Letters

Every morning on this trip I have woken up to the little voice of Princess and her chuckles as she plays in her parents room.  Then I hear the question that inevitably comes; 'Bubuts? Yeah?'.  These are the words to ask for breakfast.

Then the door opens and she sees me and I get a 'Hiya', 'Bubuts', 'Yeah?' and 'Slippers'.  Then the troughing begins.  For a 1 and a half year old she has a good appetite.  Take today for example.  She had 'Pumpets' (Crumpets), Cheese, 'Nana' (Banana) and 'Yot Yots' (Yoghurts).  But then the Carters enjoy food, so it's no surprise that she does too.  My fondest memory of Daddy Carter will always be a dinner, where he told me with big eyes and a big smile, that the Fritata Mummy Carter had prepared was made with 6 eggs and 6 sausages (And Daddy Carter if you are reading this, no you will never live that down!)

The game that has become mine and Princess' is to do with letters.  The letters come in a jar and for some reason the big blue eyes are always in my direction to open the jar.

The game between us is not really about learning the letters of the alphabet, but in actual fact learning about colours.  We managed to learn to pick out the pink letters, but that was it.

It took me a couple of days to realise that she only got the game because Mummy Carter had got a few of the pink ones in her hand.  I put a few green ones in a pot and she started to put all the green ones in.  But that's as far as we got.  We reached the attention span limit and all the letters were on the floor again.

For the entire trip we have been trying to get Princess to say my name.  The first name was 'Tizzer', the name of the other godparent, which would get too confusing if we were both in the same room.  The next name was 'Aisha'.  Close but I think the one we have settled on is Nimmie (and said in a sort of Brummy accent).  I was getting ready to go out and I hear a little voice shout out 'Nimmie where are wou?'.  So cute.