Jane-isms

Jane has recently become obsessed with playing hide-and-seek. She will put anything out of view and then query 'Where go? Where go?' with a finely accomplished look of astonishment. One time she pulled her sleeves down and then asked me, 'Where thumb? Where thumb?' And then she goes off into fits of giggles at her own cleverness.

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Today when we were shopping, Jane was sitting in the front of the cart while I pushed it. Unless occupied with a cookie, she usually does not like to sit still, and sure enough, before long she was asking me 'Up! Up!' I told her not now, maybe later. After a moment she reached her arms out and said, 'Mama! Hug!' I could see where this was going, but it was so cute that I couldn't resist. And when I leaned forward, she put her arms around my neck and begged again, 'Up! Up!' Clever, that one.

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The wallpaper in the bathroom is decorated with letters, and for the last few nights Michael has pointed out a few of them to Jane as he brushes her teeth. I thought nothing of this until a couple of days ago, when Jane was 'reading' her book, The Runaway Bunny. Suddenly she got very excited and started exclaiming, 'B! B!' Sure enough, she had spotted the B on the cover. She recognised the As too. We have taught her up to J, and only since then did I learn that we are supposed to start with lower case letters rather than capital letters. Oh, well. At this rate, she'll learn them both before long.