Marie's Web Log

Here I am again. Halloween photos of Amelia coming soon. Her tantrums seem to have calmed down in the past week. The 'quite stair' tactic seems to be working, though I'm not taking it for granted just yet. Last Wednesday she had a major one on the way home from the bus stop, including the classic 'sitting on the sidewalk and screaming and refusing to budge'. Luckily this was in our development where there isn't much traffic, so I walked around the next corner and waited until I heard her footsteps and the screaming and wailing coming closer. According to a programme I saw, you're supposed to put them on the step for a minute for every year of their age, but so far she hasn't needed that long. And she's so cute when she says sorry.

To end on a funnier note, the other week Amelia was playing with her doll Mei Mei and had wrapped her in a scarf and then pulled her out. She started saying, 'Mei Mei being born. She being born.' I was a bit startled, and said - somewhat stupidly - 'Born from where?' And she said, 'From China.'

She has a picture book that shows a baby being born, but I think we have a bit more explaining to do...