Writing

It is interesting how skills and interests develop, and frightening how fast they do. Lorelei is into all sorts of things these days, and one of them is writing. She has a little notebook and writing means just doodling along, with a pen that is, because otherwise it would be coloring, I think I told you about this before. The thing is that before she would need help getting all the stuff, opening the pen, opening the notebook, holding the pen, everything. Now though, she just grabs everything, sits down and starts to write, color, draw, whatever it is that she wants to do.

Also, the language that goes with it is developing unbelievably fast, and in two languages. I think I told you before that language is not really her strong suit, not like Tobias anyway, but she is catching on man! She has gotten used to addressing me in Dutch and Lisa (and Tobias, most of the time anyway) in English. She is making sentences of a couple of words with a fairly decent sense of grammar. She is referring to herself as “I”, although she will also still speak of herself in the third person. Most of her sounds are fairly decent, the most difficult one for her appears to be “K”, which sounds like “T”, which makes for funny sounding words, for example, when she is playing with “Hello Kitty” . Another funny thing is that she is experiencing with sounds. She makes up words and then cracks up about them. Needless to say she is still laughing a lot and as happy as she has always been.

It is wonderful to witness all these developments, I just wish I could slow it down, or hold on to things a bit longer, or something…. (But the again, it probably still would not be long enough…).