Some of Audrey's favourite things at 1 year old. There are a lot more than there were 6 months ago - she's becoming a little person right in front of our eyes and I am so excited to get to know more about her every day.
Foods:
She loves peas and sweetcorn more than anything, and will eat a whole bowl full one after another in her little pinching fingers like they were sweeties. Give her anything with peas and sweetcorn and she will painstakingly pick them out and eat them first.
For breakfast we usually have porridge or yoghurt with oats in, with some fruit. She's not so keen on fruit, but will tolerate blueberries and quite likes apple slices, although they're tricky with no teeth (yep, still none!). She also loves scrambled egg on toast.
She snacks on more peas and sweetcorn, also slices of cucumber or apple, and rice or oat cakes.
She only eats pasta with home made bolognese sauce, otherwise she throws it from the high chair. She likes shepherd's pie, and anything with either eggs or bread. She prefers her veggies boiled rather than roasted. She definitely does NOT like tuna, and in sandwiches her favourite is chicken or cheese salad with brown bread, and her favourite bit is the crusts.
She drinks water from a cup, or from my water bottle if we're out and about. She doesn't drink other stuff, although I've let her have little sips of fruit juice if I've been having it.
Toys:
She loves her new birthday toys - the scramble bug, the octopus, the activity cube. She loves bath toys, we have all these floating fish and bath books and stuff that attaches to the sides of the bath. She really DOESN'T like the duck that attaches to the side of the bath and showers water when you press a button. She points and says "DUH!" for duck and "DAH DAH DAH!" for quack quack quack, but cries if she gets too close to it.
She adores any toy that looks like an animal. Today in playgroup she relentlessly pursued a giant cuddly red panda toy as it was carried about by other children, and when it was finally free she opened her arms wide and fell on it with a HUGE cuddle and a big grin. She loves the toy lions and tigers at baby sensory and carries them around proudly showing them to anyone she meets.
She still loves Lamby, but mostly she loves when I bite him and growl like a lion, shaking him from side to side.
When we're out and about, nothing distracts her like keys. Either my keyring or the toy one she has that makes fun noises when you press the buttons.
People:
Audrey loves her family and friends, but just lights up when she sees certain people - her Aunty Katy, our friends Ros, Alasdair and Michael, Kat, her Nana B, and I imagine it will be the same with our friend Cori who is visiting this week. Audrey hasn't seen her for a while, but adored her the last time she visited and points every day at the cross stitch alphabet Cori made her that we hung on the nursery wall.
Her little friends Daisy, Mia and Kitty are also favourites, and Audrey smiles at them and even gave Daisy a hug the last time she saw her. Sooooo adorable.
Animals:
She loves animals. My goodness. She's definitely inherited that from me! She loves cats, and it remains the word she says most often after Dada and Mama. She also loves dogs, and will point at them and chase them and toddle after them as long as you let her. She's more likely to wave hi and goodbye at a passing dog than at her friends!
I often take her in to the shelter with me where she tries to cuddle the bunnies and guinea pigs. She stretches her arms out at them like she does to grownups when she wants to be picked up and hugged. She's fascinated by the rats and hamsters and gerbils. And she's AMAZED by fish.
Books:
Little girl is a book lover for sure! Some of our best, most focused time together is when she sits on my knee and we look at some books together. We point at the pictures. "Dog!" I say and she giggles and points and points.
She loves any book with animal pictures, especially the photograph pictures. She likes turning the pages all by herself, and understands if you ask her to turn the next page.
We go to the library each week and choose three or four new books to borrow. We're currently reading Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, a book about tractors and farm animals, a book about fire engines, and a book of first words with textured bits to touch.
Other things she loves:
Audrey loves walking by herself without any help. Which has my heart in my throat a lot of the time when we're out walking (I've taken to surreptitiously holding on to the hood of her coat. I think some toddler reins might be in our near future.) She discovered her own shadow on a walk recently and was amazed, shaking her arms around to make it dance and laughing so much.
She loves working things out for herself, and I'm always trying to be patient with her and let her have the time and space to do things her own way. It might not be the quickest or most thorough or easy way. But she'll find that out for herself without my interference, and she'll learn a lot along the way.
She loves bubbles, but just to watch, not to touch. She loves bath time, but only if I get in the bath too. She loved Baby Sensory class, which she graduated from this week. She hugged the teacher goodbye all by herself.
She likes Charlie and Lola and the Wiggles, but loves Daft Punk videos on youtube best of all.
She loves photographs and mirrors, footballs and telephones. She loves things that match, like shoes and socks and identical hair clips, and will search for them and carry them around one in each hand. She loves dinosaurs and trees and the moment Ian's key turns in the door when he comes home from work.
And oh, we love her so much.
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