the animal' game which we looked at a couple of days ago for the first time. On the first screen is a picture of Timmy and Yabba. You get a couple of speech bubbles on the right hand side with their sounds and when you hover over them they play the noise. Anyway, straight away Sally pointed at Timmy and said 'baaa'. So I played the sound and she pointed at him. Score one for Sally. Then I played the quack quack noise for Yabba and she pointed at Yabba (I was quite excited by the accurate pointing too) and said 'duck'. Bing! Big green tick once more. The next page has four animals, so is more difficult. I played her Mee-you and she pointed at Mittens the cat, then Ruff ruff and she pointed at Ruffy the dog. When I played her oink oink she couldn't point at Paxton but she did say 'ig, ig'. The last page she couldn't do at all, mainly because it consists of all the minor characters like Finlay and Apricot (and after all, who knows what noise a hedgehog makes?) but after that, on the close page with the whole nursery in the photo, she pointed at Osbourne and Otus and said 'owls' and then at Yabba and said 'duck', and then at Timmy and said 'Baa'.
It was really good to seeing her thinking and problem solving. And good to see her doing something other than reading!