Erin the "creator"

Erin is very pleased to be out of nursery and home with me again. We have a lot of fun in the mornings once we drop Owen off at school. She loves being able to play with the toys in his class for a few minutes before we say goodbye and head off. She has also been accepted into Nursery at Parkhouse English School after the summer. I am sure that she will be more than ready to get down to some serious play with her classmates some of which I already know. I have requested that she be in Mrs. Bexon's class as Owen was with her and he still he misses her, Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Baker.

Our daily routine: The deal is that when we are at home the dishwasher has to be unloaded and repacked and the washing loaded and hung first before anything else happens. If this is not done then we live in a perpetual state of chaos. Otherwise it is just "our time". Our days are filled with structured playdates at other peoples compounds, play dough, drawing, painting, music time, creative kitchen time, making lunch together before we fetch Owen, grocery shopping and the odd errand.

Potty training is very successful for no.1 but I do insist on her wearing a nappy on school runs as the traffic is unpredictable and one never knows when one has to wait on the motorway for an extended period. She dislikes this but I have no other choice at this stage of the training.

She has a mind of her own and is sharp as a tack often with a hidden meaning behind her questions. Her talking has come along well and she can form a sentence with up to 10 words sometimes. She counts to 13, knows all her shapes but colours according to Erin are all pink!