Hi, Abi here! It's almost a year since my last entry here in Wednesday's blog, so about time for another.
As you can imagine, I've developed tonnes since last time. A major event was starting kindergarden last April. I love it there and have made many great friends. The staff there are wonderful too. Fortunately two of my best friends from the barselgroup, Ilayda and Markus, were in my unit when I joined. A few weeks ago I moved up a unit, and the transiton has been totally hassle-free. It will be even better when my friends from my old unit start there I guess. Lots of mornings just after getting out of bed, my mum lifts me up so I can see the group photo of everyone and I point at everyone and say their name, plus I know who owns every single lunch box!
Verbally I'm just getting better and better. At my 2 year check-up in January, I was given a language test and the teacher said I'm ahead of monolingual 2 year olds, which is quite impressive for a bilingual kid like me. I sometimes put 5 words together in a sentence. I repeat a lot of what the grown-ups say, I'm like a parrot according to my teachers in kindergarden.
My 2nd birthday went by and seemed to last for several days because gifts kept turning up . I had a party with several of my friends where we had pizza, cake and other sweets, and I still, to date, keep singing the "Happy birthday to you" song, both in Norwegian and English. I will soon ask mummy to publish some photos from my birthday.
I'm still quite different from my sister. I still don't obey mummy and daddy much, allthough I've become better than before. Whenever I'm out of mummy and daddy's sight, and I've been quiet for a while, they get worried, because this usually means I'm up to something "evil", like tearing all the wet tissues out of their packet, or stuffing toilet tissue down the toilet, or worse: spreading food from the kitchen cabinets, including chilies and spices, all over the floor. Wedneday does her best to stop me and frantically tries telling mummy and daddy, so that helps them I guess. I've also gone from being the easiest child in the world to put to bed (in fact, I used to cling on to my cot and say "sove" (sleep)), to being pretty hopeless. Sometimes mummy or daddy will need to lie next to me for ages until I'm asleep, and sometimes they just give up and let me stay up way later than I'm supposed to.
I'm a text-book 2 year old. In the last month I've started insisting on managing most things on my own, allthough my abilites to do so are very much lacking, and so consequently I get very frustrated, The "terrible two's" behaviour has set in, and I will sometimes lie on the floor screaming like there's no tomorrow if I don't get my way. I still love singing and dancing, and I keep drawing scribbles, but using plenty of colours. I still love my food and I eat solid portions. Height-wise I'm below average and weight-wise I'm above, but thats's nothing to worry about luckily.
This winter has been slightly tough since I managed to get hives (elveblest in Norwegian ), flu and an ear infection, all over the course of two weeks, so I kept having to turn up at the doctor's office. I'm so rarely sick though, so I shouldn't complain.
I still go to swimming classes with Wednesday once a week, but I'm currently in a phase where I'm much more scared. Wednesday was like that too but got over it, so I'm sure it's just a phase.
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