Athalie is now 18 months old and as the days passes, she continuously adds joy, laughter and happiness into our lives. Watching her grow and interact with the world around her is simply the best thing to just sit down and do… that provided she doesn’t come over to me and say, “Up. Up. Daddy Daddy up”, and she holds your finger and walks you to where she wants to go – be it a water area, to her toys, books, etc. It really doesn’t matter. Her little hand clasping your finger transports you to her world where everything is beautiful.
We’ve been constantly amazed at her progress in her vocab. We don’t drill her and sit her down to learn words etc… but her ability to catch up on the nursery rhymes we read to her and our conversations is seriously out of the world. At around 16 months, she was completing sentences in a nursery rhymes and story books and a couple of weeks back, she completed the sentences for the entire “Sing a Song of Six Pence” which is a seriously long nursery rhyme and then she recited the entire “Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars” all by herself. It totally blew us away. All this progress that she’s making never fails to put a smile on our face, hold each other so much more closer and just be thankful for the wonderful daughter that God has so graciously given to us. It melts our heart further to hear her sing, “Daddy, Daddy, I love you” or “Mummy, Mummy, I love you”.
The other joy she brings to us is through her excitement. This can be when we come out from the bathroom and she chasses us around while we try to get dress, when we go for a holiday and she literally just run around the hotel room screaming for joy, her excitement when we bring her to the pool/seaside, how she enjoys her food and feed herself or when she dances and sings. All of these just bring about so much joy to the both of us and makes us just want to spend all our time with her. These precious moments not only alleviates all our worries but also brings the family closer together and appreciate the love and company we have in each other.
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