Bonjour,
I am all better from my cold except for a little bit of a runny nose still, but thats a lot better than having your whole head feeling like it is going to blow up, because that is how I felt. Now that I am back to feeling great again I have been so busy catching up on playing with all my toys and playing with my friends.
On Monday I went to Ella's house and we went all over her house on our little push bikes and then we went into her room nad climbed into her cot and then we took turns lying down and putting the blankets on us. Mummy and Jo (Ella's Mummy) found us and they thought it was funny, I am not sure why though.
On Wednesday Mummy and I went to the airport to pick Daddy up again. I was very happy to see him and just yelled out "daddy" all the way home. Also, on the way home, we stopped at the shops and I sat in the trolley while Daddy pushed me and I just yelled out "Daddy, dad, dad, daddy" over and over until Daddy had to explain to the other shoppers that he had been away and I was just very happy to see him again. I like it when daddy comes shopping because he knows how to push the trolley fast and turn it really fast around and around in circles, it is so much fun, but if Mummy catches him doing this she tells him off because it is not appropriate (wow, what a big word) behaviour and people are looking at us.....
Today, I am sad again as we had to take him back to the airport as he had to go back to work. All the way home, I stared out the window and said, "Bye bye daddy" until we got home. I am going to really miss him again as he is so funny and always makes me giggle!
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
Well, once again Mummy does not understand where the time goes as she says that everytime she updates my diary for me and realises it has been a while since my last entry!!!! Mummy said that before we know it, we will be in Canada visiting all my Canadian realtives. We are going to go a big huge aeroplane, just like the ones I have seen Daddy come from. I am so excited as Mummy and Daddy tell me that I am probably going to be getting very spoilt with lots of attention and I just love attention. Mummy and Daddy have been showing me the photos of all my relatives and I have been practising to say their names. So far I am not very good at any of them although I do know how to say "Della" as that is close to my bestest friend in the whole worlds name as her name is Ella!!!!
Have I told you how much I love the movie "Finding Nemo". It is the only thing I like to watch on the television and I could watch it over and over again if I had my way....which I try very hard at getting all the time!!!! I also have a book about Nemo and Mummy reads it to me as well and I love it so much.
I have a cold at the moment and a very runny nose but I am very good at wiping my own nose as I am getting to be so big now. I can also eat soup from a spoon all by myself and I hardly spill any.
Today Ella is coming over to play and Mummy said we might do some finger pianting but she's not sure because the last time we did fnger painting, I was trying to eat the paint and Mummy said that was not a very clever thing to do and that, besides it tastes yucky. She said I was very lucky that it was child proof paint so therefore I won't get sick but it is still a silly thing to do. Oh well, Mummy's and Daddy's are alsways so right, aren't they!!!!
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
Mummy is finding it so much harder to find time to write my diary for me as I have been keeping her so busy. I am such a busy little bee and constantly walking around and playing with whatever takes my fancy. I really like playing with little stones and different containers, dont ask me why but putting the stones in one container and then tipping them into another container is just so much fun!!!! I really dont like it when Mummy goes off and does her playing....like when she sweeps the floor, washes dishes, hangs out clothes and I especially do not like the loud thing she uses to clean the carpets.....it makes me cry and I am scared of it. I don't know why Mummy likes to do these things but I usually follow her around and stand at her feet until she stops doing them and plays with me again.
My Daddy came home on Wednesday and we went to the airport again to pick him up and I was so excited when I saw him I ran straight to him saying "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy"!!! We have been playing a lot and he lets me climb all over him and jump on him way more than Mummy lets me jump on her...(but daddy's are a lot tougher I think!!!) we also went to the Zoo. Now, this is a very interestiing place. All the animals in my picture books all came to life and they were real. I am not sure what I think about that because the elephant sure was very big in real life. I also saw a tiger, orangatang (this looks like a really big monkey), giraffes, zebra's and lots more. Although, my favourite thing to look at were the babies in their prams being wheeled around by their Mummy's and Daddy's. Daddy told Mummy in the car on the way home that I seemed to be more interested in the other kids and that we could of saved some money and just gone to the mall to look at screaming children . Now that sounds like a great idea daddy!!!!!!
I am now 18 and a bit months old and next week I have to have my check up with the Health nurse. I am sure she will tell Mummy that I am so incredibly advanced for my age...(like last visit!!!). I know where all the parts of the body are and I can count up to 3 things...in fact I can count 6 things but I just say 1, 2, 3 twice. I can say please, no more, all gone, there it is, car, dog, apple, juice, and so many more words. I can even brush my own hair, although not very well!!!
I will let you know all anout my check up next week.
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
Well, happy belated easter everybody!!!!! I am so sorry that I have not been keeping you informed of my many adventures but my Mummy has been very busy as well just trying to keep up with me, let alone type my diary for me!!! Daddy has had to go away to work again, but he will be home in 4 more days and I am already getting excited about seeing him again. I have had my second Easter and Mummy and I went to Margaret River with Nanny, Grandpa, Aunty Jane, Aunty Emily, Uncle Carl, Great Aunty Valerie and Great Uncle John. It was so much fun and I really loved always having someone available to entertain me. My favourite thing was to walk around the property and explore the forest. For all my Canadian relatives, Margaret River is 3 hours south of Perth and a very popular holiday town and we stayed in Aunty Valerie and Uncle Johns beautiful house and there are so many trees all around and lots of lovely gravel stones for me to play with. I was so sad that Daddy couldn't come with us this time but I was kept so busy anyway. I was such a good girl and I even enjoyed the car ride down and didn't complain too much but luckily Mummy sat in the back and was able to read me lots of stories on the way.
Mummy also had a great time because my Nanny and Grandpa and my lovely Aunties are always so happy to look after me. On Saturday and Monday, Mummy took me for a 10 kilometre walk which was great fun because all the way I pointed things out to Mummy. Well, the things I know how to say....cow, horse, car, tree. Mummy was most impressed with my knowledge but this really wore me out so I had a sleep in my pram. On Easter Sunday I went to Church and was most impressed with all the things I can do in church. I can walk from one end of the seat and back and I have so many people to stare at especially behind us. I was a very good girl in Church but I didn't want to sing the last song...(I found the singing fascinating......also Grandpa has such a loud voice that I haven't really noticed before!!!!) so I walked down the aisle and Mummy had to follow me and lots of people smiled at me and told Mummy how cute I was!!! I had a hot cross bun for breakfast and I also had a little Easter Egg.......mmmmmm ....yum, yum!!
I have to go to bed now so I will tell you more later,
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxxxx

Bonjour,
Mummy and Daddy told me today that I have been a really good girl lately. What do they mean ...lately??? I think I have been one my whole life!! Also, they are very impressed with the amount of words I can say now! Soon I will be talking just as much as them...(although, I am not sure how I will get a word in!!) Yesterday Mummy and I went to buy groceries and usually after sitting in the trolley for 2 minutes I feel like climbing out, but yesterday I was quite happy sitting and watching all the action that was taking place in our local supermarket and there were lots of little people like me to stare at as well. Anyway, when we finished shopping and were waiting at the place where mummy hands daddy's hard earned money, I looked at mummy and said..."Good girl"!!!! I said that because I had sat in the trolley the whole time without mummy having to make me sit down a hundred times and I knew that that was very good but maybe mummy had forgot to tell me....so I reminded her!!!
We went to the beach yesterday as it was the hottest day I have ever experienced in my whole life...(I think), it was 42 degrees which is very very hot. We stayed at the beach until 6.15pm which is the time I usually have had my bath by and am almost ready for bed and even when we came home I swam in my pool a bit as well. It was great fun at the beach and mummy made me lots f sand castles but I kept knocking them over. I went to bed a little bit later but it was still hard to fall alseep even with my fan on me.
Bye bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
I am so happy!! Daddy came home and Mummy and I went to the airport to get him from the big bird that came out of the sky......one minute it was very little and then it was very big and landed....right in front of Mummy and I!!! Then Daddy came off....he was the last person to come off and I was getting worried that he wasn't coming after all!! I like going to the airport, there are so many stairs to climb. When we got there, Mummy said the plane was late so then I got to climb up and down stairs until it was me who didn't want to do it anymore, not because Mummy said I had to stop, which is usually what happens.
So I gave Daddy a cuddle straight away and then all the way home I stared at him while he drove the car. When we got home I had baked beans for dinner...yum yum, then Daddy gave me a bath and it is so fun when he plays in the bath with me because he lets me tip my bucket of water on the floor and make as much mess as I want. Mummy said the reason for this is because he is not the one that has to clean it up and also he is also really good at making messes and she is really use to it and that when I am bigger tipping water all over the floor will be not be as much fun as it use to be so she is OK with it ......for now!!!
The the next day when I woke up I remembered that Daddy was home and so I called for him to come and get me from my cot, and I was so excited to see him again. Daddy took me out for breakfast in Leederville (while Mummy went to the gym) and we had boiled eggs and toast and all the girls in the cafe kept coming over to tell Daddy how cute I am ........ I was being on my best behaviour, then after that we went to a very big park (Hyde Park) and I chased after the ducks and kept yelling, "cack, cack" at them, because that is what they kept saying to me. I also fed the ducks some of my toast crumbs. It was so much fun but when I got home I was really happy to see Mummy again as well.
Bye bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
I have been missing my "dada" as he had to go away to work again. It makes me very sad. Sometimes when I see his car I think he is home and I point at it and say "dada" and when the phone rings now I straight away say "daddadadada" because sometimes Mummy lets me listen to the phone and I hear his voice, but I can't see him. I'm still not really sure about the telephone as I can't see where the people are when their voices come out of the phone....it's all a bit confusing really. I do know that I really dont like it when Mummy is talking on the phone and I try everything to get her attention. Lately I have found that sneaking into my bedroom and pulling open my drawers and then throwing all of my clothes out on to the carpet is a really good way of getting mummy off the phone or another way is going into the kitchen cupboards and pulling all the plastic containers out onto the floor.......
Last night my friend Ella and her Mummy Jo came to our house and we had dinner together and played with Sasha and all of my toys. Mummy made us tuna and pasta mornay with vegetables and Ella loved it as well and she ate all of her us as well. We sat outside on my picnic bench and Sasha sat next to us to see if we were going to leave her any. but we didn't. (Although, don't tell Mummy, but we let Sasha lick our fingers and hands...that made us giggle!!!!) Then we had blueberries and strawberries with yoghurt and we tried to see who could get the messiest face....I think I won!!! After that, we had a bath and then we played a little bit more before Ella had to go home to her bed. It was so much fun, she is my very best friend!!!! So my Daddy is coming home in 2 sleeps (4 sleeps if you count my naps!!!!) and I can't wait to show him how clever I am on the big kids slide at the park as I can climb up the slide all the way to the top by myself.....and then I get to the top and say"one, doo, theeeeee" which means, (1,2,3) and then slide all the way back down......it's the best fun ever.
Bye bye
Love Sophie
xxx