June-July+2014

Esther continues to grow into a beautiful caring girl. She likes to tell us about her friends at Rainbow Cottage or in our friendship circle, and loves to have play groups at home where she follows her friend around offering toys - sharing. She has also loved seeing new little babies, giving them her soft toys to play with and gently touching their hands. She also still loves pretending to be a baby and had lots of fun the other day going through a box of her old rattles etc. Esther can count to 6 confidently and to 10 in a muddle and likes to read to us from her favourite books. She has decided to let us sing Baa Baa Black Sheep and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but no other songs may be sung. After three months of non-stop Wiggles in the car, Bianca splashed out on another Wiggles CD which is also now stuck on a continuous loop. We went and saw a mini-musical of Cinderella which kept her enthralled, the era of the princess is upon us...she chose sparkly shoes (which light up when she walks) when we bought new shoes recently and holds her skirt when she walks..


 * [[image:painting nannies ppaper.jpg caption="painting wrapping paper for Nannie's birthday present"]] || [[image:ivy bday trampline.jpg caption="bouncing around on Ivy's birthday"]] ||
 * [[image:possum duty.jpg caption="ready for possum watching duty"]] || [[image:sticke inspector.jpg caption="on stick inspector duty - with favourite Thomas shirt"]] ||
 * [[image:pirate binocolors.jpg caption="being a pirate - not sure why binoculars and a stick make her a pirate, but there is lots of aaarhhhing "]] || [[image:bucket head.jpg caption="bucket on head - hilarious"]] ||
 * [[image:reuben bday.jpg caption="keeping baby boy Reuben well away from her cupcake"]] || [[image:reuben cupcake.jpg]] ||
 * [[image:jules esther zoo smiles.jpg caption="we love the zoo!"]] ||  ||

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