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alt_nymphadora) wrote2012-04-30 01:49 pm
alt_nymphadora) wrote2012-04-30 01:49 pm
Another Month
Albia is eleven months old today. She's talking like anything, and sometimes we can even tell what she's meaning to say. I'm her old 'Ma', and Junius is her 'Pa', and then there's the sorry old dog who adopted us, and we're pretty sure he's 'Da', though I heard her call one of the stray cats that, too, this week.
She has her own words for nearly everything, but we're not properly sure they stay the same from day to day. At any rate, we've been too dim to learn most of them. We've been trying to teach her that we always say 'Please' when we'd like someone to give us something and 'Ta' when they do.
Junius insists she said 'Ta' back to him Friday night when he handed her the soother she'd dropped, but I think it's just wishful thinking. I saw it all, and what she was really doing when she said it, was giving her soother to the 'Da'. I think she's pretty well decided she likes her thumb better, anyway.
She has a jolly sense of humour. She thinks it's especially clever when old Pa Ponds makes her food zoom around before it settles on her tray. Or when he takes his egg cup at breakfast and wears it as a cap. That always makes her laugh.
And she's all but walking now. She pulls up and then moves around, going from whatever she's got hold of to the next closest thing she can grab onto. She especially likes to ramble along the shelves in the shop, because then whenever she tips over and finds herself sat on the floor, there's always loads of reshelving to be done to help us out!
I can't think what we did before we had her. And she'll be a whole year old next month!
She has her own words for nearly everything, but we're not properly sure they stay the same from day to day. At any rate, we've been too dim to learn most of them. We've been trying to teach her that we always say 'Please' when we'd like someone to give us something and 'Ta' when they do.
Junius insists she said 'Ta' back to him Friday night when he handed her the soother she'd dropped, but I think it's just wishful thinking. I saw it all, and what she was really doing when she said it, was giving her soother to the 'Da'. I think she's pretty well decided she likes her thumb better, anyway.
She has a jolly sense of humour. She thinks it's especially clever when old Pa Ponds makes her food zoom around before it settles on her tray. Or when he takes his egg cup at breakfast and wears it as a cap. That always makes her laugh.
And she's all but walking now. She pulls up and then moves around, going from whatever she's got hold of to the next closest thing she can grab onto. She especially likes to ramble along the shelves in the shop, because then whenever she tips over and finds herself sat on the floor, there's always loads of reshelving to be done to help us out!
I can't think what we did before we had her. And she'll be a whole year old next month!
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I was thinking it might be fun to bring Kevin up for a visit and a proper birthday party for Bea's first next month, if you wouldn't mind the extra company, that is! He already knows one or two birthday songs, because we sing them at least once a month at dinner.
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We had notice today that we're to expect an inspector from the Ministry one day this week to have a look at whether our home and shop will be suitable for a Muggleborn placement.
I think Remus plans to ask if they couldn't tell us more specifically which day and what time, as my schedule at the Ministry means I'm asleep into the afternoon. I don't know whether they'll accommodate us or whether they'll decide we're trying to game the inspection.
At any rate, we're making sure it looks like the Ponds live a normal shopkeeps' life in Doughty Conduit that could only be improved if they were allowed to hire a bit of help from Muggleborn Labour.
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I'm sure we could make it manageable, and have a grand time even we had to put on false names while we were there. It'd most likely be a shorter visit, though.
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