Another Month

[alt_nymphadora]

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!

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[alt_sirius]

I could've sworn last week she was using 'Da' for Remus and 'Pa' for me but you're right, it doesn't seem to have quite settled yet. Then again, I was thinking that the poor kid's got to be the most confused baby on the face of the earth, between you changing your face to amuse her, Remus with all the spells he uses to look like Junius and then there's me. How many of these people does she think are her family?

I guess we're lucky she hasn't decided to be frightened of any of the versions of ourselves she sees on a regular basis.

Still, it's fair amazing what goes on in that little head, innit?

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[alt_alice]

It's hard to believe that Bea will be a year old in a month's time! Goodness.

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.

[alt_hydra]

I didn't know she was so close to being a year old. Has she learnt to make any new faces? How are all the animals doing?

Please tell Mr Ponds that I said Hello, as well.

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Hydra